Cape Verde vs Saint Lucia: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Cape Verde

22,293 tonnes

in 2024

Saint Lucia

19,863 tonnes

in 2024

Cape Verde rank

122nd

Saint Lucia rank

124th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Cape Verde currently reports 22,293 tonnes against 19,863 tonnes in Saint Lucia, a difference of 2,430 tonnes.

That makes Cape Verde's figure about 1.1 times Saint Lucia's.

The two have swapped places 37 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Saint Lucia ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 122nd and Saint Lucia ranks 124th 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.