Kuwait vs Uruguay: Per capita methane emissions

Kuwait
8.01 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Uruguay
7.37 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Kuwait rank
3rd
Uruguay rank
5th

Per capita methane emissions over time

  • Kuwait
  • Uruguay
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How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 8.01 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 7.37 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Uruguay, a difference of 0.6428 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Uruguay's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Uruguay ahead.

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

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About this data

Indicator
Per capita methane 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

Measured in tonnes per person of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.