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Japan vs Libya: Methane emissions

Japan
28.82 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Libya
28.20 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Japan rank
55th
Libya rank
57th

Methane emissions over time

  • Japan
  • Libya
050.0M100.0M150.0M185019372024

How they compare

Japan currently reports 28.82 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 28.20 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Libya, a difference of 621,900 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 55th and Libya ranks 57th 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.