Kuwait vs Nigeria: Share of global CO₂ emissions from oil

Kuwait

0.6%

in 2024

Nigeria

0.6%

in 2024

Kuwait rank

27th

Nigeria rank

29th

Share of global CO₂ emissions from oil over time

Kuwait currently reports 0.6% against 0.6% in Nigeria, a difference of 0.0%.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Nigeria's.

The two have swapped places 16 times across 79 shared years of data; in 1946 it was Kuwait ahead.

Kuwait ranks 27th and Nigeria ranks 29th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Share of global CO₂ emissions from oil
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, 20,888 data points, 1855–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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