India vs Japan: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement

India

3.15 billion tonnes

in 2024

Japan

2.10 billion tonnes

in 2024

India rank

2nd

Japan rank

4th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement over time

India currently reports 3.15 billion tonnes against 2.10 billion tonnes in Japan, a difference of 1.05 billion tonnes.

That makes India's figure about 1.5 times Japan's.

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

India ranks 2nd 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.