Greece vs Mauritania: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring

Greece

424,035 tonnes

in 2024

Mauritania

1.01 million tonnes

in 2024

Greece rank

101st

Mauritania rank

100th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Mauritania currently reports 1.01 million tonnes against 424,035 tonnes in Greece, a difference of 589,605 tonnes.

That makes Mauritania's figure about 2.4 times Greece's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 31 shared years of data; in 1994 it was Greece ahead.

Greece ranks 101st and Mauritania ranks 100th 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.