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

Latvia

-127,994 tonnes

in 2024

Malta

-39,236 tonnes

in 2024

Latvia rank

176th

Malta rank

174th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Malta currently reports -39,236 tonnes against -127,994 tonnes in Latvia, a difference of 88,758 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 21 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Latvia ahead.

Latvia ranks 176th and Malta ranks 174th 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.