Australia vs Iraq: Annual CO₂ emissions from flaring

Australia

16.26 million tonnes

in 2024

Iraq

34.18 million tonnes

in 2024

Australia rank

7th

Iraq rank

4th

Annual CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Iraq currently reports 34.18 million tonnes against 16.26 million tonnes in Australia, a difference of 17.92 million tonnes.

That makes Iraq's figure about 2.1 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1983 it was Iraq ahead.

Australia ranks 7th and Iraq ranks 4th 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.