Australia vs Congo: Per capita CO₂ emissions from flaring

Australia

0.6086 tonnes per person

in 2024

Congo

0.5747 tonnes per person

in 2024

Australia rank

5th

Congo rank

6th

Per capita CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Australia currently reports 0.6086 tonnes per person against 0.5747 tonnes per person in Congo, a difference of 0.0339 tonnes per person.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.1 times Congo's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 38 shared years of data; in 1983 it was Congo ahead.

Australia ranks 5th and Congo ranks 6th of 213 countries.

Indicator: Per capita CO₂ emissions from flaring
Unit: tonnes per person
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 213 places, 12,147 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from flaring, measured in tonnes per person.