The US has emitted more CO2 cumulatively than has China. The current ratio, for CO2e starting in 1850, is 1.69. When will it equal one?
Our World in Data gives this chart
but their table of data is not very accommodating, having everything, by country, by year, shoved into a single column.
So instead I'm going to use the much more reasonable data presentation from PIK (Potsdam Institute of Climate Research), which begins in 1850.
Then, the ratio of US CO2e to China CO2e emissions is, since 1850
This is all emissions, in CO2-equivalent units, for the Kyoto gases, which are
Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and the so-called F-gases(hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6). Each gas is weighted by its global warming potential and aggregated to give total greenhouse gas emissions in CO2 equivalents.
Up until about 1880, China actually led the US, presumably from methane emissions from growing rice.
Since just after the peak, say starting in 1970, this ratio is very linear and looks like
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