Cape Verde vs Maldives: Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change

Cape Verde

2,821 tonnes

in 2024

Maldives

36.64 tonnes

in 2024

Cape Verde rank

119th

Maldives rank

122nd

Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change over time

Cape Verde currently reports 2,821 tonnes against 36.64 tonnes in Maldives, a difference of 2,785 tonnes.

That makes Cape Verde's figure about 77.0 times Maldives's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Cape Verde ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 119th and Maldives ranks 122nd of 197 countries.

Indicator: Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change
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: 197 places, 34,475 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from land-use change, measured in tonnes.