Iraq vs Nigeria: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring

Iraq

946.27 million tonnes

in 2024

Nigeria

1.57 billion tonnes

in 2024

Iraq rank

7th

Nigeria rank

4th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Nigeria currently reports 1.57 billion tonnes against 946.27 million tonnes in Iraq, a difference of 623.41 million tonnes.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.7 times Iraq's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 55 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Iraq ahead.

Iraq ranks 7th and Nigeria ranks 4th 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.