Japan vs Sweden: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring

Japan

17.19 million tonnes

in 2024

Sweden

17.12 million tonnes

in 2024

Japan rank

59th

Sweden rank

60th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Japan currently reports 17.19 million tonnes against 17.12 million tonnes in Sweden, a difference of 72,500 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 35 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 59th and Sweden ranks 60th 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.