Ireland vs Palau: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Ireland

1.65 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Palau

1.7 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Ireland rank

10th

Palau rank

8th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Ireland
Palau

How they compare

Palau currently reports 1.7 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 1.65 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Ireland, a difference of 0.0523 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Ireland ahead.

Ireland ranks 10th and Palau ranks 8th of 201 regions.

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About this data

Indicator: Per capita nitrous oxide 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: 201 places, 34,339 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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