China vs India: Territorial and consumption-based CO₂ emissions

China

12.29 billion tonnes

in 2024

India

3.19 billion tonnes

in 2024

China rank

1st

India rank

3rd

Territorial and consumption-based CO₂ emissions over time

China currently reports 12.29 billion tonnes against 3.19 billion tonnes in India, a difference of 9.10 billion tonnes.

That makes China's figure about 3.8 times India's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 118 shared years of data; in 1907 it was India ahead.

China ranks 1st and India ranks 3rd of 215 countries.

Indicator: Territorial and consumption-based CO₂ emissions
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: 216 places, 23,583 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in tonnes.