India vs Indonesia: Greenhouse gas emissions

India

4.26 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Indonesia

1.90 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

India rank

3rd

Indonesia rank

6th

Greenhouse gas emissions over time

India
Indonesia

How they compare

India currently reports 4.26 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 1.90 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Indonesia, a difference of 2.36 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes India's figure about 2.2 times Indonesia's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was India ahead.

India ranks 3rd and Indonesia ranks 6th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Greenhouse gas 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: 07 August 2026

Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.