Brazil vs Indonesia: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring

Brazil

507.68 million tonnes

in 2024

Indonesia

429.70 million tonnes

in 2024

Brazil rank

11th

Indonesia rank

14th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Brazil currently reports 507.68 million tonnes against 429.70 million tonnes in Indonesia, a difference of 77.98 million tonnes.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.2 times Indonesia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Brazil ahead.

Brazil ranks 11th and Indonesia ranks 14th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring
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, 12,483 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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