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Denmark vs Portugal: Methane emissions

Denmark
10.22 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Portugal
10.83 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Denmark rank
101st
Portugal rank
99th

Methane emissions over time

  • Denmark
  • Portugal
2.5M5.0M7.5M10.0M12.5M185019372024

How they compare

Portugal currently reports 10.83 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 10.22 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Denmark, a difference of 615,700 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Portugal's figure about 1.1 times Denmark's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Portugal ahead.

Denmark ranks 101st and Portugal ranks 99th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Methane emissions
Unit
tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
Source
Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
199 places, 34,825 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed

Measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.