Papua New Guinea

CO₂ from fossil fuels and industry in Papua New Guinea, 2022.

2022 at a glance

Total: 8.44 million tonnes
Per person: 0.827 tonnes
Per unit of GDP: Not published

Not ranked: no per-GDP figure is published for Papua New Guinea in 2022.

In 2024, the latest year with a total, Papua New Guinea emitted 8.35 million tonnes.

The trend

CO2 emissions, Papua New Guinea, 1950 to 2024

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry in Papua New Guinea was 8.35 million tonnes in 2024, 287% more than in 1990. The highest yearly total between 1950 and 2024 was 8.44 million tonnes, in 2022.

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Every fifth year and the latest
Year	Million tonnes
1950	0.055
1955	0.128
1960	0.18
1965	0.304
1970	0.692
1975	1.53
1980	1.83
1985	2.13
1990	2.15
1995	2.05
2000	2.94
2005	4.98
2010	4.71
2015	6.32
2020	7.91
2024	8.35

By source, 2022

CO2 by source, Papua New Guinea, 2022, million tonnes
Source	Million tonnes
Oil	6.45
Gas	1.82
Cement	0
Gas flaring	0.16

Sources

Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (owid-co2-data.csv): countries from 1950. Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions), based on the Global Carbon Budget (2025), the Maddison Project Database 2023 (Bolt and van Zanden) and OWID's population series. Retrieved 16 October 2026. Terms. Trimmed from the published file.

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