Kuwait vs Mongolia: Per capita greenhouse gas emissions

Kuwait
34.51 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Mongolia
28.26 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Kuwait rank
3rd
Mongolia rank
5th

Per capita greenhouse gas emissions over time

  • Kuwait
  • Mongolia
0100200300400185019372024

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 34.51 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 28.26 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Mongolia, a difference of 6.25 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.2 times Mongolia's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Mongolia ahead.

Kuwait ranks 3rd and Mongolia ranks 5th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Per capita greenhouse gas emissions
Unit
tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
Source
Jones et al. (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
199 places, 34,079 data points, 1850–2024
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Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in tonnes per person of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.