Guyana vs Papua New Guinea: Methane emissions

Guyana
3.91 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Papua New Guinea
3.82 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Guyana rank
136th
Papua New Guinea rank
137th

Methane emissions over time

  • Guyana
  • Papua New Guinea
02.0M4.0M6.0M185019372024

How they compare

Guyana currently reports 3.91 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 3.82 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 91,070 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Guyana ahead.

Guyana ranks 136th and Papua New Guinea ranks 137th of 199 countries.

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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.