Canada vs India: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from land-use change

Canada

40.40 billion tonnes

in 2024

India

42.04 billion tonnes

in 2024

Canada rank

7th

India rank

6th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from land-use change over time

India currently reports 42.04 billion tonnes against 40.40 billion tonnes in Canada, a difference of 1.64 billion tonnes.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was India ahead.

Canada ranks 7th and India ranks 6th of 197 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from land-use change
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: 197 places, 34,475 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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