Kuwait vs Qatar: Are consumption-based CO₂ per capita emissions above or below the global average?

Kuwait

25.28 tonnes per person

in 2023

Qatar

27.6 tonnes per person

in 2023

Kuwait rank

4th

Qatar rank

2nd

Are consumption-based CO₂ per capita emissions above or below the global average? over time

Qatar currently reports 27.6 tonnes per person against 25.28 tonnes per person in Kuwait, a difference of 2.32 tonnes per person.

That makes Qatar's figure about 1.1 times Kuwait's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Qatar ahead.

Kuwait ranks 4th and Qatar ranks 2nd of 120 countries.

Indicator: Are consumption-based CO₂ per capita emissions above or below the global average?
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: 120 places, 4,064 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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