India vs Japan: Share of global CO₂ emissions from coal

India

13.3%

in 2024

Japan

2.4%

in 2024

India rank

2nd

Japan rank

5th

Share of global CO₂ emissions from coal over time

India currently reports 13.3% against 2.4% in Japan, a difference of 10.9%.

That makes India's figure about 5.5 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 147 shared years of data; in 1878 it was India ahead.

India ranks 2nd and Japan ranks 5th of 179 countries.

Indicator: Share of global CO₂ emissions from coal
Unit: %
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

Annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from coal, measured as a percentage of global emissions of CO₂ from coal in the same year.