
India: Greenhouse gas emissions
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India |
Greenhouse gas emissions |
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Latest value | 3200821 |
Reference | 2020 |
Measure | kt of CO2 equivalent |
Source | World bank |
For that indicator, we provide data for India from 1990 to 2020. The average value for India during that period was 2193435 kt of CO2 equivalent with a minimum of 1237963 kt of CO2 equivalent in 1990 and a maximum of 3436072 kt of CO2 equivalent in 2018.
The latest value from 2020 is 3200821 kt of CO2 equivalent. For comparison, the world average in 2020 based on 185
countries is 241624 kt of CO2 equivalent.
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Definition: Total greenhouse gas emissions in kt of CO2 equivalent are composed of CO2 totals excluding short-cycle biomass burning (such as agricultural waste burning and savanna burning) but including other biomass burning (such as forest fires, post-burn decay, peat fires and decay of drained peatlands), all anthropogenic CH4 sources, N2O sources and F-gases (HFCs, PFCs and SF6).