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Barbados vs Jamaica: Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP

Barbados
0.3859 kilograms per international-$
in 2022
Jamaica
0.395 kilograms per international-$
in 2022
Barbados rank
24th
Jamaica rank
22nd

Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP over time

  • Barbados
  • Jamaica
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How they compare

Jamaica currently reports 0.395 kilograms per international-$ against 0.3859 kilograms per international-$ in Barbados, a difference of 0.0091 kilograms per international-$.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 73 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Barbados ahead.

Barbados ranks 24th and Jamaica ranks 22nd of 164 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP
Unit
kilograms per international-$
Source
Global Carbon Budget (2025); Bolt and van Zanden – Maddison Project Database 2023 – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
164 places, 14,672 data points, 1820–2022
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Annual total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in kilograms per dollar of GDP (2011 international-$).