Agricultural Soils — Direct emissions (N2O) — UNFCCC by country

Countries reporting

Highest

180.72 kt

Russian Federation

Lowest

0.0149 kt

Liechtenstein

Median

10.48 kt

Years covered

1990–2020

Data points

1,520

What the numbers show

Agricultural Soils — Direct emissions (N2O) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 48 countries. The highest value is 180.72 kt in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0.0149 kt in Liechtenstein.

The median across all reporting countries is 10.48 kt, and the mean is 22.01 kt.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 12,129.

Over the past decade 34 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Mongolia (up 82.6%), and the largest decrease in Cyprus (down 8.1%).

Agricultural Soils — Direct emissions (N2O) — UNFCCC: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Russian Federation	180.72 kt	2020	up 23.8%	falling
2	Ukraine	84.35 kt	2020	up 52.3%	rising
3	Türkiye	81.53 kt	2020	up 60.3%	rising
4	France	80.75 kt	2020	down 6.9%	falling
5	Canada	55.06 kt	2020	up 42.2%	rising
6	Germany	47.13 kt	2020	down 4.2%	falling
7	Kazakhstan	43.99 kt	2020	up 11.6%	rising
8	Poland	42.84 kt	2020	up 5.1%	falling
9	Spain	35.64 kt	2020	up 9.5%	rising
10	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	31.21 kt	2020	down 2.9%	falling
11	Australia	30.96 kt	2020	up 4.3%	rising
12	Belarus	29.27 kt	2020	down 0.5%	flat
13	Italy	28.38 kt	2020	up 13.0%	falling
14	Paraguay	23.48 kt	2015	up 45.8%	rising
15	Romania	21.77 kt	2020	up 13.8%	falling
16	New Zealand	21.61 kt	2020	up 12.3%	rising
17	Ireland	17.43 kt	2020	up 6.6%	falling
18	Mongolia	16.25 kt	2014	up 82.6%	rising
19	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	14.46 kt	2020	down 2.6%	falling
20	Malaysia	13.6 kt	2016	up 14.9%	rising
21	Denmark	13.41 kt	2020	up 7.9%	falling
22	Hungary	12.07 kt	2020	up 40.8%	rising
23	Japan	11.66 kt	2020	down 4.4%	falling
24	Finland	10.66 kt	2020	up 1.9%	flat
25	Bulgaria	10.31 kt	2020	up 33.0%	rising
26	Sweden	10.04 kt	2020	up 7.5%	falling
27	Colombia	9.93 kt	2014	up 1.1%	rising
28	Czechia	9.36 kt	2020	up 14.1%	rising
29	Belgium	8.62 kt	2020	down 3.2%	falling
30	Greece	8.01 kt	2020	down 7.3%	falling
31	Lithuania	7.12 kt	2020	up 28.0%	rising
32	Namibia	6.5 kt	2016	up 30.0%	rising
33	Portugal	6.02 kt	2020	up 10.3%	falling
34	Austria	5.64 kt	2020	up 5.8%	falling
35	Norway	4.7 kt	2020	up 9.3%	flat
36	Slovakia	3.73 kt	2020	up 23.2%	rising
37	Switzerland	3.73 kt	2020	down 4.1%	falling
38	Latvia	3.29 kt	2020	up 24.9%	rising
39	Cambodia	3.17 kt	2016	up 11.2%	rising
40	Croatia	2.84 kt	2020	down 2.7%	falling
41	Estonia	1.99 kt	2020	up 30.9%	rising
42	Slovenia	1.11 kt	2020	up 2.7%	falling
43	Iceland	0.7043 kt	2020	down 0.8%	rising
44	North Macedonia	0.64 kt	2014	up 3.1%	flat
45	Luxembourg	0.5255 kt	2020	down 4.2%	flat
46	Cyprus	0.3628 kt	2020	down 8.1%	falling
47	Malta	0.0595 kt	2020	down 3.4%	falling
48	Liechtenstein	0.0149 kt	2020	up 2.1%	flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator: Agricultural Soils — Direct emissions (N2O) — UNFCCC
Unit: kt
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 53 places, 1,520 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed: 13 August 2026

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions Totals summarizes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disseminated in the FAOSTAT Climate Change domains of emissions from agrifood systems. Data are computed following the Tier 1 methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National greenhouse gas (GHG) Inventories (IPCC, 1996; 1997; 2000; 2002; 2006; 2014). Emissions from other economic sectors as defined by the IPCC are also disseminated in the domain for completeness. Methodological details can be found at: https://files-faostat.fao.org/production/GT/GT_en.pdf