Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring, per square kilometre by country
Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Countries reporting
120
Highest
20,949 tonnes per square kilometre
Trinidad and Tobago
Lowest
0.0095 tonnes per square kilometre
Ethiopia
Median
71.19 tonnes per square kilometre
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
7,620
What the numbers show
Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring, per square kilometre is currently reported for 120 countries. The highest value is 20,949 tonnes per square kilometre in Trinidad and Tobago; the lowest is 0.0095 tonnes per square kilometre in Ethiopia.
The median across all reporting countries is 71.19 tonnes per square kilometre, and the mean is 897.3 tonnes per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 106 countries rose and 2 fell. The largest increase was in Israel (up 19,693.9%), and the largest decrease in Moldova (down 0.2%).
Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring, per square kilometre (flaring): full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trinidad and Tobago | 20,949 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 2 | Kuwait | 19,876 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 3 | Qatar | 18,781 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 9.3% | rising |
| 4 | Brunei | 15,388 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates | 6,103 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 6 | Bahrain | 3,120 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 606.7% | volatile |
| 7 | Iraq | 2,180 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 54.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Nigeria | 1,723 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 9.0% | volatile |
| 9 | Equatorial Guinea | 1,658 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 15.3% | volatile |
| 10 | Venezuela | 1,397 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 15.0% | rising |
| 11 | United Kingdom | 1,242 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 15.0% | volatile |
| 12 | Iran | 1,073 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 22.6% | rising |
| 13 | Netherlands | 989.43 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 47.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Syria | 725.43 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 14.7% | volatile |
| 15 | Gabon | 667.79 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 18.0% | volatile |
| 16 | Oman | 629.88 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 29.3% | volatile |
| 17 | Malaysia | 552.4 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 31.5% | volatile |
| 18 | Saudi Arabia | 498.1 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 4.0% | volatile |
| 19 | Denmark | 476.73 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 10.2% | volatile |
| 20 | Poland | 412.35 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 51.5% | volatile |
| 21 | Ecuador | 355.44 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 33.5% | volatile |
| 22 | Croatia | 354.38 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 17.2% | rising |
| 23 | Italy | 341.2 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 26.9% | rising |
| 24 | France | 328.61 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 14.9% | volatile |
| 25 | Algeria | 328.28 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 26.2% | volatile |
| 26 | Ukraine | 305.56 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 14.6% | rising |
| 27 | Libya | 295.89 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 19.7% | rising |
| 28 | Germany | 282.83 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 25.0% | volatile |
| 29 | Congo | 279.71 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 43.6% | volatile |
| 30 | United States | 269.54 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 34.2% | rising |
| 31 | Uzbekistan | 266.95 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 32 | Mexico | 256.58 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 23.7% | rising |
| 33 | Barbados | 254.98 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 24.7% | volatile |
| 34 | Slovenia | 242.81 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 31.3% | volatile |
| 35 | Portugal | 240.19 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 94.8% | volatile |
| 36 | East Timor | 235.65 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 32.4% | volatile |
| 37 | Indonesia | 227.07 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 9.2% | volatile |
| 38 | Angola | 224.06 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 22.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Norway | 212.21 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 17.6% | volatile |
| 40 | Lithuania | 209.68 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 20.3% | rising |
| 41 | Azerbaijan | 197.45 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 29.2% | rising |
| 42 | Spain | 192.66 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 63.5% | volatile |
| 43 | Turkmenistan | 175.88 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 49.3% | volatile |
| 44 | Romania | 149.14 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 30.7% | volatile |
| 45 | Hungary | 145.52 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 12.1% | rising |
| 46 | Egypt | 140.85 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 43.1% | volatile |
| 47 | Kazakhstan | 138.93 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 41.9% | volatile |
| 48 | Vietnam | 131.77 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 49.6% | volatile |
| 49 | Tunisia | 123.62 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 37.8% | volatile |
| 50 | New Zealand | 122.65 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 42.5% | volatile |
| 51 | Cameroon | 121.97 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 41.5% | volatile |
| 52 | Belgium | 117.59 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 35.9% | rising |
| 53 | Czechia | 116.46 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 54 | Chile | 111.7 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 55 | Bulgaria | 111.13 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 150.2% | volatile |
| 56 | Moldova | 109.21 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 57 | Russia | 106.11 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 46.6% | rising |
| 58 | Yemen | 87.23 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 32.3% | volatile |
| 59 | Armenia | 76.47 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1.0% | flat |
| 60 | Canada | 75.87 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 32.6% | volatile |
| 61 | Estonia | 66.5 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1.7% | flat |
| 62 | Colombia | 65.1 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 13.7% | volatile |
| 63 | Argentina | 63.42 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 11.0% | volatile |
| 64 | Brazil | 60.74 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 52.7% | volatile |
| 65 | Austria | 60.2 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 28.4% | volatile |
| 66 | India | 59.88 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 20.1% | volatile |
| 67 | Slovakia | 55.01 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 45.8% | rising |
| 68 | Belarus | 50.07 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 69 | Iceland | 47.24 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 51.3% | volatile |
| 70 | Japan | 47.17 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 30.7% | volatile |
| 71 | Bolivia | 45.37 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1.1% | volatile |
| 72 | Australia | 44.89 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 83.4% | volatile |
| 73 | Sweden | 42.04 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 32.1% | volatile |
| 74 | Georgia | 40.29 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 75 | Pakistan | 39.22 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 23.1% | volatile |
| 76 | Switzerland | 32.47 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 23.3% | volatile |
| 77 | Ghana | 30.43 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 649.0% | volatile |
| 78 | Kyrgyzstan | 28.97 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 79 | Thailand | 28.34 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 65.4% | volatile |
| 80 | Latvia | 25.04 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 0.0% | flat |
| 81 | Peru | 21.14 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 82 | China | 17.77 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 31.9% | volatile |
| 83 | Tajikistan | 15.07 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 84 | Papua New Guinea | 14.2 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 20.5% | volatile |
| 85 | Cote d'Ivoire | 13.53 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 28.7% | volatile |
| 86 | Serbia | 12.06 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 87 | Philippines | 11.84 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 118.1% | volatile |
| 88 | Guatemala | 10.47 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1,163.1% | volatile |
| 89 | Cuba | 10.16 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 190.4% | volatile |
| 90 | Myanmar | 10.03 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 91 | Finland | 9.61 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 44.2% | volatile |
| 92 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 9.21 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 19.7% | rising |
| 93 | Afghanistan | 9.13 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 94 | Turkey | 8.11 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 43.0% | rising |
| 95 | Sudan | 7.07 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 66.1% | rising |
| 96 | Guyana | 6.95 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 97 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 6.45 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 98 | North Macedonia | 6.44 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 99 | Israel | 5.95 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 19,693.9% | volatile |
| 100 | Albania | 5.58 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1,196.3% | volatile |
| 101 | Chad | 4.77 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 183.2% | volatile |
| 102 | South Africa | 3.47 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 10.7% | rising |
| 103 | Greece | 3.29 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 15.7% | rising |
| 104 | Montenegro | 2.9 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 105 | Bangladesh | 2.88 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 483.6% | volatile |
| 106 | Mozambique | 2.01 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 1,454.6% | volatile |
| 107 | Ireland | 1.51 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 9.0% | volatile |
| 108 | Mauritania | 0.9834 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 32.8% | volatile |
| 109 | Belize | 0.9802 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 110 | Niger | 0.9439 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 165.7% | volatile |
| 111 | Rwanda | 0.9251 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 112 | Senegal | 0.6497 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 113 | Luxembourg | 0.6335 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 30.2% | rising |
| 114 | Jordan | 0.6133 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 464.7% | volatile |
| 115 | South Korea | 0.2525 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 116 | Cambodia | 0.1343 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 117 | Mongolia | 0.073 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 114.8% | volatile |
| 118 | Suriname | 0.0259 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 119 | Tanzania | 0.0102 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | up 5.5% | volatile |
| 120 | Ethiopia | 0.0095 tonnes per square kilometre | 2024 | — | volatile |
How this figure is calculated
Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Cumulative co2 flaring Our World in Data
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.