Kiribati vs Nauru: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Kiribati

3,169 tonnes

in 2024

Nauru

2,685 tonnes

in 2024

Kiribati rank

155th

Nauru rank

156th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Kiribati currently reports 3,169 tonnes against 2,685 tonnes in Nauru, a difference of 484 tonnes.

That makes Kiribati's figure about 1.2 times Nauru's.

The two have swapped places 23 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Nauru ahead.

Kiribati ranks 155th and Nauru ranks 156th 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.