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Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CH4) — UNFCCC 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
45
Highest
172.5 kt
Brazil
Lowest
0.01 kt
Hungary
Median
0.81 kt
Years covered
31
1990–2020
Data points
1,087

What the numbers show

Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CH4) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 45 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 0.81 kt, and the mean is 9.82 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 23 fell. The largest increase was in Hungary (up 426.3%), and the largest decrease in Mauritius (down 71.4%).

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 United States 17.06 kt 2020 down 6.6% rising
6 Argentina 6.49 kt 2012 down 13.9% falling
7 Uzbekistan 6.29 kt 2004 up 196.9% rising
8 Australia 5.73 kt 2020 down 16.4% falling
9 Turkey 5.3 kt 2020 down 20.9% falling
9 Türkiye 5.3 kt 2020 down 20.9% falling
11 Kenya 5 kt 2010 up 66.7% volatile
12 Guyana 4.38 kt 2004 unchanged flat
13 Japan 2.56 kt 2020 down 13.0% falling
14 Canada 1.63 kt 2020 up 55.8% volatile
15 Portugal 1.31 kt 2020 up 2.3% falling
16 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1.3 kt 2004 up 35.4% rising
17 Malaysia 1.25 kt 2011 up 21.5% rising
18 France 1.13 kt 2020 down 34.2% falling
19 Poland 1.11 kt 2020 up 30.2% rising
20 Chile 1.1 kt 2016 down 28.7% volatile
21 Bulgaria 0.9696 kt 2020 up 19.7% rising
22 Greece 0.9238 kt 2020 down 34.6% falling
23 Ghana 0.81 kt 2006 unchanged rising
24 Spain 0.8088 kt 2020 up 101.4% volatile
25 New Zealand 0.799 kt 2020 down 16.7% falling
26 Republic of Korea 0.7 kt 2016 down 26.3% falling
27 Italy 0.5993 kt 2020 down 2.1% flat
28 Haiti 0.37 kt 2000 unchanged flat
29 Georgia 0.35 kt 2013 down 65.0% volatile
30 North Macedonia 0.34 kt 2009 up 54.5% rising
31 Central African Republic 0.3 kt 2010 down 41.2% rising
32 Kyrgyzstan 0.2705 kt 2010 down 8.9% rising
33 Jamaica 0.24 kt 2012 down 4.0% falling
34 Azerbaijan 0.22 kt 2012 down 29.0% falling
35 Denmark 0.1538 kt 2020 up 54.4% rising
36 Palau 0.12 kt 1999 — volatile
37 Norway 0.1151 kt 2020 down 8.4% volatile
38 Mauritius 0.08 kt 2013 down 71.4% falling
39 Finland 0.0689 kt 2020 up 21.7% falling
40 Albania 0.04 kt 2009 unchanged rising
41 Myanmar 0.0282 kt 2005 up 17.5% rising
42 Belize 0.02 kt 2009 down 61.5% volatile
43 Austria 0.0168 kt 2020 down 55.2% falling
44 Cyprus 0.0158 kt 2020 down 5.4% volatile
45 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.

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Indicator
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
50 places, 1,087 data points, 1990–2020
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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