Greece vs Mauritania: Annual CO₂ emissions from flaring

Greece

3,082 tonnes

in 2024

Mauritania

5,302 tonnes

in 2024

Greece rank

97th

Mauritania rank

95th

Annual CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Mauritania currently reports 5,302 tonnes against 3,082 tonnes in Greece, a difference of 2,220 tonnes.

That makes Mauritania's figure about 1.7 times Greece's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1994 it was Greece ahead.

Greece ranks 97th and Mauritania ranks 95th 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.