Cook Islands vs Kiribati: Methane emissions

Cook Islands
14,054 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Kiribati
31,000 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Cook Islands rank
193rd
Kiribati rank
190th

Methane emissions over time

  • Cook Islands
  • Kiribati
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How they compare

Kiribati currently reports 31,000 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 14,054 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Cook Islands, a difference of 16,946 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Kiribati's figure about 2.2 times Cook Islands's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Kiribati ahead.

Cook Islands ranks 193rd and Kiribati ranks 190th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Methane emissions
Unit
tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
Source
Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
199 places, 34,825 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed

Measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.