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

Nigeria

0.4%

in 2024

Qatar

0.3%

in 2024

Nigeria rank

36th

Qatar rank

38th

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

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

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Qatar's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1949 it was Nigeria ahead.

Nigeria ranks 36th and Qatar ranks 38th 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.