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China vs India: Methane emissions

China
1.59 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
India
859.29 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
China rank
1st
India rank
2nd

Methane emissions over time

  • China
  • India
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How they compare

China currently reports 1.59 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 859.29 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in India, a difference of 731.38 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes China's figure about 1.9 times India's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was China ahead.

China ranks 1st and India ranks 2nd of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Methane emissions
Unit
tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
Source
Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
199 places, 34,825 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed

Measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.