Austria vs Italy: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal

Austria

2.78 billion tonnes

in 2024

Italy

4.80 billion tonnes

in 2024

Austria rank

26th

Italy rank

23rd

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal over time

Italy currently reports 4.80 billion tonnes against 2.78 billion tonnes in Austria, a difference of 2.02 billion tonnes.

That makes Italy's figure about 1.7 times Austria's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 165 shared years of data; in 1860 it was Austria ahead.

Austria ranks 26th and Italy ranks 23rd of 179 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal
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: 179 places, 18,115 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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