Equatorial Guinea vs Kuwait: Per capita CO₂ emissions from flaring

Equatorial Guinea

0.2085 tonnes per person

in 2024

Kuwait

0.2309 tonnes per person

in 2024

Equatorial Guinea rank

20th

Kuwait rank

18th

Per capita CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Kuwait currently reports 0.2309 tonnes per person against 0.2085 tonnes per person in Equatorial Guinea, a difference of 0.0224 tonnes per person.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Equatorial Guinea's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 31 shared years of data; in 1994 it was Equatorial Guinea ahead.

Equatorial Guinea ranks 20th and Kuwait ranks 18th 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.