Brazil vs China: Global warming: Contributions to the change in global mean surface temperature

Brazil

5.3%

in 2024

China

13.0%

in 2024

Brazil rank

4th

China rank

2nd

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

China currently reports 13.0% against 5.3% in Brazil, a difference of 7.7%.

That makes China's figure about 2.5 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 174 shared years of data; in 1851 it was China ahead.

Brazil ranks 4th and China ranks 2nd 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.