All sectors without LULUCF — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5), per square kilometre by country
All sectors without LULUCF — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (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.
What the numbers show
All sectors without LULUCF — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5), per square kilometre is currently reported for 194 countries. The highest value is 1.95 kt per square kilometre in Monaco; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Greenland.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0267 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0567 kt per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 118 countries rose and 75 fell. The largest increase was in Brunei (up 307.9%), and the largest decrease in Bermuda (down 72.7%).
All sectors without LULUCF … N2O CO2eq square kilometre: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monaco | 1.95 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Singapore | 1.8 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.4% | volatile |
| 3 | Bahrain | 0.2577 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 4 | Belgium | 0.2551 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.1% | flat |
| 5 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.2534 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 6 | Bangladesh | 0.2072 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 7 | Maldives | 0.1927 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 43.6% | volatile |
| 8 | Malta | 0.1211 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 20.8% | falling |
| 9 | Ireland | 0.1161 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.4% | falling |
| 10 | Denmark | 0.1126 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.6% | falling |
| 11 | United Kingdom | 0.11 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.3% | falling |
| 12 | Israel | 0.1073 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 13 | Barbados | 0.1072 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.2% | falling |
| 14 | India | 0.1003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.8% | rising |
| 15 | Luxembourg | 0.0999 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 21.4% | falling |
| 16 | Lebanon | 0.0963 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 17 | Vietnam | 0.0954 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.5% | rising |
| 18 | Germany | 0.093 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.3% | falling |
| 19 | Mauritius | 0.0922 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 20 | Poland | 0.0899 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 21 | Brunei | 0.0891 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 307.9% | volatile |
| 22 | Pakistan | 0.0887 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 30.4% | rising |
| 23 | Lithuania | 0.0811 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.8% | rising |
| 24 | Qatar | 0.0774 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 51.1% | volatile |
| 25 | Czechia | 0.0763 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.6% | falling |
| 26 | Belarus | 0.0738 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.8% | flat |
| 27 | Burundi | 0.0724 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 56.2% | rising |
| 28 | Seychelles | 0.0717 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 72.8% | rising |
| 29 | Dominican Republic | 0.0706 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.0% | rising |
| 30 | Malawi | 0.069 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 120.5% | volatile |
| 31 | Rwanda | 0.0662 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 32 | Kuwait | 0.0652 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.5% | rising |
| 33 | Slovakia | 0.065 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.9% | rising |
| 34 | Uganda | 0.0633 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.7% | rising |
| 35 | Palau | 0.0618 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.1% | falling |
| 36 | France | 0.0604 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.4% | falling |
| 37 | Haiti | 0.0591 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 38 | Philippines | 0.0569 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 49.1% | rising |
| 39 | Thailand | 0.0561 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.8% | rising |
| 40 | Hungary | 0.0556 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.7% | falling |
| 41 | Switzerland | 0.0529 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 42 | Turkey | 0.0521 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.4% | rising |
| 43 | China | 0.0507 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.9% | rising |
| 44 | Japan | 0.0478 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.2% | falling |
| 45 | Italy | 0.0477 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.1% | falling |
| 46 | San Marino | 0.0476 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.0% | falling |
| 47 | Guatemala | 0.0471 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.1% | rising |
| 48 | New Zealand | 0.047 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.2% | flat |
| 49 | El Salvador | 0.0464 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 17.9% | falling |
| 50 | Aruba | 0.0462 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.0% | rising |
| 51 | Ethiopia | 0.046 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 33.4% | rising |
| 52 | Tuvalu | 0.0451 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 53 | Nigeria | 0.043 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.2% | rising |
| 54 | Romania | 0.0423 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.4% | falling |
| 55 | Uruguay | 0.0423 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 56 | Serbia | 0.0419 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.9% | falling |
| 57 | Nepal | 0.0415 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 58 | Austria | 0.041 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 59 | Costa Rica | 0.04 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.7% | rising |
| 60 | Faroe Islands | 0.039 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 61 | Azerbaijan | 0.0384 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 62 | Grenada | 0.0381 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.9% | rising |
| 63 | Estonia | 0.0381 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.9% | rising |
| 64 | Croatia | 0.0374 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.5% | falling |
| 65 | Togo | 0.0372 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.0% | rising |
| 66 | Indonesia | 0.0369 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.7% | rising |
| 67 | Sri Lanka | 0.0356 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 68 | Uzbekistan | 0.0356 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 38.1% | rising |
| 69 | Slovenia | 0.0356 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.7% | falling |
| 70 | Comoros | 0.0354 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 71 | Spain | 0.0353 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.8% | falling |
| 72 | Bulgaria | 0.0346 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.0% | falling |
| 73 | United Arab Emirates | 0.0343 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 74 | Moldova | 0.0342 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.9% | falling |
| 75 | Latvia | 0.0336 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 76 | Gambia | 0.0334 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 77 | Jamaica | 0.0329 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.5% | falling |
| 78 | Burkina Faso | 0.0329 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.9% | rising |
| 79 | Ukraine | 0.0329 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.1% | falling |
| 80 | Saint Lucia | 0.0328 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.6% | falling |
| 81 | Tonga | 0.0328 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.6% | rising |
| 82 | Kenya | 0.0326 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.7% | rising |
| 83 | Cyprus | 0.0324 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.0% | flat |
| 84 | Greece | 0.0306 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.7% | falling |
| 85 | Albania | 0.0306 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 24.6% | falling |
| 86 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.0305 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.6% | falling |
| 87 | Portugal | 0.0301 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.7% | falling |
| 88 | Cuba | 0.0299 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.9% | falling |
| 89 | Senegal | 0.0294 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.7% | rising |
| 90 | South Sudan | 0.0292 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 91 | Nicaragua | 0.0288 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.5% | rising |
| 92 | Benin | 0.0284 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 39.4% | rising |
| 93 | Nauru | 0.0277 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.9% | rising |
| 94 | Cambodia | 0.0276 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.2% | rising |
| 95 | Guinea | 0.0275 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.1% | rising |
| 96 | Eswatini | 0.0271 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.9% | flat |
| 97 | Georgia | 0.0267 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.1% | flat |
| 98 | Palestine | 0.0266 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.9% | rising |
| 99 | Malaysia | 0.0264 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.1% | rising |
| 100 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.0258 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 101 | Ghana | 0.0257 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.0% | rising |
| 102 | United States | 0.0254 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.5% | falling |
| 103 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.0253 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.3% | rising |
| 104 | Honduras | 0.0247 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.1% | rising |
| 105 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.0239 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.7% | falling |
| 106 | Syria | 0.0234 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.5% | falling |
| 107 | Armenia | 0.0234 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 31.3% | rising |
| 108 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.0231 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.5% | rising |
| 109 | Chad | 0.0229 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 65.3% | rising |
| 110 | Brazil | 0.0228 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.9% | rising |
| 111 | Paraguay | 0.0225 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 112 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0.0225 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.6% | falling |
| 113 | Finland | 0.0218 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.0% | flat |
| 114 | Egypt | 0.0216 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 115 | Mexico | 0.0213 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 116 | Myanmar | 0.0206 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.1% | rising |
| 117 | Colombia | 0.0198 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.5% | rising |
| 118 | Tunisia | 0.0191 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.9% | rising |
| 119 | North Macedonia | 0.019 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.1% | falling |
| 120 | Lesotho | 0.0187 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.7% | falling |
| 121 | Morocco | 0.0183 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 122 | Panama | 0.0182 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 123 | Marshall Islands | 0.018 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 70.8% | volatile |
| 124 | Andorra | 0.0179 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.7% | volatile |
| 125 | Jordan | 0.0178 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.6% | rising |
| 126 | Sierra Leone | 0.0176 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 127 | Zambia | 0.0176 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 128 | East Timor | 0.0174 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.7% | rising |
| 129 | Tajikistan | 0.0174 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 49.8% | rising |
| 130 | Liechtenstein | 0.0173 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.2% | falling |
| 131 | Samoa | 0.017 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.1% | rising |
| 132 | Laos | 0.0169 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 50.7% | rising |
| 133 | Iraq | 0.0167 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.0% | rising |
| 134 | Dominica | 0.0161 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 135 | South Africa | 0.016 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.2% | flat |
| 136 | Ecuador | 0.0159 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.2% | rising |
| 137 | Argentina | 0.0156 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 138 | Puerto Rico | 0.0148 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 21.2% | falling |
| 139 | Sudan | 0.0146 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.9% | flat |
| 140 | Turkmenistan | 0.0145 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 141 | Sweden | 0.0142 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.8% | falling |
| 142 | Zimbabwe | 0.0142 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 143 | Angola | 0.0139 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.4% | rising |
| 144 | Mozambique | 0.0133 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.8% | rising |
| 145 | Eritrea | 0.0132 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 146 | Botswana | 0.0132 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 100.9% | rising |
| 147 | Australia | 0.0131 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 62.1% | flat |
| 148 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.013 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 149 | Fiji | 0.0126 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 28.2% | falling |
| 150 | Cameroon | 0.0125 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 151 | Central African Republic | 0.0121 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 21.6% | falling |
| 152 | Montenegro | 0.012 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 153 | Mali | 0.0119 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 39.3% | rising |
| 154 | British Virgin Islands | 0.0116 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.9% | rising |
| 155 | Djibouti | 0.0115 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 156 | Madagascar | 0.0113 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.7% | flat |
| 157 | Norway | 0.011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.1% | falling |
| 158 | Chile | 0.01 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.3% | rising |
| 159 | Somalia | 0.0097 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.5% | rising |
| 160 | Belize | 0.0096 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 161 | Niger | 0.0096 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 45.8% | rising |
| 162 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.0095 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 163 | Yemen | 0.0091 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 164 | Mongolia | 0.009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.7% | rising |
| 165 | Kiribati | 0.0087 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.5% | rising |
| 166 | Peru | 0.0068 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 167 | Isle of Man | 0.0067 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 168 | Afghanistan | 0.0067 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 169 | Vanuatu | 0.0063 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 40.1% | falling |
| 170 | Canada | 0.0054 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.5% | flat |
| 171 | Saudi Arabia | 0.0054 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.6% | rising |
| 172 | Liberia | 0.0052 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.1% | rising |
| 173 | Bahamas | 0.005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.5% | rising |
| 174 | Russia | 0.0049 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.1% | flat |
| 175 | Bhutan | 0.0049 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 176 | Congo | 0.0046 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.2% | rising |
| 177 | Oman | 0.0043 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.5% | rising |
| 178 | Namibia | 0.0039 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.3% | rising |
| 179 | Papua New Guinea | 0.0039 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.8% | rising |
| 180 | Kazakhstan | 0.0037 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.8% | flat |
| 181 | Algeria | 0.0035 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 182 | French Polynesia | 0.0034 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 183 | New Caledonia | 0.0033 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.4% | falling |
| 184 | Iceland | 0.0032 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.1% | falling |
| 185 | Mauritania | 0.003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.3% | rising |
| 186 | Guyana | 0.0029 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 187 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 0.0024 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.3% | volatile |
| 188 | Gabon | 0.0024 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.6% | rising |
| 189 | Equatorial Guinea | 0.0018 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.9% | rising |
| 190 | Suriname | 0.0016 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.2% | rising |
| 191 | Bermuda | 0.0015 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 72.7% | volatile |
| 192 | Solomon Islands | 0.0012 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.2% | rising |
| 193 | Libya | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.1% | rising |
| 194 | Greenland | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 0.0222 kt per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
All sectors without LULUCF — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (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.
All sectors without LULUCF — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- All sectors without LULUCF — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
All sectors without LULUCF — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (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.