Tonga vs Vanuatu: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Tonga

6,672 tonnes

in 2024

Vanuatu

8,621 tonnes

in 2024

Tonga rank

146th

Vanuatu rank

143rd

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Vanuatu currently reports 8,621 tonnes against 6,672 tonnes in Tonga, a difference of 1,949 tonnes.

That makes Vanuatu's figure about 1.3 times Tonga's.

The two have swapped places 33 times across 62 shared years of data; in 1963 it was Tonga ahead.

Tonga ranks 146th 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.