Kuwait vs Nigeria: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil

Kuwait

2.25 billion tonnes

in 2024

Nigeria

2.01 billion tonnes

in 2024

Kuwait rank

38th

Nigeria rank

41st

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil over time

Kuwait currently reports 2.25 billion tonnes against 2.01 billion tonnes in Nigeria, a difference of 234.56 million tonnes.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Nigeria's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 79 shared years of data; in 1946 it was Kuwait ahead.

Kuwait ranks 38th and Nigeria ranks 41st 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.