Ireland vs Latvia: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Ireland

-257,316 tonnes

in 2024

Latvia

-127,994 tonnes

in 2024

Ireland rank

179th

Latvia rank

176th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Latvia currently reports -127,994 tonnes against -257,316 tonnes in Ireland, a difference of 129,322 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 52 times across 109 shared years of data; in 1881 it was Latvia ahead.

Ireland ranks 179th and Latvia ranks 176th of 215 regions.

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.