Countries in Africa by co₂ per person

Countries in Africa by co₂ per person, World Bank, 2024

#	Country	t per person	Region
1	Libya	8.66	Northern Africa
2	Seychelles	7.24	Eastern Africa
3	South Africa	6.88	Southern Africa
4	Algeria	3.98	Northern Africa
5	Mauritius	3.54	Eastern Africa
6	Botswana	2.74	Southern Africa
7	Tunisia	2.62	Northern Africa
8	Equatorial Guinea	2.55	Middle Africa
9	Egypt	2.50	Northern Africa
10	Gabon	2.05	Middle Africa
11	Morocco	1.84	Northern Africa
12	Congo	1.34	Middle Africa
13	Cabo Verde	1.29	Western Africa
14	Namibia	1.20	Southern Africa
15	Mauritania	0.97	Western Africa
16	Eswatini	0.88	Southern Africa
=17	Djibouti	0.77	Eastern Africa
=17	Senegal	0.77	Western Africa
=17	Zimbabwe	0.77	Eastern Africa
20	Angola	0.74	Middle Africa
21	Ghana	0.70	Western Africa
22	São Tomé and Principe	0.63	Middle Africa
23	Côte d'Ivoire	0.59	Western Africa
24	Nigeria	0.57	Western Africa
25	Zambia	0.54	Eastern Africa
26	Comoros	0.51	Eastern Africa
27	Benin	0.49	Western Africa
=28	Lesotho	0.43	Southern Africa
=28	Sudan	0.43	Northern Africa
30	Kenya	0.38	Eastern Africa
=31	Cameroon	0.35	Middle Africa
=31	Guinea	0.35	Western Africa
=33	Tanzania	0.31	Eastern Africa
=33	Togo	0.31	Western Africa
35	Mali	0.30	Western Africa
36	Mozambique	0.29	Eastern Africa
37	Burkina Faso	0.27	Western Africa
=38	Eritrea	0.22	Eastern Africa
=38	Malawi	0.22	Eastern Africa
40	Gambia	0.18	Western Africa
=41	Sierra Leone	0.17	Western Africa
=41	Uganda	0.17	Eastern Africa
=43	Guinea-Bissau	0.16	Western Africa
=43	Rwanda	0.16	Eastern Africa
=45	Ethiopia	0.15	Eastern Africa
=45	Liberia	0.15	Western Africa
=45	Madagascar	0.15	Eastern Africa
48	Chad	0.14	Middle Africa
49	Niger	0.12	Western Africa
50	Burundi	0.07	Eastern Africa
=51	Central African Republic	0.06	Middle Africa
=51	DR Congo	0.06	Middle Africa
53	Somalia	0.05	Eastern Africa

No World Bank figure for South Sudan.

Questions

Which country in Africa has the highest CO₂ emissions per person?

Libya has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in Africa: 8.66 tonnes a person (2024). Next come the Seychelles (7.24 tonnes a person) and South Africa (6.88 tonnes a person).

Which country in Africa has the lowest CO₂ emissions per person?

Somalia, with 0.05 tonnes a person (2024).

What is the typical co₂ per person of a country in Africa?

The median of the 53 countries in Africa is 0.49 tonnes a person: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Carbon dioxide emitted in a year, divided by the population: fossil fuels and industry, without land use change and forestry. Source: World Bank, 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.