Agrifood systems — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5), per square kilometre by country

Agrifood systems — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) 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
201
Highest
7.83 kt per square kilometre
Gibraltar
Lowest
0.0005 kt per square kilometre
Greenland
Median
0.1537 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
6,749

What the numbers show

Agrifood systems — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5), per square kilometre is currently reported for 201 countries. The highest value is 7.83 kt per square kilometre in Gibraltar; the lowest is 0.0005 kt per square kilometre in Greenland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1537 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.3721 kt per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 14,356.

Over the past decade 128 countries rose and 73 fell. The largest increase was in Bhutan (up 514.0%), and the largest decrease in Sao Tome and Principe (down 71.5%).

Agrifood systems — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5), per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Gibraltar 7.83 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 62.4% rising
2 Singapore 7.45 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.0% rising
3 Bahrain 5.03 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.1% rising
4 Trinidad and Tobago 4.1 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 35.1% rising
5 Monaco 3.27 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% rising
6 Malta 2.26 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.3% rising
7 Aruba 1.49 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.8% rising
8 Barbados 1.14 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.2% rising
9 Bangladesh 1.11 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.1% rising
10 Maldives 1.04 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 87.4% volatile
11 Qatar 1.02 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.9% volatile
12 Palestine 0.9426 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 71.5% volatile
13 Mauritius 0.9064 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 32.3% rising
14 Israel 0.8671 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 27.3% rising
15 Belgium 0.7456 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 21.0% falling
16 Kuwait 0.6921 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 24.2% rising
17 American Samoa 0.6393 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.6% falling
18 Puerto Rico 0.6344 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 24.2% rising
19 Lebanon 0.6189 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 28.1% rising
20 Cambodia 0.5904 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.6% volatile
21 Ireland 0.5852 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.9% flat
22 Bermuda 0.5602 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 4.2% rising
23 Luxembourg 0.5592 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.9% falling
24 United Kingdom 0.52 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.5% falling
25 Germany 0.5065 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.6% falling
26 Faroe Islands 0.4988 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.9% flat
27 Thailand 0.4841 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 55.3% rising
28 India 0.4753 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.7% rising
29 Vietnam 0.4622 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 27.3% rising
30 Cayman Islands 0.46 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 28.2% rising
31 Dominican Republic 0.458 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.7% rising
32 Denmark 0.4561 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.0% falling
33 Poland 0.4496 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.2% flat
34 United States Virgin Islands 0.4442 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% volatile
35 Saint Lucia 0.4438 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising
36 Haiti 0.4379 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 18.4% rising
37 Japan 0.4363 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.8% flat
38 Indonesia 0.4361 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.0% falling
39 Malaysia 0.4357 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 60.5% rising
40 Belarus 0.4254 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 4.0% flat
41 Grenada 0.408 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 27.0% rising
42 Seychelles 0.3985 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.8% rising
43 Antigua and Barbuda 0.3864 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.9% rising
44 Pakistan 0.3812 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 28.4% rising
45 Switzerland 0.3694 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.9% rising
46 Philippines 0.3642 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.3% rising
47 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.3564 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.1% rising
48 Italy 0.3497 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.5% falling
49 Lithuania 0.3445 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.7% rising
50 Burundi 0.3402 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 26.6% rising
51 Rwanda 0.3306 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
52 Tuvalu 0.3192 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% rising
53 Guatemala 0.3191 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 43.9% falling
54 Uganda 0.2993 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.9% rising
55 United Arab Emirates 0.2968 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.8% rising
56 Jamaica 0.2965 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.9% falling
57 Nauru 0.2868 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 53.5% volatile
58 Hungary 0.2836 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.9% flat
59 Brunei 0.2801 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.4% falling
60 El Salvador 0.2627 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.7% falling
61 France 0.2604 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.2% flat
62 Czechia 0.2566 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.8% falling
63 Liberia 0.2518 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 63.8% volatile
64 Romania 0.2485 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 54.3% rising
65 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.2485 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.1% flat
66 China 0.2468 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.0% rising
67 Brazil 0.2464 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 28.2% falling
68 Myanmar 0.2446 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.5% flat
69 Belize 0.2432 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.8% rising
70 Sri Lanka 0.2393 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.3% rising
71 Estonia 0.2377 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.1% flat
72 Austria 0.2203 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.1% flat
73 Malawi 0.2197 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 41.8% rising
74 Nepal 0.2159 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.0% rising
75 Slovenia 0.2143 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% rising
76 Gambia 0.213 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.6% rising
77 Portugal 0.2113 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.8% falling
78 Turkey 0.205 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 26.8% rising
79 Costa Rica 0.2022 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% rising
80 Azerbaijan 0.2018 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 15.3% rising
81 San Marino 0.1987 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.3% volatile
82 New Zealand 0.1976 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.4% rising
83 Nigeria 0.1941 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.2% rising
84 Guinea 0.188 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.0% rising
85 Nicaragua 0.1848 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.9% falling
86 Serbia 0.1821 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.1% flat
87 Paraguay 0.1803 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 24.5% falling
88 Uruguay 0.1794 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% rising
89 Greece 0.1778 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 22.5% falling
90 Moldova 0.1772 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.4% falling
91 Cyprus 0.176 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% rising
92 Spain 0.1742 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.5% flat
93 Honduras 0.1701 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.0% rising
94 Cameroon 0.17 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 64.2% rising
95 Burkina Faso 0.1678 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.9% rising
96 Cote d'Ivoire 0.1659 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 20.2% falling
97 Latvia 0.1595 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.0% rising
98 Uzbekistan 0.1595 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 19.1% rising
99 Laos 0.1589 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.6% rising
100 Panama 0.1577 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.3% falling
101 Channel Islands 0.1537 kt per square kilometre 2021 up 36.7% volatile
102 Colombia 0.1536 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 27.5% falling
103 Equatorial Guinea 0.1533 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% rising
104 Benin 0.1512 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 57.4% falling
105 Tonga 0.1472 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.3% rising
106 Andorra 0.1436 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.3% rising
107 Ethiopia 0.1425 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.7% rising
108 Albania 0.1416 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 21.2% falling
109 Ukraine 0.1399 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 27.0% falling
110 Dominica 0.1395 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.5% rising
111 Croatia 0.1394 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% rising
112 Slovakia 0.1386 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.1% falling
113 Ecuador 0.1381 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.8% falling
114 Bulgaria 0.1376 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 36.0% falling
115 Peru 0.1372 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.4% flat
116 North Macedonia 0.1334 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.2% rising
117 Comoros 0.1315 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.9% falling
118 Eswatini 0.1312 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.3% rising
119 Cuba 0.1259 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.0% falling
120 Mexico 0.1251 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% rising
121 East Timor 0.1249 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.7% rising
122 Sierra Leone 0.1176 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.1% rising
123 Togo 0.1169 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 23.2% rising
124 Madagascar 0.1152 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% rising
125 Bhutan 0.1137 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 514.0% volatile
126 United States 0.113 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% rising
127 British Virgin Islands 0.1113 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 18.1% rising
128 Armenia 0.1098 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.1% rising
129 Senegal 0.1097 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 23.9% rising
130 Tunisia 0.1088 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% rising
131 Kenya 0.107 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.6% rising
132 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.1051 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.6% rising
133 Guinea-Bissau 0.1049 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.6% rising
134 Morocco 0.1048 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% rising
135 Jordan 0.1047 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 23.6% rising
136 Samoa 0.1024 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.4% rising
137 Marshall Islands 0.0961 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.4% rising
138 South Sudan 0.096 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.8% flat
139 Syria 0.0954 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.8% rising
140 Chad 0.0948 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 51.0% rising
141 Zimbabwe 0.0928 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% falling
142 Central African Republic 0.0908 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.8% rising
143 Argentina 0.0894 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% rising
144 Finland 0.0893 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 22.0% rising
145 Egypt 0.0881 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% rising
146 Mozambique 0.0877 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.4% rising
147 Zambia 0.0874 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.6% rising
148 Suriname 0.0873 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 180.9% volatile
149 Ghana 0.0823 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.0% rising
150 Vanuatu 0.082 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.8% flat
151 Montenegro 0.0815 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.8% flat
152 Georgia 0.0796 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.3% rising
153 Sweden 0.0782 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% flat
154 Isle of Man 0.0775 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.3% rising
155 Bahamas 0.0769 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.2% rising
156 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0762 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 71.5% volatile
157 Iraq 0.0742 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.0% rising
158 Tajikistan 0.0707 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 31.2% rising
159 Guyana 0.0686 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 26.3% rising
160 South Africa 0.0679 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% rising
161 Angola 0.0673 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.9% rising
162 Liechtenstein 0.0626 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.9% rising
163 Papua New Guinea 0.0621 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% falling
164 Lesotho 0.0592 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% rising
165 Fiji 0.0574 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 20.1% falling
166 Mali 0.0541 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.1% rising
167 Sudan 0.0516 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.1% rising
168 Somalia 0.0508 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 47.1% rising
169 Eritrea 0.0499 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.4% rising
170 Turkmenistan 0.0495 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 27.2% rising
171 Chile 0.0479 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.2% rising
172 Djibouti 0.0461 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.4% rising
173 Palau 0.0442 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.1% rising
174 French Polynesia 0.0438 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.7% rising
175 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0434 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 49.9% volatile
176 Norway 0.0422 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% flat
177 Kyrgyzstan 0.0408 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% rising
178 Oman 0.039 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 30.4% volatile
179 Mongolia 0.0385 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 22.7% rising
180 Kiribati 0.0379 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
181 Australia 0.0369 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 36.2% falling
182 Saudi Arabia 0.0349 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 23.7% rising
183 Afghanistan 0.0347 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.4% rising
184 Yemen 0.0342 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.3% rising
185 Canada 0.0335 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 59.5% flat
186 Niger 0.0331 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 44.4% rising
187 Botswana 0.0295 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 65.3% rising
188 Solomon Islands 0.0275 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.2% rising
189 Algeria 0.0272 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 34.2% rising
190 Russia 0.0258 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 18.9% falling
191 New Caledonia 0.0247 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 44.3% rising
192 Gabon 0.0243 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 34.4% rising
193 Iceland 0.0239 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.2% falling
194 Congo 0.0213 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 57.5% rising
195 Kazakhstan 0.0193 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 29.8% rising
196 Mauritania 0.0122 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.1% rising
197 Guam 0.0113 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.9% rising
198 Namibia 0.0113 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.5% falling
199 Northern Mariana Islands 0.0085 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.1% falling
200 Libya 0.0077 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.6% rising
201 Greenland 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.5% rising

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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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Agrifood systems — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) 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.

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Agrifood systems — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5), per square kilometre
Unit
kt per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
203 places, 6,749 data points, 1990–2023
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Agrifood systems — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) 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.