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

French Polynesia

40,367 tonnes

in 2024

Sierra Leone

53,848 tonnes

in 2024

French Polynesia rank

103rd

Sierra Leone rank

101st

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Sierra Leone currently reports 53,848 tonnes against 40,367 tonnes in French Polynesia, a difference of 13,481 tonnes.

That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.3 times French Polynesia's.

The two have swapped places 35 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1956 it was French Polynesia ahead.

French Polynesia ranks 103rd and Sierra Leone ranks 101st 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.