2024
12.289OWID / Global Carbon Project ↗
billion tonnes CO₂
Territorial fossil-fuel and industrial-process total.
Energy · carbon emissions
China energy-related CO₂ emissions
China emitted 12.289 billion tonnes of territorial fossil-fuel and industrial-process CO₂ in 2024, 31.84% of the world total. Coal was the largest source.
Per capita
8.658OWID / Global Carbon Project ↗
tonnes per person
Per-person value from the same archived release.
World share
31.84%OWID / Global Carbon Project ↗
of world total
World total 38.599 billion tonnes.
Annual change
0.96%OWID / Global Carbon Project ↗
year on year
About 117.0 million tonnes added.
Emissions and world share, 1950–2024
China and World from one archived release
Source: OWID / Global Carbon Project ↗ · Territorial fossil-fuel and industrial-process CO₂; excludes land-use changechinainfigures.com
2024 emissions by source
Coal, oil, gas and industrial processes
Source: OWID / Global Carbon Project ↗ · Components reconciled to the same-source totalchinainfigures.com
| Source | Million tonnes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Coal | 8886.021 | 72.31% |
| Oil | 1705.386 | 13.88% |
| Natural gas | 889.406 | 7.24% |
| Cement | 617.752 | 5.03% |
| Flaring | 4.013 | 0.03% |
| Other industry | 186.459 | 1.52% |
Same-source international comparison, 2024
| Rank | Economy | Million tonnes | Tonnes/person | World share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 12289.037 | 8.658 | 31.84% |
| 2 | United States | 4904.120 | 14.197 | 12.71% |
| 3 | India | 3193.478 | 2.201 | 8.27% |
| 4 | Russia | 1780.524 | 12.295 | 4.61% |
| 5 | Japan | 961.867 | 7.772 | 2.49% |
| 6 | Indonesia | 812.220 | 2.865 | 2.10% |
| 7 | Iran | 792.631 | 8.656 | 2.05% |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 692.133 | 20.379 | 1.79% |
| 9 | South Korea | 583.679 | 11.286 | 1.51% |
| 10 | Germany | 572.319 | 6.769 | 1.48% |
Definition and common misreadings
“Energy-related” here follows the dataset’s territorial fossil-fuel and industrial-process CO₂ scope. It excludes land-use change and is not all greenhouse gases. Territorial emissions differ from consumption footprints; emissions are also not energy use, electricity generation or installed capacity.
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Energy-related CO₂ emissions indicator added
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