2025 Global Gas Flaring Tracker Report

https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/gasflaringreduction/publication/2025-global-gas-flaring-tracker-report Highlights In 2024, flaring surged by 3 billion cubic meters (bcm) to 151bcm, the highest level since 2007. The top nine flaring countries continue to account for three-quarters of all flaring, but less than half of global oil production. More than half a billion people still lack reliable access to electricity. The associated gas wastefully burned each year is equivalent to Africa's total annual gas consumption. 389 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMtCO2e) emissions, including 46 MMtCO2e in the form of unburnt methane, were released by flares in 2024.