Kiribati vs Nauru: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Kiribati
0.0551 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Nauru
0.0485 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Kiribati rank
195th
Nauru rank
196th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

  • Kiribati
  • Nauru
0.010.020.030.040.050.06185019372024

How they compare

Kiribati currently reports 0.0551 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.0485 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Nauru, a difference of 0.0066 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Kiribati's figure about 1.1 times Nauru's.

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

Kiribati ranks 195th and Nauru ranks 196th of 201 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Per capita nitrous oxide emissions
Unit
tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
Source
Jones et al. (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
201 places, 34,339 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed

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