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

India

130.72 million tonnes

in 2024

Russia

47.39 million tonnes

in 2024

India rank

1st

Russia rank

4th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

India currently reports 130.72 million tonnes against 47.39 million tonnes in Russia, a difference of 83.33 million tonnes.

That makes India's figure about 2.8 times Russia's.

The two have swapped places 40 times across 154 shared years of data; in 1859 it was India ahead.

India ranks 1st and Russia ranks 4th 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.