Ecuador vs Spain: Share of global CO₂ emissions from flaring

Ecuador

0.7%

in 2024

Spain

0.8%

in 2024

Ecuador rank

23rd

Spain rank

20th

Share of global CO₂ emissions from flaring over time

Spain currently reports 0.8% against 0.7% in Ecuador, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.1 times Ecuador's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 39 shared years of data; in 1986 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 23rd and Spain ranks 20th 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.