Kuwait vs Qatar: CO₂ emissions per capita

Kuwait

26.25 tonnes per person

in 2024

Qatar

41.27 tonnes per person

in 2024

Kuwait rank

2nd

Qatar rank

1st

CO₂ emissions per capita over time

Kuwait
Qatar

How they compare

Qatar currently reports 41.27 tonnes per person against 26.25 tonnes per person in Kuwait, a difference of 15.02 tonnes per person.

That makes Qatar's figure about 1.6 times Kuwait's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1949 it was Qatar ahead.

Kuwait ranks 2nd and Qatar ranks 1st 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.