Cook Islands vs Samoa: Greenhouse gas emissions

Cook Islands
88,295 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Samoa
155,648 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Cook Islands rank
195th
Samoa rank
192nd

Greenhouse gas emissions over time

  • Cook Islands
  • Samoa
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How they compare

Samoa currently reports 155,648 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 88,295 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Cook Islands, a difference of 67,353 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Samoa's figure about 1.8 times Cook Islands's.

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

Cook Islands ranks 195th and Samoa ranks 192nd of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Greenhouse gas 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

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