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All Crops — Burning crop residues (Emissions CH4) — UNFCCC by country

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions from Crops provides estimates of emissions associated with crop processes, namely 1) crop residues, 2) burning of crop residues, and 3) rice cultivation and the application of nitrogen (N) fertilizers, including mineral and chemical fertilizers, to soils. Estimates are computed at...

Countries reporting
42
Highest
172.5 kt
Brazil
Lowest
0.01 kt
Hungary
Median
0.8094 kt
Years covered
31
1990–2020
Data points
904

What the numbers show

All Crops — Burning crop residues (Emissions CH4) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 172.5 kt in Brazil; the lowest is 0.01 kt in Hungary.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.8094 kt, and the mean is 9.98 kt.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 17,250.

Over the past decade 17 countries rose and 20 fell. The largest increase was in Hungary (up 426.3%), and the largest decrease in Mauritius (down 71.4%).

All Crops — Burning crop residues (Emissions CH4) — UNFCCC: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Brazil 172.5 kt 2015 up 26.6% rising
2 Democratic Republic of the Congo 135.7 kt 2003 down 21.0% falling
3 Mexico 37.39 kt 2013 up 15.9% rising
4 Romania 20.92 kt 2020 up 24.2% falling
5 Argentina 6.49 kt 2012 down 13.9% falling
6 Uzbekistan 6.29 kt 2004 up 196.9% rising
7 Australia 5.73 kt 2020 down 16.4% falling
8 Türkiye 5.3 kt 2020 down 20.9% falling
9 Kenya 5 kt 2010 up 66.7% volatile
10 Guyana 4.38 kt 2004 unchanged flat
11 Japan 2.56 kt 2020 down 13.0% falling
12 Canada 1.63 kt 2020 up 55.8% volatile
13 Portugal 1.31 kt 2020 up 2.3% falling
14 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1.3 kt 2004 up 35.4% rising
15 Malaysia 1.25 kt 2011 up 21.5% rising
16 France 1.13 kt 2020 down 34.2% falling
17 Poland 1.11 kt 2020 up 30.2% rising
18 Chile 1.1 kt 2016 down 28.7% volatile
19 Bulgaria 0.9696 kt 2020 up 19.7% rising
20 Greece 0.9238 kt 2020 down 34.6% falling
21 Ghana 0.81 kt 2006 unchanged rising
22 Spain 0.8088 kt 2020 up 101.4% volatile
23 New Zealand 0.799 kt 2020 down 16.7% falling
24 Republic of Korea 0.7 kt 2016 down 26.3% falling
25 Italy 0.5993 kt 2020 down 2.1% flat
26 Haiti 0.37 kt 2000 unchanged flat
27 Georgia 0.35 kt 2013 down 65.0% volatile
28 North Macedonia 0.34 kt 2009 up 54.5% rising
29 Kyrgyzstan 0.2705 kt 2010 down 8.9% rising
30 Jamaica 0.24 kt 2012 down 4.0% falling
31 Azerbaijan 0.22 kt 2012 down 29.0% falling
32 Denmark 0.1538 kt 2020 up 54.4% rising
33 Palau 0.12 kt 1999 — volatile
34 Norway 0.1151 kt 2020 down 8.4% volatile
35 Mauritius 0.08 kt 2013 down 71.4% falling
36 Finland 0.0689 kt 2020 up 21.7% falling
37 Albania 0.04 kt 2009 unchanged rising
38 Myanmar 0.0282 kt 2005 up 17.5% rising
39 Belize 0.02 kt 2009 down 61.5% volatile
40 Austria 0.0168 kt 2020 down 55.2% falling
41 Cyprus 0.0158 kt 2020 down 5.4% volatile
42 Hungary 0.01 kt 2020 up 426.3% volatile

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
All Crops — Burning crop residues (Emissions CH4) — UNFCCC
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
44 places, 904 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions from Crops provides estimates of emissions associated with crop processes, namely 1) crop residues, 2) burning of crop residues, and 3) rice cultivation and the application of nitrogen (N) fertilizers, including mineral and chemical fertilizers, to soils. Estimates are computed at Tier 1 following the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National greenhouse gas (GHG) Inventories (IPCC, 2006).