Aruba vs Palau: Methane emissions

Aruba
23,380 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Palau
37,506 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Aruba rank
192nd
Palau rank
189th

Methane emissions over time

  • Aruba
  • Palau
050.0k100.0k150.0k200.0k185019372024

How they compare

Palau currently reports 37,506 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 23,380 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Aruba, a difference of 14,126 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Palau's figure about 1.6 times Aruba's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Aruba ahead.

Aruba ranks 192nd and Palau ranks 189th of 199 countries.

Across the 18 decades both report, Aruba averaged higher in 13 and Palau in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade Aruba Palau Difference Ahead
1850s 770.48 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 579.83 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 190.65 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1860s 1,122 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 656.05 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 465.99 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1870s 1,517 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 735.76 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 781.23 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1880s 1,833 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 835.16 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 997.42 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1890s 2,030 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 927.91 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 1,102 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1900s 1,951 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 962.45 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 988.27 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1910s 2,467 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 976.02 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 1,491 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1920s 5,001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 944.95 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 4,056 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1930s 8,479 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 923.69 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 7,555 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1940s 10,161 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 1,072 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 9,090 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1950s 11,642 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 2,414 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 9,228 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1960s 12,877 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 6,666 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 6,212 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
1970s 14,049 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 137,554 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 123,505 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Palau
1980s 14,813 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 143,340 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 128,526 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Palau
1990s 18,072 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 144,651 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 126,579 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Palau
2000s 69,220 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 63,067 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 6,153 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Aruba
2010s 26,490 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 41,555 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 15,065 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Palau
2020s 23,037 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 37,075 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents 14,038 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents Palau

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher methane emissions, Aruba or Palau?
Palau, at 37,506 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 23,380 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Aruba as of 2024.
What is the difference in methane emissions between Aruba and Palau?
14,126 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents, with Palau ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Aruba and Palau?
175 years are reported by both, from 1850 to 2024.
How do Aruba and Palau rank globally for methane emissions?
Aruba ranks 192nd and Palau ranks 189th of 199 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Methane emissions. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Aruba vs Palau: Methane emissions. Statizoid, drawing on Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Retrieved 23 September 2026, from https://climate.statizoid.com/compare/methane-emissions/aruba/palau/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://climate.statizoid.com/compare/methane-emissions/aruba/palau/">Aruba vs Palau: Methane emissions</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Methane emissions
Unit
tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
Source
Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
199 places, 34,825 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed

Measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.