Brunei vs Kuwait: CO₂ emissions per capita

Brunei

26.05 tonnes per person

in 2024

Kuwait

26.25 tonnes per person

in 2024

Brunei rank

3rd

Kuwait rank

2nd

CO₂ emissions per capita over time

Brunei
Kuwait

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 26.25 tonnes per person against 26.05 tonnes per person in Brunei, a difference of 0.2013 tonnes per person.

The two have swapped places 15 times across 79 shared years of data; in 1946 it was Brunei ahead.

Brunei ranks 3rd and Kuwait ranks 2nd of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: CO₂ emissions per capita
Unit: tonnes per person
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 213 places, 22,945 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from burning fossil fuels and industrial processes. This includes emissions from transport, electricity generation, and heating, but not land-use change.