Germany vs Japan: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement

Germany

1.24 billion tonnes

in 2024

Japan

2.10 billion tonnes

in 2024

Germany rank

6th

Japan rank

4th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement over time

Japan currently reports 2.10 billion tonnes against 1.24 billion tonnes in Germany, a difference of 863.29 million tonnes.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.7 times Germany's.

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

Germany ranks 6th and Japan ranks 4th 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.