Australia vs Japan: Global warming: Contributions to the change in global mean surface temperature

Australia

1.5%

in 2024

Japan

2.1%

in 2024

Australia rank

11th

Japan rank

10th

Global warming: Contributions to the change in global mean surface temperature over time

Japan currently reports 2.1% against 1.5% in Australia, a difference of 0.6%.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.4 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 174 shared years of data; in 1851 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 11th and Japan ranks 10th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Global warming: Contributions to the change in global mean surface temperature
Unit: %
Source: Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 215 places, 37,410 data points, 1851–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured as a percentage of the world's temperature change.