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Denmark vs Sri Lanka: Methane emissions

Denmark
10.22 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Sri Lanka
11.10 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Denmark rank
101st
Sri Lanka rank
98th

Methane emissions over time

  • Denmark
  • Sri Lanka
02.5M5.0M7.5M10.0M12.5M185019372024

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 11.10 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 10.22 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Denmark, a difference of 881,300 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.1 times Denmark's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Denmark ahead.

Denmark ranks 101st and Sri Lanka ranks 98th 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.