Algeria vs Australia: Annual CO₂ emissions from flaring

Algeria

14.82 million tonnes

in 2024

Australia

16.26 million tonnes

in 2024

Algeria rank

9th

Australia rank

7th

Annual CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Australia currently reports 16.26 million tonnes against 14.82 million tonnes in Algeria, a difference of 1.44 million tonnes.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.1 times Algeria's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1983 it was Algeria ahead.

Algeria ranks 9th and Australia ranks 7th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Annual CO₂ emissions from flaring
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, 12,483 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from flaring, measured in tonnes.