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Japan vs Niger: Methane emissions

Japan
28.82 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Niger
30.24 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Japan rank
55th
Niger rank
53rd

Methane emissions over time

  • Japan
  • Niger
020.0M40.0M60.0M80.0M185019372024

How they compare

Niger currently reports 30.24 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 28.82 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Japan, a difference of 1.42 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 55th and Niger ranks 53rd 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.