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Personal carbon footprint calculator
Work out your yearly carbon footprint in a few minutes. Enter your Kahramaa usage, how you travel and what you eat. See your tonnes of CO2 next to the Qatar and world average.
Your footprint
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How you compare
National averages count fossil CO2 only and include industry. Your result covers home, travel and food in CO2e. Treat the comparison as a rough guide.
How we work it out
Electricity uses Qatar's grid factor of 0.58169 kg CO2e per kWh (Ember 2024). Water uses 4 kWh per m³ for desalination, our middle value between 3.5 and 6 kWh per m³ for seawater reverse osmosis (World Nuclear Association). Home use is split by the people in your home. Cars and flights use UK DESNZ 2025 factors. Flights assume 1,500 km each way for a short trip and 6,000 km for a long one, economy, with the climate effect of contrails included (our assumption). Food uses median diet emissions from Scarborough et al. 2023. Shopping, goods and services are not counted.
Sources
- Our World in Data, CO2 emissions per capita (Global Carbon Project, 2025)
- Our World in Data, carbon intensity of electricity (Ember 2024)
- UK DESNZ greenhouse gas conversion factors 2025 (cars and flights)
- Scarborough et al. 2023, Nature Food, diet emissions (Table 3)
- World Nuclear Association, desalination energy use
Questions
What is the average carbon footprint in Qatar?
Qatar's fossil CO2 emissions were about 31.47 tonnes per person in 2025, per the Global Carbon Project via Our World in Data. The world average was 4.74 tonnes. Qatar's figure includes gas production and industry, so a household footprint is usually lower.
Why is my result lower than the Qatar average?
The national figure counts all emissions on Qatari soil, including LNG, petrochemicals and power for industry, divided by everyone who lives here. This tool only counts your home, car, flights and food.
What is the biggest part of a household footprint in Qatar?
Usually electricity, because of air conditioning. Each kWh from the Qatar grid causes about 0.58 kg of CO2. Flights come next for people who travel often.
Why does water have a carbon footprint here?
Almost all drinking water in Qatar comes from desalinated seawater. Making it takes energy. We use 4 kWh per m³ as a middle value.
Does this include shopping and goods?
No. We did not find a reliable Qatar factor for spending on goods, so we left it out rather than guess. Your real footprint is higher than this result.
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