Samoa vs Tuvalu: Per capita methane emissions

Samoa

0.7382 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Tuvalu

0.7257 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Samoa rank

138th

Tuvalu rank

141st

Per capita methane emissions over time

Samoa
Tuvalu

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 0.7382 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.7257 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Tuvalu, a difference of 0.0126 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

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

Samoa ranks 138th and Tuvalu ranks 141st 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: 07 August 2026

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