Australia vs Guyana: Per capita methane emissions

Australia
5.08 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Guyana
4.71 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Australia rank
9th
Guyana rank
10th

Per capita methane emissions over time

  • Australia
  • Guyana
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How they compare

Australia currently reports 5.08 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 4.71 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Guyana, a difference of 0.3704 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.1 times Guyana's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Guyana ahead.

Australia ranks 9th and Guyana ranks 10th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Per capita methane 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

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