Australia vs Brazil: Share of global CO₂ consumption-based emissions

Australia

1.0%

in 2023

Brazil

1.2%

in 2023

Australia rank

18th

Brazil rank

15th

Share of global CO₂ consumption-based emissions over time

Brazil currently reports 1.2% against 1.0% in Australia, a difference of 0.3%.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.3 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 18th and Brazil ranks 15th of 117 countries.

Indicator: Share of global CO₂ consumption-based emissions
Unit: %
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 120 places, 4,064 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual consumption-based emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), measured as a percentage of global consumption-based emissions of CO₂ in the same year.