Iceland vs Jamaica: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Iceland

294,776 tonnes

in 2024

Jamaica

332,848 tonnes

in 2024

Iceland rank

61st

Jamaica rank

58th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Jamaica currently reports 332,848 tonnes against 294,776 tonnes in Iceland, a difference of 38,072 tonnes.

That makes Jamaica's figure about 1.1 times Iceland's.

The two have swapped places 44 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Jamaica ahead.

Iceland ranks 61st and Jamaica ranks 58th 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.