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

Countries reporting

Highest

30.51 kt

Russian Federation

Lowest

0.0048 kt

Liechtenstein

Median

2 kt

Years covered

1990–2020

Data points

1,466

What the numbers show

Agricultural Soils — Indirect emissions (N2O) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 45 countries. The highest value is 30.51 kt in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0.0048 kt in Liechtenstein.

The median across all reporting countries is 2 kt, and the mean is 4.92 kt.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6,356.

Over the past decade 30 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Namibia (up 233.3%), and the largest decrease in Slovakia (down 41.4%).

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

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Russian Federation	30.51 kt	2020	up 37.8%	falling
2	Ukraine	22.51 kt	2020	up 68.4%	rising
3	France	17.4 kt	2020	down 6.7%	falling
4	Germany	15.53 kt	2020	down 8.7%	flat
5	Canada	14.07 kt	2020	up 29.2%	rising
6	Australia	10.48 kt	2020	up 14.6%	rising
7	Türkiye	10.38 kt	2020	up 66.9%	rising
8	Poland	9.98 kt	2020	up 6.3%	falling
9	Italy	7.93 kt	2020	up 12.9%	falling
10	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	7.88 kt	2020	down 3.1%	falling
11	Japan	7.83 kt	2020	down 2.3%	falling
12	Romania	6.87 kt	2020	up 14.3%	falling
13	Spain	5.98 kt	2020	up 11.1%	rising
14	Kazakhstan	5.53 kt	2020	up 16.9%	rising
15	Paraguay	5.26 kt	2015	up 47.3%	rising
16	Belarus	5 kt	2020	up 2.1%	rising
17	New Zealand	4.84 kt	2020	up 5.7%	rising
18	Malaysia	3.88 kt	2016	up 7.2%	rising
19	Bulgaria	2.85 kt	2020	up 33.9%	rising
20	Greece	2.83 kt	2020	down 7.7%	falling
21	Czechia	2.8 kt	2020	up 10.6%	rising
22	Belgium	2.32 kt	2020	down 4.0%	falling
23	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	2 kt	2020	up 2.4%	falling
24	Ireland	1.9 kt	2020	up 6.1%	falling
25	Denmark	1.77 kt	2020	up 1.3%	falling
26	Lithuania	1.51 kt	2020	up 34.3%	rising
27	Portugal	1.5 kt	2020	up 11.0%	falling
28	Switzerland	1.33 kt	2020	down 7.0%	falling
29	Finland	1.31 kt	2020	down 5.3%	falling
30	Austria	1.08 kt	2020	up 3.9%	falling
31	Sweden	0.9515 kt	2020	up 2.3%	falling
32	Hungary	0.9115 kt	2020	up 36.6%	flat
33	Croatia	0.8983 kt	2020	down 5.0%	falling
34	Norway	0.7625 kt	2020	up 7.2%	flat
35	Slovakia	0.6472 kt	2020	down 41.4%	falling
36	Latvia	0.601 kt	2020	up 35.7%	rising
37	Estonia	0.4689 kt	2020	up 39.2%	rising
38	Slovenia	0.3661 kt	2020	up 0.6%	falling
39	North Macedonia	0.23 kt	2014	up 1.3%	flat
40	Luxembourg	0.1538 kt	2020	down 1.2%	flat
41	Iceland	0.1263 kt	2020	down 2.7%	flat
42	Namibia	0.1 kt	2016	up 233.3%	volatile
43	Cyprus	0.0585 kt	2020	down 5.8%	falling
44	Malta	0.0218 kt	2020	down 4.4%	falling
45	Liechtenstein	0.0048 kt	2020	down 2.0%	falling

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 — Indirect emissions (N2O) — UNFCCC
Unit: kt
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 50 places, 1,466 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