Qatar vs Uruguay: Per capita methane emissions

Qatar

7.38 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Uruguay

7.37 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Qatar rank

4th

Uruguay rank

5th

Per capita methane emissions over time

Qatar
Uruguay

How they compare

Qatar currently reports 7.38 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 7.37 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Uruguay, a difference of 0.0105 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Uruguay ahead.

Qatar ranks 4th 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: 07 August 2026

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