Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC by country

Countries reporting

Highest

6,015 kt

Brazil

Lowest

0.3484 kt

Hungary

Median

28.62 kt

Years covered

1990–2020

Data points

1,028

What the numbers show

Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 6,015 kt in Brazil; the lowest is 0.3484 kt in Hungary.

The median across all reporting countries is 28.62 kt, and the mean is 345.22 kt.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 17,263.

Over the past decade 18 countries rose and 20 fell. The largest increase was in Hungary (up 412.4%), and the largest decrease in Mauritius (down 77.3%).

Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Brazil	6,015 kt	2015	up 26.6%	rising
2	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4,560 kt	2003	down 20.7%	falling
3	Mexico	1,330 kt	2013	up 15.9%	rising
4	Romania	755.06 kt	2020	up 24.2%	falling
5	Australia	224.14 kt	2020	down 15.8%	falling
6	Uzbekistan	217.34 kt	2004	up 196.6%	rising
7	Argentina	210.07 kt	2012	down 14.4%	falling
8	Türkiye	184.64 kt	2020	down 20.9%	falling
9	Kenya	166.5 kt	2010	up 66.7%	volatile
10	Guyana	157.09 kt	2004	unchanged	flat
11	Japan	89.18 kt	2020	down 13.0%	falling
12	Canada	56.72 kt	2020	up 55.8%	volatile
13	Portugal	53.9 kt	2020	up 2.9%	falling
14	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	47 kt	2004	up 34.9%	rising
15	Malaysia	42.5 kt	2011	up 21.5%	rising
16	Poland	42.08 kt	2020	up 30.0%	rising
17	France	39.41 kt	2020	down 34.2%	falling
18	Bulgaria	33.52 kt	2020	up 20.0%	rising
19	Greece	32.08 kt	2020	down 34.6%	falling
20	Chile	30.8 kt	2016	down 44.0%	volatile
21	Ghana	29.04 kt	2006	down 5.2%	rising
22	Spain	28.2 kt	2020	up 101.4%	volatile
23	New Zealand	26.04 kt	2020	down 16.7%	falling
24	Republic of Korea	24.9 kt	2016	down 21.9%	falling
25	Italy	20.22 kt	2020	down 2.1%	flat
26	Haiti	13.01 kt	2000	unchanged	flat
27	Georgia	12.45 kt	2013	up 369.8%	volatile
28	North Macedonia	12.17 kt	2009	up 38.1%	rising
29	Kyrgyzstan	9.59 kt	2010	down 8.1%	rising
30	Jamaica	9.37 kt	2012	down 2.9%	falling
31	Azerbaijan	6.16 kt	2012	down 29.0%	falling
32	Denmark	5.36 kt	2020	up 54.4%	rising
33	Norway	4.01 kt	2020	down 8.3%	volatile
34	Palau	3.36 kt	1999	—	volatile
35	Finland	2.4 kt	2020	up 21.8%	falling
36	Mauritius	2.24 kt	2013	down 77.3%	falling
37	Albania	1.12 kt	2009	unchanged	rising
38	Myanmar	0.9751 kt	2005	up 17.3%	rising
39	Belize	0.56 kt	2009	down 70.2%	volatile
40	Cyprus	0.5503 kt	2020	down 5.6%	volatile
41	Austria	0.5166 kt	2020	down 58.3%	falling
42	Hungary	0.3484 kt	2020	up 412.4%	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: Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC
Unit: kt
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 48 places, 1,028 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed: 13 August 2026

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