Agricultural Soils — Indirect emissions (N2O), per square kilometre by country

Agricultural Soils — Indirect 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.

Countries reporting
182
Highest
0.0001 kt per square kilometre
Bangladesh
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Maldives
Median
0 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
10,509

What the numbers show

Agricultural Soils — Indirect emissions (N2O), per square kilometre is currently reported for 182 countries. The highest value is 0.0001 kt per square kilometre in Bangladesh; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Maldives.

The median across all reporting countries is 0 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0 kt per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 105 countries rose and 75 fell. The largest increase was in Qatar (up 123.4%), and the largest decrease in Cyprus (down 47.1%).

Agricultural Soils — Indirect emissions (N2O), per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Bangladesh 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.1% rising
2 Barbados 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 19.3% rising
3 Belgium 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.5% falling
4 Pakistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 40.5% volatile
5 Burundi 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 60.8% volatile
6 Ireland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.0% rising
7 Denmark 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.6% falling
8 Dominican Republic 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.2% rising
9 Uganda 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 24.3% volatile
10 Haiti 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
11 United Kingdom 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% flat
12 Malawi 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 112.7% volatile
13 Rwanda 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.8% volatile
14 Lebanon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.3% rising
15 Malta 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 31.7% rising
16 Ethiopia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 36.3% rising
17 New Zealand 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.3% falling
18 Luxembourg 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.9% flat
19 India 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.6% rising
20 Tuvalu 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.3% rising
21 Nigeria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 22.0% volatile
22 Mauritius 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.6% rising
23 Uruguay 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.8% flat
24 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.7% rising
25 Kenya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 25.9% rising
26 Togo 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 51.6% volatile
27 Nepal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.0% rising
28 Germany 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.8% falling
29 Azerbaijan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.8% rising
30 Grenada 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 34.0% rising
31 Burkina Faso 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% volatile
32 Palestine 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.8% rising
33 Israel 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.3% rising
34 Vietnam 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.0% rising
35 Qatar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 123.4% volatile
36 Bahrain 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 22.3% rising
37 France 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.2% flat
38 Switzerland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.7% falling
39 El Salvador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% flat
40 Chad 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 85.9% volatile
41 Tonga 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% rising
42 Turkey 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 25.7% falling
43 Comoros 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
44 Guatemala 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.3% rising
45 Costa Rica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 40.7% rising
46 Gambia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.9% rising
47 Senegal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 26.7% rising
48 Cuba 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.1% falling
49 Nicaragua 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 18.8% rising
50 Jamaica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
51 Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 57.6% volatile
52 Benin 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 55.0% rising
53 Albania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 34.1% rising
54 Singapore 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.4% volatile
55 Poland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.2% falling
56 Kuwait 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 36.3% volatile
57 Antigua and Barbuda 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.1% rising
58 Guinea-Bissau 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% rising
59 Uzbekistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 35.6% rising
60 Italy 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.4% falling
61 Romania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.0% falling
62 Saint Lucia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.9% rising
63 Hungary 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% falling
64 Eswatini 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.4% rising
65 Syria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.0% rising
66 Philippines 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
67 Serbia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.1% flat
68 Austria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% falling
69 South Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.5% rising
70 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 40.9% flat
71 Spain 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.9% rising
72 Paraguay 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.8% rising
73 China 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.1% rising
74 Lesotho 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.8% rising
75 Ghana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 52.1% volatile
76 Greece 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 25.8% falling
77 Czechia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% falling
78 Moldova 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.9% falling
79 Brazil 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.4% rising
80 Indonesia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 41.1% rising
81 Slovenia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.7% falling
82 Brunei 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.9% volatile
83 Armenia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 17.7% rising
84 Morocco 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.5% rising
85 Dominica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% rising
86 Honduras 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.3% rising
87 Puerto Rico 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 22.3% falling
88 Belarus 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.0% falling
89 Mexico 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.6% rising
90 Colombia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 28.6% rising
91 Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.3% flat
92 Portugal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.5% falling
93 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.5% rising
94 Eritrea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.5% rising
95 Sierra Leone 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.2% volatile
96 Tajikistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.4% rising
97 United Arab Emirates 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.8% volatile
98 Tunisia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.2% rising
99 East Timor 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.3% rising
100 Lithuania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.3% falling
101 Cambodia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.1% rising
102 Djibouti 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% rising
103 Mali 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 56.5% volatile
104 Somalia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.0% rising
105 Thailand 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.5% rising
106 Panama 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.7% rising
107 Slovakia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.9% falling
108 Myanmar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.0% rising
109 Samoa 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 22.2% rising
110 Argentina 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% rising
111 Sri Lanka 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.5% flat
112 Ecuador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 21.0% rising
113 Ukraine 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.5% falling
114 Niger 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 42.4% rising
115 Croatia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% falling
116 Bulgaria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.0% falling
117 Japan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.6% flat
118 North Macedonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.7% falling
119 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 22.6% rising
120 Georgia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 20.0% falling
121 Zimbabwe 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
122 Cyprus 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 47.1% rising
123 Cameroon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.0% rising
124 Faroe Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.7% rising
125 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.0% rising
126 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 26.4% rising
127 Fiji 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 36.8% rising
128 United States 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.1% rising
129 Laos 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 27.4% rising
130 South Africa 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.7% flat
131 Yemen 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.8% rising
132 Madagascar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% rising
133 Cote d'Ivoire 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 60.4% volatile
134 Turkmenistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.5% rising
135 Jordan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.2% rising
136 Afghanistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.7% rising
137 Nauru 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
137 Seychelles 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 53.3% rising
139 Iraq 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% falling
140 Mongolia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 49.4% rising
141 Latvia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% falling
142 Montenegro 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.9% falling
143 Malaysia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.4% rising
144 Estonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.0% falling
145 Peru 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.2% rising
146 Egypt 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.1% rising
147 Vanuatu 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 45.7% rising
148 Central African Republic 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.2% volatile
149 Australia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.3% falling
150 Kiribati 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.3% rising
151 Zambia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 27.1% rising
152 Mauritania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.2% rising
153 Chile 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.3% rising
154 French Polynesia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.8% rising
155 Angola 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.5% rising
156 Belize 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.0% rising
157 New Caledonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.2% falling
158 Algeria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.5% rising
159 Kazakhstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.7% rising
160 Mozambique 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.6% rising
161 Sweden 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 20.8% falling
162 Norway 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% flat
163 Oman 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% volatile
164 Finland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.4% falling
165 Namibia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 26.4% rising
166 Saudi Arabia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 72.3% volatile
167 Liberia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
168 Bhutan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.4% rising
169 Bahamas 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.9% rising
170 Russia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.6% falling
171 Guyana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% rising
172 Canada 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.9% rising
173 Iceland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.7% falling
174 Botswana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 46.1% flat
175 Libya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% rising
176 Congo 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% volatile
177 Solomon Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.2% rising
178 Papua New Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% rising
179 Gabon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% rising
180 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.4% rising
181 Suriname 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.9% rising
182 Maldives 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 volatile

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

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Agricultural Soils — Indirect 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 — Indirect emissions (N2O) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Agricultural Soils — Indirect emissions (N2O), per square kilometre
Unit
kt per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
183 places, 10,509 data points, 1961–2023
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Agricultural Soils — Indirect 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.