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Italy vs United Kingdom: Methane emissions

Italy
40.76 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
United Kingdom
43.81 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Italy rank
43rd
United Kingdom rank
40th

Methane emissions over time

  • Italy
  • United Kingdom
050.0M100.0M150.0M185019372024

How they compare

United Kingdom currently reports 43.81 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 40.76 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Italy, a difference of 3.06 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes United Kingdom's figure about 1.1 times Italy's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was United Kingdom ahead.

Italy ranks 43rd and United Kingdom ranks 40th 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.