Ecuador vs Spain: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring

Ecuador

88.28 million tonnes

in 2024

Spain

96.27 million tonnes

in 2024

Ecuador rank

38th

Spain rank

36th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Spain currently reports 96.27 million tonnes against 88.28 million tonnes in Ecuador, a difference of 8.00 million tonnes.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.1 times Ecuador's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 39 shared years of data; in 1986 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 38th and Spain ranks 36th 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.