Kuwait vs New Zealand: Methane emissions

Kuwait
39.53 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
New Zealand
34.60 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Kuwait rank
45th
New Zealand rank
48th

Methane emissions over time

  • Kuwait
  • New Zealand
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How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 39.53 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 34.60 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in New Zealand, a difference of 4.93 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times New Zealand's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was New Zealand ahead.

Kuwait ranks 45th and New Zealand ranks 48th 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.