China vs Turkey: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

China

117.03 million tonnes

in 2024

Turkey

26.09 million tonnes

in 2024

China rank

2nd

Turkey rank

5th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

China currently reports 117.03 million tonnes against 26.09 million tonnes in Turkey, a difference of 90.94 million tonnes.

That makes China's figure about 4.5 times Turkey's.

The two have swapped places 26 times across 117 shared years of data; in 1908 it was China ahead.

China ranks 2nd and Turkey ranks 5th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions
Unit: tonnes
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, 23,088 data points, 1751–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual growth in total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in tonnes.