Kiribati vs Nauru: Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage

Kiribati

4.48 million current US$

in 2021

Nauru

2.61 million current US$

in 2021

Kiribati rank

207th

Nauru rank

208th

Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage over time

Kiribati
Nauru

How they compare

Kiribati currently reports 4.48 million current US$ against 2.61 million current US$ in Nauru, a difference of 1.88 million current US$.

That makes Kiribati's figure about 1.7 times Nauru's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 32 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Nauru ahead.

Globally, Kiribati ranks 207th and Nauru ranks 208th of 209 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (current US$)
Unit: current US$
Source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 209 places, 6,864 data points, 1970–2021
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

Cost of damage due to carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use and the manufacture of cement, estimated to be US$40 per ton of CO2 (the unit damage in 2017 US dollars for CO2 emitted in 2020) times the number of tons of CO2 emitted. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.