Brazil vs Iraq: Share of global CO₂ emissions from flaring

Brazil

4.2%

in 2024

Iraq

8.2%

in 2024

Brazil rank

5th

Iraq rank

4th

Share of global CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Iraq currently reports 8.2% against 4.2% in Brazil, a difference of 4.0%.

That makes Iraq's figure about 2.0 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Iraq ahead.

Brazil ranks 5th 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.