Qatar vs Spain: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Qatar

6.27 million tonnes

in 2024

Spain

4.88 million tonnes

in 2024

Qatar rank

15th

Spain rank

18th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Qatar currently reports 6.27 million tonnes against 4.88 million tonnes in Spain, a difference of 1.39 million tonnes.

That makes Qatar's figure about 1.3 times Spain's.

The two have swapped places 30 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Qatar ahead.

Qatar ranks 15th and Spain ranks 18th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions
Unit: tonnes
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 215 places, 23,088 data points, 1751–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual growth in total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in tonnes.