Italy vs Spain: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal

Italy

4.80 billion tonnes

in 2024

Spain

4.88 billion tonnes

in 2024

Italy rank

23rd

Spain rank

22nd

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal over time

Spain currently reports 4.88 billion tonnes against 4.80 billion tonnes in Italy, a difference of 79.72 million tonnes.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 165 shared years of data; in 1860 it was Spain ahead.

Italy ranks 23rd and Spain ranks 22nd of 179 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal
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: 179 places, 18,115 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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