Panama vs Papua New Guinea: Methane emissions

Panama
4.23 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Papua New Guinea
3.82 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Panama rank
134th
Papua New Guinea rank
137th

Methane emissions over time

  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
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How they compare

Panama currently reports 4.23 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 3.82 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 409,120 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Panama's figure about 1.1 times Papua New Guinea's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Papua New Guinea ahead.

Panama ranks 134th 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.