Kuwait vs Nigeria: Share of global CO₂ emissions vs. share of population

Kuwait

0.3%

in 2024

Nigeria

0.4%

in 2024

Kuwait rank

37th

Nigeria rank

36th

Share of global CO₂ emissions vs. share of population over time

Nigeria currently reports 0.4% against 0.3% in Kuwait, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 79 shared years of data; in 1946 it was Kuwait ahead.

Kuwait ranks 37th and Nigeria ranks 36th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Share of global CO₂ emissions vs. share of population
Unit: %
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 215 places, 23,408 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured as a percentage of global emissions of CO₂ in the same year.