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Agrifood systems — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) by country

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...

Countries reporting
223
Highest
1.05 million kt
OECD
Lowest
0 kt
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
Median
3,191 kt
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
9,163

What the numbers show

Agrifood systems — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) is currently reported for 223 countries. The highest value is 1.05 million kt in OECD; the lowest is 0 kt in Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 3,191 kt, and the mean is 31,355 kt.

Over the past decade 118 countries rose and 99 fell. The largest increase was in French Guiana (up 683.4%), and the largest decrease in Western Sahara (down 60.7%).

Agrifood systems — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 OECD 1.05 million kt 2023 up 2.3% falling
2 India 758,524 kt 2023 up 7.0% rising
3 China (People’s Republic of) 708,041 kt 2023 up 2.5% rising
4 China, mainland 701,912 kt 2023 up 2.6% rising
5 Brazil 498,611 kt 2023 up 9.4% rising
6 Indonesia 238,659 kt 2023 up 9.7% falling
7 Pakistan 206,168 kt 2023 up 30.4% rising
8 Australia and New Zealand 160,478 kt 2023 up 25.2% falling
9 Mexico 131,519 kt 2023 up 8.8% rising
10 Australia 130,426 kt 2023 up 37.1% falling
11 Argentina 105,714 kt 2023 up 3.1% flat
12 Ethiopia 98,558 kt 2023 up 28.5% rising
13 Nigeria 89,558 kt 2023 up 15.8% rising
14 Russian Federation 87,210 kt 2023 down 6.0% falling
15 Bangladesh 85,920 kt 2023 up 4.7% rising
16 Thailand 79,867 kt 2023 down 3.6% rising
17 Sudan (former) 78,068 kt 2011 up 12.5% rising
18 Chad 69,354 kt 2023 up 71.2% rising
19 Colombia 67,972 kt 2023 up 19.9% rising
20 Philippines 66,901 kt 2023 up 0.9% rising
21 Myanmar 62,923 kt 2023 down 17.3% rising
22 Sudan 56,544 kt 2023 up 2.6% flat
23 France 48,550 kt 2023 down 18.4% falling
24 Kenya 42,843 kt 2023 up 22.4% rising
25 Germany 39,018 kt 2023 down 15.5% falling
26 Spain 38,879 kt 2023 up 1.7% falling
27 Canada 36,586 kt 2023 up 2.2% flat
28 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 36,018 kt 2023 down 1.6% falling
29 Uzbekistan 31,639 kt 2023 up 37.0% rising
30 South Sudan 30,966 kt 2023 up 5.2% rising
31 New Zealand 30,052 kt 2023 down 9.2% flat
32 Peru 29,740 kt 2023 up 3.7% rising
33 Egypt 29,371 kt 2023 down 14.6% rising
34 Mali 29,033 kt 2023 up 43.3% rising
35 Italy 28,432 kt 2023 down 23.2% falling
36 Angola 27,909 kt 2023 down 11.0% rising
37 Poland 27,868 kt 2023 up 5.2% falling
38 South Africa 27,668 kt 2023 down 3.5% flat
39 Niger 27,252 kt 2023 up 42.9% rising
40 Uganda 25,724 kt 2023 up 17.2% rising
41 Paraguay 25,218 kt 2023 up 1.0% rising
41 Cook Islands 10.93 kt 2023 down 26.9% flat
42 Cambodia 24,031 kt 2023 up 7.1% rising
42 Niue 1.32 kt 2023 up 6.2% rising
43 Japan 23,063 kt 2023 down 5.7% falling
43 Tokelau 0.9864 kt 2023 up 130.5% rising
44 Madagascar 22,690 kt 2023 up 13.5% flat
44 Anguilla 0.0689 kt 2023 up 23.3% rising
45 Uruguay 22,614 kt 2023 down 0.1% rising
45 Montserrat 0.0461 kt 2023 down 56.0% volatile
46 Mongolia 22,384 kt 2023 up 52.3% rising
47 Zambia 21,951 kt 2023 down 15.3% rising
47 Mayotte 0.0007 kt 2023 unchanged volatile
48 Nepal 20,306 kt 2023 down 19.7% rising
49 Somalia 19,927 kt 2023 up 0.9% rising
50 Guinea 19,139 kt 2023 up 36.5% rising
51 Kazakhstan 19,018 kt 2023 up 12.2% flat
52 Republic of Korea 18,632 kt 2023 down 3.5% flat
53 Burkina Faso 18,519 kt 2023 up 13.9% rising
54 Central African Republic 18,008 kt 2023 down 17.8% rising
55 Saudi Arabia 17,816 kt 2023 up 37.7% rising
56 Algeria 17,526 kt 2023 up 9.4% rising
57 Ukraine 16,980 kt 2023 down 31.0% falling
58 Ireland 16,521 kt 2023 down 2.1% flat
59 Afghanistan 15,859 kt 2023 up 3.3% rising
60 Iraq 15,799 kt 2023 down 0.9% rising
61 Mozambique 14,928 kt 2023 down 11.4% rising
62 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 14,062 kt 2023 down 7.2% falling
63 Morocco 13,717 kt 2023 up 1.9% rising
64 Ecuador 13,378 kt 2023 down 15.1% flat
65 Belarus 12,264 kt 2023 down 4.1% falling
66 Romania 12,187 kt 2023 down 6.9% falling
67 Nicaragua 11,945 kt 2023 up 19.0% rising
68 Malaysia 11,524 kt 2023 down 14.4% falling
69 Chile 11,169 kt 2023 down 0.2% flat
70 Ghana 11,143 kt 2023 up 14.2% rising
71 Belgium-Luxembourg 11,051 kt 1999 down 1.4% flat
72 Senegal 10,980 kt 2023 up 17.6% rising
73 Dominican Republic 10,911 kt 2023 up 5.2% rising
74 Guatemala 10,804 kt 2023 up 12.9% rising
75 Cameroon 10,658 kt 2023 up 2.0% rising
76 Greece 9,166 kt 2023 down 7.9% falling
77 Zimbabwe 8,781 kt 2023 down 1.4% rising
78 Sri Lanka 8,668 kt 2023 down 0.9% flat
79 Yemen 8,489 kt 2023 up 1.3% rising
80 Turkmenistan 8,157 kt 2023 up 10.3% rising
81 Mauritania 8,146 kt 2023 up 15.8% rising
82 Cuba 8,107 kt 2023 down 31.9% falling
83 Botswana 8,033 kt 2023 up 66.2% falling
84 Portugal 7,971 kt 2023 up 2.6% rising
85 Honduras 7,701 kt 2023 up 7.9% rising
86 Belgium 7,250 kt 2023 down 22.8% falling
87 Tajikistan 6,738 kt 2023 up 16.6% rising
88 Denmark 6,701 kt 2023 down 8.4% falling
89 Austria 6,469 kt 2023 down 5.8% falling
90 Serbia and Montenegro 6,322 kt 2005 down 20.8% falling
91 Azerbaijan 6,281 kt 2023 down 4.5% rising
92 Haiti 5,909 kt 2023 up 3.6% rising
93 Hungary 5,846 kt 2023 up 4.2% flat
94 Malawi 5,641 kt 2023 up 69.0% rising
95 Costa Rica 5,530 kt 2023 up 33.3% flat
96 Namibia 5,356 kt 2023 up 5.5% rising
97 Kyrgyzstan 5,222 kt 2023 up 19.1% rising
98 Czechia 5,213 kt 2023 down 1.5% falling
99 Switzerland 5,159 kt 2023 down 4.2% falling
100 Tunisia 4,999 kt 2023 down 2.6% rising
101 Benin 4,912 kt 2023 up 24.5% rising
102 Serbia 4,901 kt 2023 down 13.1% falling
103 Rwanda 4,873 kt 2023 up 5.3% rising
104 Panama 4,573 kt 2023 down 4.2% rising
105 Sweden 4,084 kt 2023 down 10.4% falling
106 United Arab Emirates 3,986 kt 2023 up 17.0% rising
107 Sierra Leone 3,818 kt 2023 up 12.2% rising
108 Burundi 3,762 kt 2023 up 44.8% rising
109 Eritrea 3,557 kt 2023 up 5.1% rising
110 China, Taiwan Province of 3,451 kt 2023 down 12.4% falling
111 Israel 3,407 kt 2023 up 8.1% rising
112 Libya 3,191 kt 2023 up 5.0% rising
113 El Salvador 3,186 kt 2023 down 5.7% falling
114 Norway 3,164 kt 2023 down 23.8% flat
115 Togo 3,076 kt 2023 up 15.0% rising
116 Jordan 2,823 kt 2023 up 13.1% rising
117 Bulgaria 2,772 kt 2023 down 5.4% falling
118 Finland 2,715 kt 2023 down 13.5% falling
119 China, Hong Kong SAR 2,470 kt 2023 up 1.0% rising
120 Lithuania 2,287 kt 2023 down 17.8% falling
121 Croatia 2,151 kt 2023 down 14.2% falling
122 Albania 2,141 kt 2023 down 27.2% falling
123 Slovak Republic 2,140 kt 2023 down 10.2% falling
124 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2,045 kt 2023 down 18.8% flat
125 Kuwait 2,030 kt 2023 up 11.7% rising
126 Congo 1,889 kt 2023 down 10.8% rising
127 Lebanon 1,876 kt 2023 up 1.9% rising
128 Oman 1,866 kt 2023 up 18.8% rising
129 Georgia 1,763 kt 2023 down 17.0% flat
130 Guyana 1,693 kt 2023 up 0.4% rising
131 Papua New Guinea 1,625 kt 2023 up 12.8% volatile
132 Guinea-Bissau 1,567 kt 2023 down 8.1% rising
133 Slovenia 1,505 kt 2023 down 3.7% falling
134 Latvia 1,498 kt 2023 down 10.3% falling
135 Puerto Rico 1,408 kt 2023 down 3.9% falling
136 Jamaica 1,392 kt 2023 down 1.7% falling
137 Palestinian Authority or West Bank and Gaza Strip 1,388 kt 2023 up 16.6% rising
138 Armenia 1,183 kt 2023 down 14.7% rising
139 Gambia 1,120 kt 2023 down 7.2% rising
140 North Macedonia 1,063 kt 2023 down 21.8% falling
141 Qatar 994.93 kt 2023 up 30.6% rising
142 Estonia 926.82 kt 2023 down 7.0% falling
143 Lesotho 909.06 kt 2023 down 12.8% falling
144 Liberia 878.6 kt 2023 up 6.1% rising
145 Trinidad and Tobago 789.89 kt 2023 down 0.5% rising
146 Eswatini 759.33 kt 2023 down 14.7% falling
147 Djibouti 636.21 kt 2023 up 3.9% rising
148 Bahrain 563.39 kt 2023 up 7.9% rising
149 Suriname 555.47 kt 2023 down 11.7% falling
150 Belize 552.38 kt 2023 down 6.0% rising
151 Luxembourg 547.43 kt 2023 down 0.7% flat
152 Bhutan 506.8 kt 2023 down 11.3% rising
153 Cyprus 496.53 kt 2023 down 9.1% rising
154 Iceland 476.8 kt 2023 up 0.3% flat
155 Fiji 448.83 kt 2023 down 41.3% falling
156 Montenegro 447.1 kt 2023 down 9.7% falling
157 Gabon 442.02 kt 2023 down 1.1% rising
158 Malta 250.57 kt 2023 down 0.1% flat
159 Mauritius 245.78 kt 2023 down 7.5% falling
160 Singapore 241.44 kt 2023 up 6.5% rising
161 Bahamas 237.76 kt 2023 down 14.7% flat
162 Vanuatu 222.8 kt 2023 down 41.5% falling
163 China, Macao SAR 207.96 kt 2023 up 1.9% rising
164 Brunei Darussalam 188.28 kt 2023 down 0.8% volatile
165 Barbados 176.83 kt 2023 down 0.4% falling
166 New Caledonia 175.49 kt 2023 down 10.1% falling
167 Comoros 156.44 kt 2023 up 4.7% falling
168 Equatorial Guinea 145.31 kt 2023 up 12.9% rising
169 Samoa 124.39 kt 2023 down 27.8% rising
170 United States Virgin Islands 117.78 kt 2023 up 0.7% volatile
171 Saint Lucia 96.39 kt 2023 up 0.6% flat
172 Solomon Islands 93.47 kt 2023 up 10.9% rising
173 Aruba 71.17 kt 2023 up 1.2% rising
174 Tonga 69.84 kt 2023 up 2.8% rising
175 Maldives 65.38 kt 2023 up 10.8% rising
176 Seychelles 54.49 kt 2023 up 3.9% flat
177 Grenada 46.9 kt 2023 up 8.3% rising
178 Cayman Islands 43.56 kt 2023 up 6.8% volatile
179 Antigua and Barbuda 43.52 kt 2023 down 5.6% falling
180 Dominica 42.74 kt 2023 up 0.2% rising
181 French Polynesia 42.47 kt 2023 up 3.8% flat
182 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 40.55 kt 2023 down 6.8% falling
183 Faroe Islands 39.5 kt 2023 up 13.5% rising
184 Saint Kitts and Nevis 36.92 kt 2023 up 1.2% falling
185 Channel Islands 28.72 kt 2023 up 33.9% volatile
186 Sao Tome and Principe 22.84 kt 2023 up 13.3% rising
187 Andorra 14.12 kt 2023 up 2.5% rising
188 Kiribati 12.04 kt 2023 up 13.7% rising
189 Réunion 9.62 kt 2023 down 0.2% volatile
190 Liechtenstein 7.88 kt 2023 up 3.0% rising
191 Isle of Man 7.41 kt 2023 down 18.4% rising
192 Tuvalu 6.64 kt 2023 up 3.9% rising
193 San Marino 6.14 kt 2023 up 6.0% rising
194 Guam 5.97 kt 2023 up 0.0% rising
195 Guadeloupe 4.6 kt 2023 down 7.4% volatile
196 Greenland 4.21 kt 2023 up 12.5% rising
197 Monaco 4.09 kt 2023 up 5.5% rising
198 Bermuda 2.87 kt 2023 down 0.6% rising
199 French Guiana 2.1 kt 2023 up 683.4% volatile
200 Gibraltar 2.04 kt 2023 up 21.8% rising
201 American Samoa 1.93 kt 2023 down 11.1% flat
202 Netherlands Antilles (former) 1.9 kt 2010 up 11.8% rising
203 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.8 kt 2023 up 36.5% rising
204 Nauru 1.71 kt 2023 up 3.4% rising
205 Northern Mariana Islands 1.62 kt 2023 down 14.4% falling
206 British Virgin Islands 1.45 kt 2023 up 19.6% rising
207 Marshall Islands 1.44 kt 2023 down 22.6% falling
208 Palau 0.668 kt 2023 down 1.5% flat
209 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0.5041 kt 2023 down 2.4% falling
210 Martinique 0.4184 kt 2023 down 49.1% volatile
211 Western Sahara 0.0891 kt 2023 down 60.7% falling
212 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.0508 kt 2023 down 11.7% volatile
213 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0.0025 kt 2023 unchanged falling
214 Norfolk Island 0 kt 2023 — volatile
214 Pitcairn 0 kt 2023 — volatile
214 Holy See 0 kt 2023 — flat
214 Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat

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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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Indicator
Agrifood systems — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5)
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
276 places, 9,163 data points, 1990–2023
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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