Spain vs Vietnam: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal

Spain

4.88 billion tonnes

in 2024

Vietnam

2.87 billion tonnes

in 2024

Spain rank

22nd

Vietnam rank

25th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal over time

Spain currently reports 4.88 billion tonnes against 2.87 billion tonnes in Vietnam, a difference of 2.01 billion tonnes.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.7 times Vietnam's.

Across all 133 years both countries report, Spain has been ahead every year.

Spain ranks 22nd and Vietnam ranks 25th 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.