Barbados vs French Polynesia: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Barbados

48,438 tonnes

in 2024

French Polynesia

40,367 tonnes

in 2024

Barbados rank

102nd

French Polynesia rank

103rd

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Barbados currently reports 48,438 tonnes against 40,367 tonnes in French Polynesia, a difference of 8,071 tonnes.

That makes Barbados's figure about 1.2 times French Polynesia's.

The two have swapped places 29 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1956 it was French Polynesia ahead.

Barbados ranks 102nd and French Polynesia ranks 103rd of 215 countries.

Indicator: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions
Unit: tonnes
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 215 places, 23,088 data points, 1751–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual growth in total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in tonnes.