Canada vs India: Cumulative CO₂ emissions

Canada

35.64 billion tonnes

in 2024

India

66.07 billion tonnes

in 2024

Canada rank

9th

India rank

7th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions over time

India currently reports 66.07 billion tonnes against 35.64 billion tonnes in Canada, a difference of 30.43 billion tonnes.

That makes India's figure about 1.9 times Canada's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 156 shared years of data; in 1858 it was Canada ahead.

Canada ranks 9th and India ranks 7th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative 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, 23,408 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Total cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, since the first year of available data, measured in tonnes.