Germany vs Japan: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Germany

-21.45 million tonnes

in 2024

Japan

-25.04 million tonnes

in 2024

Germany rank

214th

Japan rank

215th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Germany currently reports -21.45 million tonnes against -25.04 million tonnes in Japan, a difference of 3.60 million tonnes.

The two have swapped places 58 times across 156 shared years of data; in 1869 it was Germany ahead.

Germany ranks 214th and Japan ranks 215th 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.