Agrifood Systems Waste Disposal — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) by country

Name: Agrifood Systems Waste Disposal — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5)
Creator: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)

Countries reporting

239

Highest

321,635 kt

China

Lowest

0.0008 kt

Tokelau

Median

995 kt

Years covered

1990–2023

Data points

8,948

What the numbers show

Agrifood Systems Waste Disposal — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) is currently reported for 239 countries. The highest value is 321,635 kt in China; the lowest is 0.0008 kt in Tokelau.

The median across all reporting countries is 995 kt, and the mean is 8,461 kt.

Over the past decade 179 countries rose and 60 fell. The largest increase was in Serbia and Montenegro (up 229.0%), and the largest decrease in Tokelau (down 67.2%).

Agrifood Systems Waste Disposal — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) (Agrifood): full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	China	321,635 kt	2023	up 2.6%	rising
2	China, mainland	317,232 kt	2023	up 2.7%	rising
3	OECD	299,414 kt	2023	down 1.9%	rising
4	India	170,768 kt	2023	up 5.7%	rising
5	Brazil	82,319 kt	2023	down 3.0%	rising
6	Indonesia	77,689 kt	2023	up 3.1%	rising
7	Mexico	61,572 kt	2023	up 6.6%	rising
8	Pakistan	34,838 kt	2023	up 7.7%	rising
9	Türkiye	34,035 kt	2023	up 11.5%	rising
10	Nigeria	33,078 kt	2023	up 5.9%	rising
11	Russian Federation	32,833 kt	2023	down 1.2%	rising
12	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	19,163 kt	2023	up 5.3%	rising
13	Bangladesh	18,142 kt	2023	up 7.1%	rising
14	Thailand	17,974 kt	2023	down 1.1%	rising
15	Egypt	17,863 kt	2023	up 4.4%	rising
16	Spain	13,554 kt	2023	down 2.9%	falling
17	Caribbean	12,446 kt	2023	down 12.2%	rising
18	Colombia	12,338 kt	2023	up 2.4%	rising
19	Japan	12,061 kt	2023	down 2.4%	flat
20	Iraq	11,799 kt	2023	up 7.1%	rising
21	Philippines	11,762 kt	2023	up 5.2%	rising
22	Argentina	11,697 kt	2023	up 0.3%	rising
23	Poland	11,678 kt	2023	up 13.6%	rising
24	Saudi Arabia	10,837 kt	2023	up 9.3%	rising
25	United Republic of Tanzania	10,001 kt	2023	up 9.5%	rising
26	South Africa	9,656 kt	2023	up 2.1%	rising
27	Algeria	9,594 kt	2023	up 7.6%	rising
28	Peru	9,501 kt	2023	up 2.5%	rising
29	Ukraine	9,294 kt	2023	down 6.8%	rising
30	Ethiopia	9,272 kt	2023	up 18.1%	rising
31	Democratic Republic of the Congo	9,269 kt	2023	up 15.4%	rising
32	Germany	9,089 kt	2023	down 13.0%	volatile
33	Viet Nam	8,871 kt	2023	up 6.3%	rising
34	Republic of Korea	8,642 kt	2023	down 10.1%	flat
35	France	8,437 kt	2023	down 35.5%	rising
36	Myanmar	7,783 kt	2023	up 1.8%	rising
37	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	7,737 kt	2023	down 0.4%	falling
38	Canada	7,575 kt	2023	up 1.1%	rising
39	Italy	7,233 kt	2023	down 52.5%	falling
40	Malaysia	7,033 kt	2023	up 3.3%	rising
41	Kenya	6,873 kt	2023	up 7.8%	rising
42	Australia and New Zealand	6,608 kt	2023	up 2.6%	rising
43	Morocco	6,044 kt	2023	up 5.6%	rising
44	Uganda	6,013 kt	2023	up 10.7%	rising
45	Chile	5,528 kt	2023	up 5.3%	rising
46	Australia	5,363 kt	2023	up 0.4%	rising
47	Greece	5,188 kt	2023	down 1.0%	flat
48	Ecuador	4,735 kt	2023	up 12.8%	rising
49	Ghana	4,701 kt	2023	up 8.1%	rising
50	Côte d'Ivoire	4,488 kt	2023	up 9.1%	rising
51	Dominican Republic	4,272 kt	2023	up 2.8%	rising
52	Romania	4,177 kt	2023	down 1.2%	rising
53	Sudan	4,130 kt	2023	up 16.8%	rising
54	Syrian Arab Republic	3,927 kt	2023	up 1.9%	rising
55	Afghanistan	3,863 kt	2023	up 32.7%	volatile
56	Uzbekistan	3,808 kt	2023	up 25.7%	rising
57	Madagascar	3,426 kt	2023	up 8.2%	rising
58	Sri Lanka	3,401 kt	2023	up 3.4%	rising
59	Guatemala	3,319 kt	2023	up 3.3%	rising
60	Nepal	3,268 kt	2023	up 5.2%	rising
61	Hungary	3,244 kt	2023	up 6.9%	rising
62	Portugal	3,173 kt	2023	up 7.7%	rising
63	Rwanda	3,094 kt	2023	up 6.0%	rising
64	China, Hong Kong SAR	3,068 kt	2023	up 1.3%	rising
65	Mozambique	2,995 kt	2023	up 12.0%	rising
66	Yemen	2,989 kt	2023	down 7.7%	rising
67	Haiti	2,889 kt	2023	up 3.0%	rising
68	Mongolia	2,874 kt	2023	up 10.9%	rising
69	Angola	2,864 kt	2023	up 17.4%	rising
70	Tunisia	2,774 kt	2023	up 1.3%	rising
71	Israel	2,751 kt	2023	up 6.3%	rising
72	Burkina Faso	2,604 kt	2023	up 14.9%	rising
73	Kazakhstan	2,541 kt	2023	up 2.4%	rising
74	Senegal	2,522 kt	2023	up 11.6%	rising
75	Niger	2,494 kt	2023	up 19.2%	rising
76	United Arab Emirates	2,456 kt	2023	up 11.6%	rising
77	Cameroon	2,444 kt	2023	up 14.0%	rising
78	Belarus	2,345 kt	2023	up 0.1%	rising
79	Azerbaijan	2,326 kt	2023	up 8.6%	rising
80	Sudan (former)	2,249 kt	2011	up 15.0%	rising
81	Jordan	2,152 kt	2023	up 11.5%	rising
82	Zambia	2,133 kt	2023	up 8.8%	rising
83	Honduras	2,123 kt	2023	up 4.3%	rising
84	Czechia	2,099 kt	2023	down 1.5%	rising
85	Republic of Moldova	2,047 kt	2023	up 1.6%	rising
86	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	2,021 kt	2023	up 3.2%	falling
87	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	1,997 kt	2023	up 6.8%	rising
88	Somalia	1,983 kt	2023	up 14.8%	rising
89	Serbia	1,981 kt	2023	up 2.2%	rising
90	Belgium-Luxembourg	1,958 kt	1999	down 8.0%	flat
91	Nicaragua	1,926 kt	2023	up 1.7%	rising
92	Panama	1,868 kt	2023	up 3.2%	rising
93	Kuwait	1,802 kt	2023	up 8.5%	rising
94	Cambodia	1,764 kt	2023	up 7.0%	rising
95	El Salvador	1,759 kt	2023	up 0.5%	rising
96	Paraguay	1,687 kt	2023	up 1.5%	rising
97	Austria	1,673 kt	2023	down 2.2%	rising
98	Chad	1,656 kt	2023	up 21.4%	rising
99	Lebanon	1,629 kt	2023	up 1.3%	rising
100	Serbia and Montenegro	1,615 kt	2005	up 229.0%	volatile
101	Mali	1,580 kt	2023	up 19.1%	rising
102	Costa Rica	1,535 kt	2023	up 1.2%	rising
103	Burundi	1,500 kt	2023	up 15.9%	rising
104	Switzerland	1,340 kt	2023	up 2.2%	rising
105	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	1,333 kt	2023	down 16.5%	rising
106	Libya	1,308 kt	2023	up 5.2%	rising
107	New Zealand	1,245 kt	2023	up 13.0%	rising
108	Jamaica	1,242 kt	2023	up 0.5%	rising
109	Cuba	1,234 kt	2023	down 61.0%	falling
110	Tajikistan	1,233 kt	2023	up 9.6%	rising
111	Palestine	1,192 kt	2023	up 16.2%	rising
112	Zimbabwe	1,170 kt	2023	up 9.5%	rising
113	Togo	1,163 kt	2023	up 8.1%	rising
114	Slovakia	1,117 kt	2023	down 0.5%	flat
115	China, Taiwan Province of	1,117 kt	2023	down 5.9%	flat
116	Belgium	1,106 kt	2023	down 59.2%	falling
117	Uruguay	1,066 kt	2023	down 1.5%	rising
118	Puerto Rico	1,048 kt	2023	down 0.0%	rising
119	Croatia	1,003 kt	2023	down 1.0%	rising
120	Guinea	995 kt	2023	up 15.8%	rising
121	Bulgaria	974.25 kt	2023	down 1.7%	falling
122	Benin	939.11 kt	2023	up 20.7%	rising
123	Bosnia and Herzegovina	876.59 kt	2023	up 2.8%	rising
124	Sweden	870.45 kt	2023	up 4.9%	falling
125	Malawi	863.82 kt	2023	up 29.0%	rising
126	Kyrgyzstan	840.34 kt	2023	up 1.7%	rising
127	Trinidad and Tobago	796.57 kt	2023	up 0.1%	rising
128	Ireland	770.5 kt	2023	up 3.1%	rising
129	Albania	768.35 kt	2023	up 12.1%	rising
130	Sierra Leone	752.11 kt	2023	up 9.8%	rising
131	Qatar	648.61 kt	2023	up 11.8%	rising
132	Georgia	626.45 kt	2023	up 2.7%	rising
133	Lithuania	612.39 kt	2023	down 2.1%	rising
134	Liberia	603.99 kt	2023	up 8.7%	rising
135	Central African Republic	598.97 kt	2023	up 3.7%	rising
136	Finland	586.99 kt	2023	up 0.0%	volatile
137	Melanesia	583.65 kt	2023	up 16.4%	rising
138	Lao People's Democratic Republic	580.38 kt	2023	up 9.8%	rising
139	Turkmenistan	567.68 kt	2023	up 15.7%	rising
140	Oman	562.52 kt	2023	up 14.2%	rising
141	Bahrain	552.57 kt	2023	up 7.7%	rising
142	Armenia	530.2 kt	2023	down 4.7%	rising
143	Latvia	523.59 kt	2023	down 4.2%	rising
144	Mauritania	517.24 kt	2023	up 14.1%	rising
145	Norway	481.2 kt	2023	down 65.8%	volatile
146	Denmark	470.15 kt	2023	down 1.6%	volatile
147	South Sudan	469.93 kt	2023	up 3.1%	flat
148	Papua New Guinea	465.71 kt	2023	up 20.3%	rising
149	Slovenia	455.88 kt	2023	up 3.0%	flat
150	North Macedonia	435.01 kt	2023	up 1.3%	rising
151	Congo	382.02 kt	2023	up 15.6%	rising
152	Cyprus	379.68 kt	2023	up 3.6%	rising
153	Singapore	325.8 kt	2023	up 5.6%	rising
154	Estonia	303.76 kt	2023	up 0.3%	rising
155	Belize	293.69 kt	2023	up 0.4%	rising
156	Guinea-Bissau	285.66 kt	2023	up 8.3%	rising
157	Bahamas	261.69 kt	2023	up 1.3%	rising
158	Mauritius	236.46 kt	2023	down 5.5%	flat
159	Gambia	234.85 kt	2023	up 13.9%	rising
160	China, Macao SAR	217.85 kt	2023	up 3.1%	rising
161	Namibia	202.29 kt	2023	up 13.7%	rising
162	Malta	195.7 kt	2023	up 5.7%	rising
163	Montenegro	195.21 kt	2023	up 7.6%	rising
164	Gabon	195.1 kt	2023	up 13.5%	rising
165	Guyana	184.53 kt	2023	up 0.6%	flat
166	Botswana	179.66 kt	2023	up 8.5%	rising
167	Brunei Darussalam	174.36 kt	2023	down 0.2%	rising
168	Barbados	164.56 kt	2023	up 0.0%	flat
169	Iceland	144.31 kt	2023	up 1.8%	rising
170	Equatorial Guinea	131.2 kt	2023	up 13.4%	rising
171	Eritrea	128.85 kt	2023	up 9.1%	rising
172	Eswatini	124.59 kt	2023	down 12.5%	rising
173	Bhutan	122.14 kt	2023	up 8.3%	rising
174	Luxembourg	118.36 kt	2023	up 7.1%	rising
175	United States Virgin Islands	117.78 kt	2023	down 14.5%	volatile
176	Lesotho	116.37 kt	2023	up 3.3%	rising
177	Cabo Verde	111.22 kt	2023	up 4.7%	rising
178	Djibouti	108.87 kt	2023	up 11.9%	rising
179	Timor-Leste	96.66 kt	2023	up 12.7%	rising
180	Saint Lucia	92.86 kt	2023	up 1.9%	rising
181	Suriname	88.03 kt	2023	up 2.0%	rising
182	Comoros	86.41 kt	2023	up 8.4%	rising
183	Aruba	82.38 kt	2023	up 1.2%	rising
184	Maldives	69.63 kt	2023	up 10.2%	rising
185	Fiji	55.48 kt	2023	down 11.8%	flat
186	Seychelles	53.73 kt	2023	up 3.8%	rising
187	Cayman Islands	45.12 kt	2023	up 6.6%	volatile
188	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	37.57 kt	2023	up 1.0%	rising
189	Saint Kitts and Nevis	35.41 kt	2023	up 1.1%	rising
190	Antigua and Barbuda	34.75 kt	2023	up 2.3%	rising
191	Grenada	33.8 kt	2023	up 2.8%	rising
192	Solomon Islands	33.79 kt	2023	up 32.6%	rising
193	Channel Islands	31.6 kt	2023	up 30.1%	rising
194	Polynesia	30.45 kt	2023	up 1.3%	rising
195	Curaçao	30.45 kt	2023	up 3.1%	flat
196	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	23.53 kt	2023	down 46.3%	falling
197	Micronesia	21.38 kt	2023	up 1.5%	rising
198	Sao Tome and Principe	18.13 kt	2023	up 11.3%	rising
199	Dominica	16.59 kt	2023	up 0.5%	rising
200	Andorra	16.21 kt	2023	up 2.1%	rising
201	New Caledonia	14.79 kt	2023	up 4.0%	rising
202	Vanuatu	13.88 kt	2023	up 20.8%	rising
203	Faroe Islands	13.5 kt	2023	up 3.4%	rising
204	French Polynesia	13.09 kt	2023	up 2.4%	rising
205	Samoa	10.08 kt	2023	up 8.5%	rising
206	Réunion	9.98 kt	2023	down 0.2%	falling
207	Liechtenstein	7.88 kt	2023	down 7.3%	rising
208	Isle of Man	7.4 kt	2023	down 25.1%	rising
209	Bermuda	7.18 kt	2023	up 0.8%	rising
210	San Marino	6.14 kt	2023	up 5.5%	rising
211	Guam	5.97 kt	2023	up 0.0%	rising
212	Kiribati	5.9 kt	2023	up 16.4%	rising
213	Tonga	5.08 kt	2023	down 6.2%	flat
214	Guadeloupe	5.02 kt	2023	down 7.3%	falling
215	Micronesia (Federated States of)	4.92 kt	2023	up 3.4%	flat
216	Monaco	4.61 kt	2023	up 5.1%	rising
217	Greenland	2.88 kt	2023	down 1.6%	rising
218	Gibraltar	1.81 kt	2023	up 18.7%	rising
219	Marshall Islands	1.79 kt	2023	down 20.6%	falling
220	American Samoa	1.73 kt	2023	down 11.8%	flat
221	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.65 kt	2023	up 37.3%	rising
222	Northern Mariana Islands	1.61 kt	2023	down 14.4%	falling
223	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1.53 kt	2023	up 19.2%	rising
224	British Virgin Islands	1.4 kt	2023	up 21.1%	rising
225	Netherlands Antilles (former)	1.28 kt	2010	up 0.6%	rising
226	Saint Martin (French Part)	0.9842 kt	2023	down 26.5%	falling
227	Palau	0.6342 kt	2023	up 0.4%	flat
228	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	0.5653 kt	2023	down 9.2%	rising
229	Nauru	0.5423 kt	2023	up 11.3%	rising
230	Tuvalu	0.4399 kt	2023	down 12.4%	rising
231	Martinique	0.4375 kt	2023	down 49.9%	falling
232	Western Sahara	0.096 kt	2023	down 60.7%	falling
233	French Guiana	0.0749 kt	2023	down 43.4%	falling
234	Montserrat	0.0356 kt	2023	down 60.9%	falling
235	Cook Islands	0.0204 kt	2023	down 63.4%	falling
236	Wallis and Futuna Islands	0.0137 kt	2023	down 62.6%	falling
237	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.0072 kt	2023	down 2.6%	volatile
238	Niue	0.0031 kt	2023	down 60.4%	falling
239	Tokelau	0.0008 kt	2023	down 67.2%	falling

Regions and income groups

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

World 1.45 million kt
Chagai 31.6 kt
Non-Annex I countries 1.18 million kt
Asia 823,108 kt
Eastern Asia 345,235 kt
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 313,062 kt
Americas 304,130 kt
Annex I countries 274,161 kt
Southern Asia 253,635 kt
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 221,961 kt
Africa 177,037 kt
Europe 141,241 kt
South-eastern Asia 134,054 kt
South America 132,475 kt
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 116,969 kt
Northern America 84,812 kt
Western Asia 81,194 kt
European Union (27) 81,054 kt
United States of America 77,227 kt
Central America 74,397 kt
Eastern Europe 69,809 kt
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 62,589 kt
Western Africa 57,069 kt
Eastern Africa 50,418 kt
Northern Africa 41,713 kt
Southern Europe 35,081 kt
Western Europe 23,798 kt
Middle Africa 17,558 kt
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 15,490 kt
Northern Europe 12,552 kt
Southern Africa 10,279 kt
Central Asia 8,990 kt
Oceania 7,244 kt

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Indicator: Agrifood Systems Waste Disposal — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5)
Unit: kt
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 272 places, 8,948 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed: 23 October 2026

The FAOSTAT domain Emissions from Pre- and Post-Agricultural Production provides estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and related activity data associated with pre- and post-production stages of agrifood systems. The domain includes methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), fluorinated gases (F-gases) and their aggregates expressed in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq). Estimates are computed following Tier 1 methods of the IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (IPCC, 1996; 1997; 2000; 2002; 2006; 2014) and are disseminated annually.