India vs Japan: Cumulative CO₂ emissions

India

66.07 billion tonnes

in 2024

Japan

69.61 billion tonnes

in 2024

India rank

7th

Japan rank

6th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions over time

Japan currently reports 69.61 billion tonnes against 66.07 billion tonnes in India, a difference of 3.54 billion tonnes.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.1 times India's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 147 shared years of data; in 1878 it was India ahead.

India ranks 7th and Japan ranks 6th 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.