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

Palau

9,890 tonnes

in 2024

Samoa

10,742 tonnes

in 2024

Palau rank

139th

Samoa rank

136th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Samoa currently reports 10,742 tonnes against 9,890 tonnes in Palau, a difference of 852 tonnes.

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

The two have swapped places 28 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1956 it was Samoa ahead.

Palau ranks 139th and Samoa ranks 136th 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.