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Per capita nitrous oxide in Tuvalu

Tuvalu: Per capita nitrous oxide was 0.1439 in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
0.1439
Change on year
up 1.2%
World rank
168th
of 201 countries
All-time high
0.1439
in 2024
All-time low
0.0271
in 1850
Years of data
175
1850–2024

Per capita nitrous oxide in Tuvalu, 1850–2024

0.0250.050.0750.10.1250.15185019372024

Source: Our World in Data.

Analysis

Tuvalu recorded 0.1439 for per capita nitrous oxide in 2024. That is the highest value across all 175 years on record.

That represents a change of up 1.2% on the previous year and up 18.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, per capita nitrous oxide in Tuvalu peaked at 0.1439 in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.0271, in 1850.

That places Tuvalu 168th out of 201 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 175 years of available data.

Per capita nitrous oxide in Tuvalu, year by year

Year Value Change
1850 0.0271 —
1851 0.0276 +1.6%
1852 0.028 +1.5%
1853 0.0284 +1.4%
1854 0.0287 +1.2%
1855 0.029 +1.0%
1856 0.0292 +0.8%
1857 0.0294 +0.7%
1858 0.0296 +0.4%
1859 0.0296 +0.1%
1860 0.0296 -0.1%
1861 0.0295 -0.3%
1862 0.0294 -0.4%
1863 0.0292 -0.4%
1864 0.0291 -0.4%
1865 0.029 -0.5%
1866 0.0289 -0.4%
1867 0.0287 -0.4%
1868 0.0286 -0.4%
1869 0.0285 -0.4%
1870 0.0284 -0.3%
1871 0.0288 +1.2%
1872 0.0298 +3.6%
1873 0.0314 +5.3%
1874 0.0334 +6.2%
1875 0.0355 +6.5%
1876 0.0377 +6.1%
1877 0.0398 +5.4%
1878 0.0415 +4.4%
1879 0.0428 +3.2%
1880 0.0435 +1.7%
1881 0.0438 +0.7%
1882 0.044 +0.5%
1883 0.0442 +0.3%
1884 0.0443 +0.2%
1885 0.0443 +0.1%
1886 0.0444 +0.1%
1887 0.0444 +0.1%
1888 0.0445 +0.1%
1889 0.0445 +0.2%
1890 0.0492 +10.4%
1891 0.0468 -4.7%
1892 0.0448 -4.3%
1893 0.0431 -3.9%
1894 0.0416 -3.5%
1895 0.0403 -3.0%
1896 0.0393 -2.5%
1897 0.0385 -2.0%
1898 0.0379 -1.5%
1899 0.0375 -1.1%
1900 0.0373 -0.6%
1901 0.0375 +0.5%
1902 0.0382 +2.0%
1903 0.0393 +3.0%
1904 0.0408 +3.7%
1905 0.0424 +4.0%
1906 0.0441 +4.0%
1907 0.0457 +3.6%
1908 0.0472 +3.1%
1909 0.0483 +2.4%
1910 0.0489 +1.4%
1911 0.0493 +0.8%
1912 0.0496 +0.6%
1913 0.0499 +0.5%
1914 0.05 +0.3%
1915 0.0502 +0.3%
1916 0.0503 +0.3%
1917 0.0504 +0.3%
1918 0.0506 +0.3%
1919 0.0508 +0.4%
1920 0.051 +0.5%
1921 0.0514 +0.7%
1922 0.0518 +0.9%
1923 0.0524 +1.0%
1924 0.0529 +1.1%
1925 0.0535 +1.0%
1926 0.054 +0.9%
1927 0.0544 +0.8%
1928 0.0547 +0.5%
1929 0.0548 +0.2%
1930 0.0547 -0.2%
1931 0.0544 -0.4%
1932 0.0541 -0.5%
1933 0.0539 -0.5%
1934 0.0536 -0.5%
1935 0.0533 -0.5%
1936 0.053 -0.5%
1937 0.0528 -0.5%
1938 0.0526 -0.4%
1939 0.0524 -0.3%
1940 0.0523 -0.2%
1941 0.0531 +1.5%
1942 0.0553 +4.1%
1943 0.0585 +5.9%
1944 0.0625 +6.8%
1945 0.067 +7.1%
1946 0.0715 +6.8%
1947 0.0758 +6.1%
1948 0.0796 +5.0%
1949 0.0825 +3.6%
1950 0.0832 +0.9%
1951 0.0821 -1.4%
1952 0.0817 -0.5%
1953 0.0813 -0.4%
1954 0.0816 +0.3%
1955 0.0822 +0.8%
1956 0.0833 +1.3%
1957 0.0844 +1.3%
1958 0.0852 +1.0%
1959 0.0862 +1.1%
1960 0.0874 +1.4%
1961 0.0874 -0.1%
1962 0.0873 -0.1%
1963 0.0875 +0.2%
1964 0.0887 +1.3%
1965 0.0905 +2.1%
1966 0.0921 +1.8%
1967 0.0938 +1.8%
1968 0.0953 +1.6%
1969 0.0959 +0.6%
1970 0.0951 -0.8%
1971 0.0951 -0.0%
1972 0.0953 +0.2%
1973 0.0957 +0.5%
1974 0.0937 -2.1%
1975 0.0895 -4.4%
1976 0.0857 -4.3%
1977 0.0864 +0.8%
1978 0.0832 -3.7%
1979 0.0808 -2.9%
1980 0.0864 +6.9%
1981 0.0811 -6.1%
1982 0.0905 +11.5%
1983 0.0857 -5.2%
1984 0.0984 +14.8%
1985 0.1036 +5.3%
1986 0.1049 +1.3%
1987 0.0933 -11.0%
1988 0.0918 -1.6%
1989 0.1187 +29.2%
1990 0.1169 -1.5%
1991 0.1274 +9.0%
1992 0.1289 +1.2%
1993 0.1247 -3.2%
1994 0.1236 -0.9%
1995 0.1227 -0.7%
1996 0.1247 +1.7%
1997 0.1239 -0.7%
1998 0.1233 -0.5%
1999 0.1285 +4.1%
2000 0.1278 -0.5%
2001 0.1274 -0.3%
2002 0.1299 +2.0%
2003 0.1293 -0.5%
2004 0.1279 -1.1%
2005 0.1264 -1.1%
2006 0.1253 -0.9%
2007 0.1239 -1.1%
2008 0.1251 +1.0%
2009 0.1263 +1.0%
2010 0.1221 -3.4%
2011 0.1204 -1.4%
2012 0.1213 +0.8%
2013 0.1208 -0.4%
2014 0.1212 +0.3%
2015 0.1215 +0.3%
2016 0.1221 +0.4%
2017 0.1228 +0.6%
2018 0.1269 +3.3%
2019 0.1319 +4.0%
2020 0.1346 +2.0%
2021 0.1357 +0.8%
2022 0.1388 +2.3%
2023 0.1422 +2.5%
2024 0.1439 +1.2%

Tuvalu compared with similar countries

  • Tuvalu's 0.1439 is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 0.2628, 55% of the median. (58 countries reporting)
  • Tuvalu's 0.1439 is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 0.2323, 62% of the median. (32 countries reporting)

Biggest year-on-year movements

Years where Per capita nitrous oxide in Tuvalu changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.

YearChange FromTo
1989 +29.2% 0.0918 0.1187

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1850s 0.0287 0.0271 0.0296 10
1860s 0.029 0.0285 0.0296 10
1870s 0.0349 0.0284 0.0428 10
1880s 0.0442 0.0435 0.0445 10
1890s 0.0419 0.0375 0.0492 10
1900s 0.0421 0.0373 0.0483 10
1910s 0.05 0.0489 0.0508 10
1920s 0.0531 0.051 0.0548 10
1930s 0.0535 0.0524 0.0547 10
1940s 0.0658 0.0523 0.0825 10
1950s 0.0831 0.0813 0.0862 10
1960s 0.0906 0.0873 0.0959 10
1970s 0.09 0.0808 0.0957 10
1980s 0.0955 0.0811 0.1187 10
1990s 0.1245 0.1169 0.1289 10
2000s 0.1269 0.1239 0.1299 10
2010s 0.1231 0.1204 0.1319 10
2020s 0.139 0.1346 0.1439 5

Countries ranked near Tuvalu

  1. 165 El Salvador 0.1454 compare
  2. 166 Japan 0.1452 compare
  3. 167 Micronesia (country) 0.1446 compare
  4. 169 Haiti 0.1383 compare
  5. 170 Antigua and Barbuda 0.1342 compare
  6. 171 Bahrain 0.1329 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is per capita nitrous oxide in Tuvalu?
Per capita nitrous oxide in Tuvalu was 0.1439 in 2024, according to Our World in Data.
What is the highest per capita nitrous oxide recorded in Tuvalu?
The highest recorded value was 0.1439 in 2024.
What is the lowest per capita nitrous oxide recorded in Tuvalu?
The lowest recorded value was 0.0271 in 1850.
How does Tuvalu rank for per capita nitrous oxide?
Tuvalu ranks 168th out of 201 countries with data for 2024.
Is per capita nitrous oxide rising or falling in Tuvalu?
Over the last ten years it is up 18.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Tuvalu data come from?
The figures come from Our World in Data, published as part of Per capita nitrous oxide. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Per capita nitrous oxide
Source
Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
201 places, 34,339 data points, 1850–2024
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