Iraq vs Nigeria: Share of global CO₂ emissions from cement

Iraq

0.9%

in 2024

Nigeria

0.7%

in 2024

Iraq rank

18th

Nigeria rank

20th

Share of global CO₂ emissions from cement over time

Iraq currently reports 0.9% against 0.7% in Nigeria, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes Iraq's figure about 1.2 times Nigeria's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 98 shared years of data; in 1927 it was Nigeria ahead.

Iraq ranks 18th and Nigeria ranks 20th of 211 countries.

Indicator: Share of global CO₂ emissions from cement
Unit: %
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 211 places, 19,494 data points, 1880–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from cement, measured as a percentage of global emissions of CO₂ from cement in the same year.