Countries

Tonga

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry produced in Tonga (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
0.147 million tonnes
Per person
1.40 tonnes
Per unit of GDP
Not published

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

In 2024, the latest year with a total, Tonga emitted 0.153 million tonnes.

The trend

CO2 emissions, Tonga, 1950 to 2024

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry in Tonga was 0.153 million tonnes in 2024, 89% more than in 1990. The highest yearly total between 1950 and 2024 was 0.161 million tonnes, in 2019.

Show the data as a table
Every fifth year and the latest
YearMillion tonnes
19500.00733
19550.00733
19600.011
19650.011
19700.0256
19750.033
19800.0403
19850.0476
19900.0806
19950.0953
20000.0989
20050.114
20100.117
20150.106
20200.139
20240.153

By source, 2022

OWID splits CO2 by the fuel or process it comes from, not by economic sector. The published parts add up to 0.147 million tonnes of the 0.147 million tonne total.

CO2 by source, Tonga, 2022, million tonnes
SourceMillion tonnes
Oil0.147
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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