Greenland vs Samoa: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Greenland
10,008 tonnes
in 2024
Samoa
10,742 tonnes
in 2024
Greenland rank
137th
Samoa rank
136th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

  • Greenland
  • Samoa
-400.0k-200.0k0200.0k400.0k600.0k195119872024

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 10,742 tonnes against 10,008 tonnes in Greenland, a difference of 734 tonnes.

That makes Samoa's figure about 1.1 times Greenland's.

The two have swapped places 46 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Samoa ahead.

Greenland ranks 137th and Samoa ranks 136th of 215 countries.

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About this data

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