India vs Japan: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal

India

42.71 billion tonnes

in 2024

Japan

25.17 billion tonnes

in 2024

India rank

6th

Japan rank

7th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal over time

India currently reports 42.71 billion tonnes against 25.17 billion tonnes in Japan, a difference of 17.54 billion tonnes.

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

The two have swapped places 2 times across 147 shared years of data; in 1878 it was India ahead.

India ranks 6th and Japan ranks 7th 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.