Libya vs Qatar: Cumulative CO₂ emissions

Libya

2.49 billion tonnes

in 2024

Qatar

2.59 billion tonnes

in 2024

Libya rank

63rd

Qatar rank

62nd

Cumulative CO₂ emissions over time

Qatar currently reports 2.59 billion tonnes against 2.49 billion tonnes in Libya, a difference of 101.00 million tonnes.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Qatar ahead.

Libya ranks 63rd and Qatar ranks 62nd of 215 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative 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: 215 places, 23,408 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Total cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, since the first year of available data, measured in tonnes.