Rwanda vs Samoa: Per capita greenhouse gas emissions

Rwanda

0.6815 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Samoa

0.7139 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Rwanda rank

198th

Samoa rank

196th

Per capita greenhouse gas emissions over time

Rwanda
Samoa

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 0.7139 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.6815 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Rwanda, a difference of 0.0324 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Samoa ahead.

Rwanda ranks 198th and Samoa ranks 196th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Per capita greenhouse gas emissions
Unit: tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
Source: Jones et al. (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 199 places, 34,079 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in tonnes per person of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.