Egypt vs Spain: Methane emissions

Egypt
49.84 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Spain
44.59 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Egypt rank
36th
Spain rank
38th

Methane emissions over time

  • Egypt
  • Spain
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How they compare

Egypt currently reports 49.84 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 44.59 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Spain, a difference of 5.24 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Egypt's figure about 1.1 times Spain's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Spain ahead.

Egypt ranks 36th and Spain ranks 38th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Methane emissions
Unit
tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
Source
Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
199 places, 34,825 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed

Measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.