Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) — 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
42
Highest
4,830 kt
Brazil
Lowest
0.2798 kt
Hungary
Median
22.66 kt
Years covered
31
1990–2020
Data points
1,025

What the numbers show

Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 4,830 kt in Brazil; the lowest is 0.2798 kt in Hungary.

The median across all reporting countries is 22.66 kt, and the mean is 279.42 kt.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 17,262.

Over the past decade 17 countries rose and 20 fell. The largest increase was in Hungary (up 412.5%), and the largest decrease in Mauritius (down 71.4%).

Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) — UNFCCC: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Brazil 4,830 kt 2015 up 26.6% rising
2 Democratic Republic of the Congo 3,800 kt 2003 down 21.0% falling
3 Mexico 1,047 kt 2013 up 15.9% rising
4 Romania 585.69 kt 2020 up 24.2% falling
5 Argentina 181.72 kt 2012 down 13.9% falling
6 Uzbekistan 176.13 kt 2004 up 196.9% rising
7 Australia 160.33 kt 2020 down 16.4% falling
8 Türkiye 148.26 kt 2020 down 20.9% falling
9 Kenya 140 kt 2010 up 66.7% volatile
10 Guyana 122.64 kt 2004 unchanged flat
11 Japan 71.61 kt 2020 down 13.0% falling
12 Canada 45.55 kt 2020 up 55.8% volatile
13 Portugal 36.68 kt 2020 up 2.3% falling
14 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 36.4 kt 2004 up 35.4% rising
15 Malaysia 34.87 kt 2011 up 21.5% rising
16 France 31.65 kt 2020 down 34.2% falling
17 Poland 31 kt 2020 up 30.2% rising
18 Chile 30.8 kt 2016 down 28.7% volatile
19 Bulgaria 27.15 kt 2020 up 19.7% rising
20 Greece 25.87 kt 2020 down 34.6% falling
21 Ghana 22.68 kt 2006 unchanged rising
22 Spain 22.65 kt 2020 up 101.4% volatile
23 New Zealand 22.37 kt 2020 down 16.7% falling
24 Republic of Korea 19.6 kt 2016 down 26.3% falling
25 Italy 16.78 kt 2020 down 2.2% flat
26 Haiti 10.36 kt 2000 unchanged flat
27 Georgia 9.8 kt 2013 down 65.0% volatile
28 North Macedonia 9.52 kt 2009 up 54.5% rising
29 Kyrgyzstan 7.57 kt 2010 down 8.9% rising
30 Jamaica 6.72 kt 2012 down 4.0% falling
31 Azerbaijan 6.16 kt 2012 down 29.0% falling
32 Denmark 4.31 kt 2020 up 54.4% rising
33 Palau 3.36 kt 1999 volatile
34 Norway 3.22 kt 2020 down 8.3% volatile
35 Mauritius 2.24 kt 2013 down 71.4% falling
36 Finland 1.93 kt 2020 up 21.8% falling
37 Albania 1.12 kt 2009 unchanged rising
38 Myanmar 0.7896 kt 2005 up 17.5% rising
39 Belize 0.56 kt 2009 down 61.5% volatile
40 Austria 0.4702 kt 2020 down 55.2% falling
41 Cyprus 0.4418 kt 2020 down 5.7% volatile
42 Hungary 0.2798 kt 2020 up 412.5% 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) from CH4 (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, 1,025 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed

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