Marshall Islands vs Vanuatu: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Marshall Islands

6,758 tonnes

in 2024

Vanuatu

8,621 tonnes

in 2024

Marshall Islands rank

145th

Vanuatu rank

143rd

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Vanuatu currently reports 8,621 tonnes against 6,758 tonnes in Marshall Islands, a difference of 1,863 tonnes.

That makes Vanuatu's figure about 1.3 times Marshall Islands's.

The two have swapped places 17 times across 32 shared years of data; in 1993 it was Marshall Islands ahead.

Marshall Islands ranks 145th and Vanuatu ranks 143rd 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.