China vs India: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement

China

17.31 billion tonnes

in 2024

India

3.15 billion tonnes

in 2024

China rank

1st

India rank

2nd

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement over time

China currently reports 17.31 billion tonnes against 3.15 billion tonnes in India, a difference of 14.16 billion tonnes.

That makes China's figure about 5.5 times India's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 97 shared years of data; in 1928 it was India ahead.

China ranks 1st and India ranks 2nd of 211 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement
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: 211 places, 24,035 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from cement since the first year of available data, measured in tonnes.