Kuwait vs Qatar: Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change

Kuwait

9,929 tonnes

in 2024

Qatar

22,570 tonnes

in 2024

Kuwait rank

118th

Qatar rank

116th

Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change over time

Qatar currently reports 22,570 tonnes against 9,929 tonnes in Kuwait, a difference of 12,641 tonnes.

That makes Qatar's figure about 2.3 times Kuwait's.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Qatar ahead.

Kuwait ranks 118th and Qatar ranks 116th of 197 countries.

Indicator: Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change
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: 197 places, 34,475 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from land-use change, measured in tonnes.