Kuwait vs Qatar: Per capita greenhouse gas emissions

Kuwait

34.51 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Qatar

48.95 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Kuwait rank

3rd

Qatar rank

1st

Per capita greenhouse gas emissions over time

Kuwait
Qatar

How they compare

Qatar currently reports 48.95 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 34.51 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Kuwait, a difference of 14.45 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Qatar's figure about 1.4 times Kuwait's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Qatar ahead.

Kuwait ranks 3rd and Qatar ranks 1st 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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in tonnes per person of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.