Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5), per square kilometre by country

Burning - Crop residues — 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.

Countries reporting
154
Highest
0.001 kt per square kilometre
Bangladesh
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Median
0 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,200

What the numbers show

Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5), per square kilometre is currently reported for 154 countries. The highest value is 0.001 kt per square kilometre in Bangladesh; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The median across all reporting countries is 0 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0001 kt per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 62 countries rose and 76 fell. The largest increase was in Burundi (up 318.4%), and the largest decrease in Saint Kitts and Nevis (down 100.0%).

Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5), per: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Bangladesh 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.3% rising
2 Burundi 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 318.4% volatile
3 Malawi 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.9% rising
4 Benin 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 101.2% volatile
5 Philippines 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% rising
6 India 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.5% rising
7 Thailand 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.8% rising
8 Togo 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.8% volatile
9 El Salvador 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.1% rising
10 Nepal 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.0% rising
11 Serbia 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.9% falling
12 Rwanda 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.5% volatile
13 Romania 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.1% falling
14 Hungary 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.6% falling
15 Cambodia 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.5% rising
16 Guatemala 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 26.3% rising
17 Sri Lanka 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% rising
18 Mauritius 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 36.0% falling
19 Pakistan 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% rising
20 Ukraine 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 21.8% rising
21 Haiti 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 37.2% rising
22 Bulgaria 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.1% falling
23 Nigeria 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.7% volatile
24 Guinea 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 34.8% volatile
25 China 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.0% rising
26 Poland 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 52.1% rising
27 Sierra Leone 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 34.2% rising
28 Gambia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.0% volatile
29 Ghana 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 31.6% rising
30 Myanmar 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.6% rising
31 Uganda 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% volatile
32 Eswatini 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% rising
33 Slovakia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 18.2% rising
34 Lithuania 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 36.3% rising
35 France 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.6% rising
36 Comoros 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 60.0% falling
37 Croatia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.5% falling
38 Czechia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% rising
39 Denmark 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.5% volatile
40 Lesotho 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 39.0% falling
41 Burkina Faso 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 34.8% volatile
42 Germany 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% rising
43 Italy 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.8% falling
44 Dominican Republic 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 18.0% rising
45 Belgium 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.6% flat
46 Indonesia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 20.6% rising
47 Kenya 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.3% rising
48 Austria 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.9% rising
49 Argentina 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 66.1% rising
50 Honduras 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.1% rising
51 Brazil 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 29.0% rising
52 Mexico 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.4% flat
53 Mozambique 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 49.2% rising
54 Latvia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 42.7% volatile
55 Barbados 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 50.0% volatile
56 Paraguay 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.6% volatile
57 Azerbaijan 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 21.7% rising
58 Ethiopia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.1% rising
59 Guinea-Bissau 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
60 Albania 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.5% falling
61 Nicaragua 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 31.8% rising
62 Slovenia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% falling
63 Cameroon 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 37.8% volatile
64 Cuba 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 50.2% falling
65 Senegal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 126.5% volatile
66 Greece 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 33.9% falling
67 Japan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.1% falling
68 Belize 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 48.1% rising
69 South Africa 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.8% falling
70 Zimbabwe 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 27.2% rising
71 Morocco 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 27.6% rising
72 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 44.1% flat
73 Madagascar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 59.7% rising
74 North Macedonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.8% falling
75 Angola 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 71.0% volatile
76 Ecuador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 28.6% rising
77 Luxembourg 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
78 Belarus 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% volatile
79 Uruguay 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.7% falling
80 Spain 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 22.2% falling
81 Kazakhstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.0% rising
82 Zambia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 40.4% rising
83 Egypt 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 4.0% rising
84 Iraq 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 22.1% rising
85 Panama 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.1% falling
86 Lebanon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.7% falling
87 Mali 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 102.0% volatile
88 Estonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 42.4% rising
89 Israel 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.3% falling
90 Liberia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.5% rising
91 Afghanistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 21.8% falling
92 Georgia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 42.6% falling
93 Uzbekistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.4% flat
94 Switzerland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.8% flat
95 Fiji 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.7% falling
96 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.8% flat
97 Portugal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% volatile
98 Malaysia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.5% flat
99 Armenia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 32.7% falling
100 Costa Rica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 40.7% falling
101 Colombia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.7% flat
102 Palestine 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 20.1% falling
103 Tajikistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.8% rising
104 Tunisia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 50.8% falling
105 Australia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.1% rising
106 Jamaica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 66.7% falling
107 Canada 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% rising
108 Cyprus 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% volatile
109 Peru 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.5% rising
110 Turkmenistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 32.6% rising
111 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
112 Sweden 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 57.2% rising
113 Central African Republic 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 205.6% volatile
114 Guyana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 21.9% rising
115 Bhutan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 64.0% falling
116 Chad 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% volatile
117 Ireland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.9% falling
118 Algeria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% falling
119 Finland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% flat
120 South Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 51.1% falling
121 Eritrea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% falling
122 Chile 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 42.4% falling
123 Suriname 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.7% rising
124 Somalia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 17.8% falling
125 Bahamas 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
126 New Zealand 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.4% falling
127 Gabon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.5% volatile
128 Yemen 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 38.4% rising
129 Vanuatu 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
130 Montenegro 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
131 Botswana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 18.8% volatile
132 Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 37.4% rising
133 Mongolia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 22.0% falling
134 Kuwait 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
135 Congo 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
136 Namibia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 162.5% rising
137 Norway 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.3% volatile
138 Mauritania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 80.8% volatile
139 Solomon Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
140 Jordan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 50.0% volatile
141 Libya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 31.9% flat
142 Niger 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 38.1% rising
143 Saudi Arabia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.5% volatile
144 Papua New Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 33.3% volatile
145 United Arab Emirates 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 volatile
146 Oman 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
147 Antigua and Barbuda 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 volatile
147 Grenada 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 volatile
147 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kt per square kilometre 2006 down 100.0% rising
147 Malta 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
147 New Caledonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
147 Puerto Rico 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 volatile
147 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 volatile
147 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 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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Burning - Crop residues — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5), per square kilometre
Unit
kt per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
163 places, 9,200 data points, 1961–2023
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Burning - Crop residues — 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.