Tonga vs Vanuatu: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil

Tonga

4.92 million tonnes

in 2024

Vanuatu

5.39 million tonnes

in 2024

Tonga rank

201st

Vanuatu rank

199th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil over time

Vanuatu currently reports 5.39 million tonnes against 4.92 million tonnes in Tonga, a difference of 469,570 tonnes.

That makes Vanuatu's figure about 1.1 times Tonga's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 63 shared years of data; in 1962 it was Tonga ahead.

Tonga ranks 201st and Vanuatu ranks 199th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil
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, 21,740 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from oil since the first year of available data, measured in tonnes.