Australia vs Iraq: Share of global CO₂ emissions from flaring

Australia

3.9%

in 2024

Iraq

8.2%

in 2024

Australia rank

7th

Iraq rank

4th

Share of global CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Iraq currently reports 8.2% against 3.9% in Australia, a difference of 4.3%.

That makes Iraq's figure about 2.1 times Australia's.

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

Australia ranks 7th and Iraq ranks 4th of 215 countries.

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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