Barbados vs Kenya: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Barbados

48,438 tonnes

in 2024

Kenya

39,712 tonnes

in 2024

Barbados rank

102nd

Kenya rank

104th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Barbados currently reports 48,438 tonnes against 39,712 tonnes in Kenya, a difference of 8,726 tonnes.

That makes Barbados's figure about 1.2 times Kenya's.

The two have swapped places 35 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Kenya ahead.

Barbados ranks 102nd and Kenya ranks 104th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions
Unit: tonnes
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 215 places, 23,088 data points, 1751–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual growth in total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in tonnes.