Agricultural Soils — Emissions (N2O), per square kilometre by country
Agricultural Soils — Emissions (N2O) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
What the numbers show
Agricultural Soils — Emissions (N2O), per square kilometre is currently reported for 187 countries. The highest value is 0.0006 kt per square kilometre in Bangladesh; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Aruba.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0001 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0001 kt per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 105 countries rose and 78 fell. The largest increase was in Malawi (up 141.2%), and the largest decrease in Bermuda (down 72.7%).
Agricultural Soils — Emissions (N2O), per square kilometre: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bangladesh | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.8% | rising |
| 2 | Ireland | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.3% | rising |
| 3 | Denmark | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.9% | falling |
| 4 | Pakistan | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.0% | volatile |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.7% | rising |
| 6 | India | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.7% | rising |
| 7 | Belgium | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.2% | flat |
| 8 | Belarus | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.4% | rising |
| 9 | Barbados | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 10 | Vietnam | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.6% | volatile |
| 11 | Germany | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 20.2% | rising |
| 12 | Dominican Republic | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.0% | rising |
| 13 | Poland | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 14 | Burundi | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 53.3% | volatile |
| 15 | Luxembourg | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.7% | rising |
| 16 | Lithuania | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.1% | rising |
| 17 | Malawi | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 141.2% | volatile |
| 18 | Uganda | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.4% | volatile |
| 19 | Mauritius | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.0% | rising |
| 20 | Rwanda | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Lebanon | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 22 | New Zealand | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.5% | rising |
| 23 | Hungary | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.7% | rising |
| 24 | France | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.5% | rising |
| 25 | Haiti | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 26 | Malta | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.3% | rising |
| 27 | Uruguay | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.7% | rising |
| 28 | Thailand | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.2% | rising |
| 29 | Ethiopia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 38.0% | rising |
| 30 | Faroe Islands | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.4% | volatile |
| 31 | Turkey | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.2% | rising |
| 32 | Israel | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.9% | rising |
| 33 | El Salvador | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.0% | rising |
| 34 | Estonia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 35 | Azerbaijan | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 36 | Guatemala | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.3% | rising |
| 37 | Costa Rica | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.5% | rising |
| 38 | Czechia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 17.6% | rising |
| 39 | Switzerland | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.5% | flat |
| 40 | Serbia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 17.5% | falling |
| 41 | Nepal | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.4% | rising |
| 42 | Kenya | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.2% | rising |
| 43 | Latvia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 44 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.7% | rising |
| 45 | China | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.8% | rising |
| 46 | Bulgaria | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.3% | falling |
| 47 | Philippines | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.8% | rising |
| 48 | Uzbekistan | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.3% | rising |
| 49 | Nigeria | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.3% | volatile |
| 50 | Indonesia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.6% | volatile |
| 51 | Burkina Faso | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.9% | volatile |
| 52 | Palestine | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 53 | Italy | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.1% | falling |
| 54 | Romania | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.6% | falling |
| 55 | Togo | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 55.1% | volatile |
| 56 | Moldova | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 30.9% | falling |
| 57 | Grenada | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.9% | rising |
| 58 | Ukraine | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.2% | flat |
| 59 | Nicaragua | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.5% | rising |
| 60 | Gambia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.7% | rising |
| 61 | Tuvalu | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 62 | Slovakia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.5% | rising |
| 63 | Sri Lanka | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.0% | rising |
| 64 | Bahrain | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 50.3% | volatile |
| 65 | Qatar | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 126.1% | volatile |
| 66 | Austria | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.8% | falling |
| 67 | Chad | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 80.8% | volatile |
| 68 | Comoros | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 69 | Spain | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 16.6% | rising |
| 70 | Benin | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 63.3% | volatile |
| 71 | Guinea | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 57.3% | volatile |
| 72 | Greece | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.1% | falling |
| 73 | Tonga | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 74 | Albania | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 29.8% | rising |
| 75 | Slovenia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.5% | falling |
| 76 | Cuba | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.1% | falling |
| 77 | Brazil | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.4% | rising |
| 78 | Jamaica | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.3% | flat |
| 79 | Eswatini | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.1% | rising |
| 80 | Senegal | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.2% | rising |
| 81 | Paraguay | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 82 | Honduras | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.2% | rising |
| 83 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 84 | Kuwait | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.6% | volatile |
| 85 | Saint Lucia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.1% | falling |
| 86 | Singapore | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.5% | volatile |
| 87 | Croatia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.2% | falling |
| 88 | Armenia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 41.5% | rising |
| 89 | Mexico | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 90 | South Sudan | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.1% | rising |
| 91 | Portugal | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.1% | falling |
| 92 | Cambodia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.4% | rising |
| 93 | Japan | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.1% | falling |
| 94 | Colombia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.8% | rising |
| 95 | Malaysia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.8% | volatile |
| 96 | United States | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 97 | Ghana | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 54.0% | volatile |
| 98 | Syria | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 99 | Brunei | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.5% | volatile |
| 100 | Morocco | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.4% | rising |
| 101 | Puerto Rico | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 20.5% | falling |
| 102 | Panama | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 103 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.9% | rising |
| 104 | Argentina | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 105 | Cyprus | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 22.6% | rising |
| 106 | Lesotho | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 16.8% | rising |
| 107 | Finland | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.9% | rising |
| 108 | Tajikistan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 52.2% | rising |
| 109 | Tunisia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 110 | Georgia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.8% | falling |
| 111 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.0% | falling |
| 112 | Sudan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 113 | Egypt | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.0% | rising |
| 114 | Eritrea | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 115 | Myanmar | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 27.5% | rising |
| 116 | Dominica | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.3% | rising |
| 117 | Ecuador | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 27.5% | rising |
| 118 | Sierra Leone | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.3% | volatile |
| 119 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.0% | volatile |
| 120 | Turkmenistan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.2% | rising |
| 121 | North Macedonia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 21.0% | falling |
| 122 | East Timor | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.9% | rising |
| 123 | Samoa | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 20.4% | rising |
| 124 | Zimbabwe | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 125 | Mali | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 48.6% | volatile |
| 126 | United Arab Emirates | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.0% | volatile |
| 127 | Djibouti | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 128 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 48.1% | rising |
| 129 | South Africa | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.9% | rising |
| 130 | Sweden | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 131 | Niger | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 45.4% | volatile |
| 132 | Cameroon | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.2% | rising |
| 133 | Laos | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 39.7% | rising |
| 134 | Somalia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 135 | Fiji | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 37.7% | rising |
| 136 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 61.6% | volatile |
| 137 | Iraq | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.0% | rising |
| 138 | Madagascar | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.8% | rising |
| 139 | Jordan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.2% | rising |
| 140 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.1% | rising |
| 141 | Mongolia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.3% | volatile |
| 142 | Belize | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.7% | volatile |
| 143 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 144 | Isle of Man | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 145 | Nauru | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 146 | Zambia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.7% | volatile |
| 147 | Norway | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 148 | Seychelles | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 65.6% | rising |
| 149 | Yemen | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 150 | Afghanistan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.3% | rising |
| 151 | Australia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.8% | rising |
| 152 | Peru | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 153 | Chile | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.3% | rising |
| 154 | Montenegro | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 17.0% | falling |
| 155 | Vanuatu | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 46.0% | rising |
| 156 | Maldives | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.0% | volatile |
| 157 | Central African Republic | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.8% | volatile |
| 158 | Canada | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.3% | rising |
| 159 | New Caledonia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.0% | falling |
| 160 | Papua New Guinea | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.5% | volatile |
| 161 | French Polynesia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 162 | Angola | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.0% | rising |
| 163 | Mauritania | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 164 | Mozambique | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.2% | rising |
| 165 | Kiribati | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 166 | Iceland | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 167 | Russia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.4% | falling |
| 168 | Namibia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 169 | Saudi Arabia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 60.3% | volatile |
| 170 | Kazakhstan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.4% | rising |
| 171 | Algeria | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.1% | rising |
| 172 | Oman | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.4% | volatile |
| 173 | Guyana | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.4% | rising |
| 174 | Liberia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 175 | Bhutan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.4% | rising |
| 176 | Bermuda | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 72.7% | volatile |
| 177 | Bahamas | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.4% | rising |
| 178 | Botswana | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 43.7% | rising |
| 179 | Suriname | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 30.7% | rising |
| 180 | Congo | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.0% | volatile |
| 181 | Libya | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.2% | rising |
| 182 | Gabon | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.4% | volatile |
| 183 | Solomon Islands | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.9% | rising |
| 184 | Equatorial Guinea | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.0% | rising |
| 185 | Palau | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 71.4% | volatile |
| 186 | Greenland | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.0% | volatile |
| 187 | Aruba | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 0.0001 kt per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
Agricultural Soils — Emissions (N2O) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Agricultural Soils — Emissions (N2O) ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Agricultural Soils — Emissions Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Agricultural Soils — Emissions (N2O) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.