Kuwait vs Qatar: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement

Kuwait

40.60 million tonnes

in 2024

Qatar

45.67 million tonnes

in 2024

Kuwait rank

78th

Qatar rank

76th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement over time

Qatar currently reports 45.67 million tonnes against 40.60 million tonnes in Kuwait, a difference of 5.07 million tonnes.

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

The two have swapped places 2 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1949 it was Qatar ahead.

Kuwait ranks 78th and Qatar ranks 76th of 211 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement
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: 211 places, 24,035 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from cement since the first year of available data, measured in tonnes.