China vs Japan: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement

China
17.31 billion tonnes
in 2024
Japan
2.10 billion tonnes
in 2024
China rank
1st
Japan rank
4th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement over time

  • China
  • Japan
05.0B10.0B15.0B192819762024

How they compare

China currently reports 17.31 billion tonnes against 2.10 billion tonnes in Japan, a difference of 15.20 billion tonnes.

That makes China's figure about 8.2 times Japan's.

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

China ranks 1st and Japan ranks 4th of 211 countries.

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About this data

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