France vs Qatar: Annual CO₂ emissions from flaring

France

1.66 million tonnes

in 2024

Qatar

1.74 million tonnes

in 2024

France rank

34th

Qatar rank

32nd

Annual CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Qatar currently reports 1.74 million tonnes against 1.66 million tonnes in France, a difference of 84,660 tonnes.

That makes Qatar's figure about 1.1 times France's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 43 shared years of data; in 1971 it was Qatar ahead.

France ranks 34th and Qatar ranks 32nd 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.