Australia vs Brazil: Consumption-based CO₂ emissions

Australia

372.15 million tonnes

in 2023

Brazil

469.99 million tonnes

in 2023

Australia rank

18th

Brazil rank

15th

Consumption-based CO₂ emissions over time

Brazil currently reports 469.99 million tonnes against 372.15 million tonnes in Australia, a difference of 97.84 million tonnes.

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 120 countries.

Indicator: Consumption-based CO₂ emissions
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: 121 places, 4,098 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual consumption-based emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), measured in tonnes.