🇮🇳 India
How green is the average person in India?
Below the Paris-aligned target
India emits 2 tCO2 per person per year — 2.4× lower than the world average and below the Paris-aligned 2030 target. Ranked 45 of 51 countries by per-capita emissions.
Per-capita CO2
2 tCO2
per person, per year
Total emissions
2,841 Mt
1417.2M people
Electricity grid
632 g/kWh
CO2 per kWh of electricity
How India's emissions changed over time
India per-capita emissions peaked at 2 tCO2 in 2022. Today: 2 tCO2. That's a 641% rise since 1960. The world average over the same period went from 3.1 tCO2 in 1960 to 4.7 tCO2 today.
Calculate your own footprint in India
Diet, driving, flying, heating. We turn your lifestyle into tonnes of CO2 per year and compare it to India's average.
Step 1 of 4Diet
Tell us about your year
Four short steps. Skip what you do not know. Defaults reflect a typical lifestyle in your country.
What do you eat in a typical week?
Diet is around a fifth of a typical footprint in rich countries. Animal protein dominates the impact.
Anchor: world average 4.7 tCO2/yr · Paris-aligned 2030: 2.3 tCO2/yr.