Australia vs Spain: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil

Australia

6.42 billion tonnes

in 2024

Spain

8.04 billion tonnes

in 2024

Australia rank

19th

Spain rank

16th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil over time

Spain currently reports 8.04 billion tonnes against 6.42 billion tonnes in Australia, a difference of 1.62 billion tonnes.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.3 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 195 shared years of data; in 1830 it was Spain ahead.

Australia ranks 19th and Spain ranks 16th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil
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, 21,740 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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