Countries

Nauru

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry produced in Nauru (territorial emissions; land-use change is not included). The figures below are for 2022, the latest year with total, per-person and per-GDP figures for at least 150 countries.

2022 at a glance

Total
0.059 million tonnes
Per person
4.99 tonnes
Per unit of GDP
Not published

Not ranked: the snapshot has no per-GDP figure for Nauru in 2022, so it is outside the 164 countries compared.

In 2024, the latest year with a total, Nauru emitted 0.0614 million tonnes.

The trend

CO2 emissions, Nauru, 1964 to 2024

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry in Nauru was 0.0614 million tonnes in 2024, 51% less than in 1990. The highest yearly total between 1964 and 2024 was 0.161 million tonnes, in 1986.

Show the data as a table
Every fifth year and the latest
YearMillion tonnes
19650.033
19700.066
19750.103
19800.125
19850.125
19900.125
19950.106
20000.0879
20050.0623
20100.044
20150.055
20200.055
20240.0614

By source, 2022

OWID splits CO2 by the fuel or process it comes from, not by economic sector. The published parts add up to 0.059 million tonnes of the 0.059 million tonne total.

CO2 by source, Nauru, 2022, million tonnes
SourceMillion tonnes
Oil0.059
Cement0
Gas flaring0

Sources and licences

  • Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (owid-co2-data.csv): countries from 1950. Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions), based on the Global Carbon Budget (2025), the Maddison Project Database 2023 (Bolt and van Zanden) and OWID's population series. Retrieved 16 October 2026. CC BY 4.0 for Our World in Data's own work; data produced by third parties keeps its source's terms (OWID's co2-data README). CO2: Global Carbon Budget (2025); GDP: Maddison Project Database 2023; population: OWID's population series. Terms, full data file. Changes: Countries only (rows with a three-letter ISO code), years from 1950, and the columns iso_code, country, year, population, co2, co2_per_capita, co2_per_gdp and the CO2 by source (coal, oil, gas, cement, flaring, other industry); values and row order as published; LF line endings.

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