Australia vs Brazil: Share of global CO₂ emissions from flaring

Australia
3.9%
in 2024
Brazil
4.2%
in 2024
Australia rank
7th
Brazil rank
5th

Share of global CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

  • Australia
  • Brazil
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How they compare

Brazil currently reports 4.2% against 3.9% in Australia, a difference of 0.3%.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1983 it was Brazil ahead.

Australia ranks 7th and Brazil ranks 5th of 215 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Share of global CO₂ emissions from flaring
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, 9,653 data points, 1950–2024
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Annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from flaring, measured as a percentage of global emissions of CO₂ from flaring in the same year.