Germany vs India: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil

Germany

20.58 billion tonnes

in 2024

India

17.00 billion tonnes

in 2024

Germany rank

5th

India rank

6th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil over time

Germany currently reports 20.58 billion tonnes against 17.00 billion tonnes in India, a difference of 3.58 billion tonnes.

That makes Germany's figure about 1.2 times India's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 156 shared years of data; in 1858 it was India ahead.

Germany ranks 5th and India ranks 6th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil
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: 215 places, 21,740 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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