India vs Indonesia: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

India

130.72 million tonnes

in 2024

Indonesia

49.86 million tonnes

in 2024

India rank

1st

Indonesia rank

3rd

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

India currently reports 130.72 million tonnes against 49.86 million tonnes in Indonesia, a difference of 80.86 million tonnes.

That makes India's figure about 2.6 times Indonesia's.

The two have swapped places 40 times across 135 shared years of data; in 1890 it was India ahead.

India ranks 1st and Indonesia ranks 3rd 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.