Palau vs Uruguay: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Palau

1.7 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Uruguay

2.23 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Palau rank

8th

Uruguay rank

5th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Palau
Uruguay

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 2.23 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 1.7 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Palau, a difference of 0.5323 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.3 times Palau's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Uruguay ahead.

Palau ranks 8th and Uruguay ranks 5th of 201 countries.

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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.