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Cereals excluding rice — Emissions intensity by country

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions intensities contains analytical data on the intensity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by agricultural commodity. This indicator is defined as greenhouse gas emissions per kg of product. Data are available for a set of agricultural commodities (e.g. rice and other cereals, meat,...

Countries reporting
189
Highest
1,070 kg CO2eq/kg
Suriname
Lowest
0.0435 kg CO2eq/kg
Dominica
Median
0.1861 kg CO2eq/kg
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
12,381

What the numbers show

Cereals excluding rice — Emissions intensity is currently reported for 189 countries. The highest value is 1,070 kg CO2eq/kg in Suriname; the lowest is 0.0435 kg CO2eq/kg in Dominica.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1861 kg CO2eq/kg, and the mean is 6.39 kg CO2eq/kg.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 24,586.

Over the past decade 87 countries rose and 100 fell. The largest increase was in Guadeloupe (up 1,123.0%), and the largest decrease in United Arab Emirates (down 97.6%).

Cereals excluding rice — Emissions intensity: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Suriname 1,070 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 246.2% volatile
2 Malaysia 16.92 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 — volatile
3 French Guiana 13.83 kg CO2eq/kg 2006 down 82.1% volatile
4 Mauritius 12.47 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 72.3% volatile
5 Djibouti 11.41 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 69.3% volatile
6 Guyana 7.79 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 17.4% volatile
7 Fiji 7.22 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 48.2% volatile
8 Saint Lucia 5.93 kg CO2eq/kg 1979 down 2.3% volatile
9 Cabo Verde 5.72 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 709.1% volatile
10 Guadeloupe 5.25 kg CO2eq/kg 1977 up 1,123.0% volatile
11 Papua New Guinea 4.47 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 40.6% volatile
12 Iceland 2.56 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 53.1% falling
13 Qatar 2.27 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 16.4% volatile
14 Maldives 1.71 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 10.2% volatile
15 United Arab Emirates 1.68 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 97.6% volatile
16 Botswana 1.13 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 80.5% volatile
17 Sri Lanka 0.8249 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 11.5% volatile
18 Puerto Rico 0.7045 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 63.7% volatile
19 Panama 0.6911 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 17.9% falling
20 Turkmenistan 0.6894 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 32.2% rising
21 Montenegro 0.6661 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 3.0% falling
22 New Caledonia 0.6448 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 53.2% volatile
23 Cyprus 0.644 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 28.4% volatile
24 Namibia 0.6123 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 41.8% volatile
25 Sao Tome and Principe 0.6114 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 78.1% volatile
26 Zimbabwe 0.5754 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 40.8% rising
27 Barbados 0.4986 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 21.8% volatile
28 Saudi Arabia 0.4948 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 16.2% volatile
29 Gabon 0.4887 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 136.8% volatile
30 Tunisia 0.4709 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 105.4% rising
31 Nicaragua 0.4647 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 77.0% rising
32 Costa Rica 0.4539 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 63.4% volatile
33 China, Taiwan Province of 0.4511 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 53.6% volatile
34 Eswatini 0.4459 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 52.3% falling
35 Zambia 0.4392 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 25.1% rising
36 Palestine 0.4229 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 6.7% volatile
37 Georgia 0.4185 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 79.6% rising
38 Honduras 0.4051 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 12.4% rising
39 Portugal 0.3961 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 5.0% rising
40 Republic of Korea 0.3773 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 23.9% volatile
41 Guatemala 0.3693 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 8.9% rising
42 Jamaica 0.3664 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 3.0% rising
43 Belize 0.366 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 18.8% volatile
44 Malawi 0.34 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 139.6% rising
45 Chile 0.3368 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 35.8% rising
46 Pakistan 0.3195 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 8.6% rising
47 Mongolia 0.319 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 41.3% rising
48 Belarus 0.3189 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 4.1% rising
49 Peru 0.3142 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 8.0% rising
50 Libya 0.3079 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 24.9% rising
51 Norway 0.3029 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 28.0% falling
52 Spain 0.2902 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 52.0% falling
53 Gambia 0.2873 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 231.8% rising
54 Congo 0.2786 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 41.3% volatile
55 Uzbekistan 0.2754 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 25.0% volatile
56 Egypt 0.2718 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 14.6% flat
57 Mozambique 0.2714 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 1.7% rising
58 Jordan 0.2623 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 41.6% rising
59 Thailand 0.2584 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 36.6% rising
60 Canada 0.2538 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 28.6% rising
61 Armenia 0.2526 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 40.4% volatile
62 USSR 0.2494 kg CO2eq/kg 1991 down 13.2% rising
63 Colombia 0.2486 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 4.1% rising
64 Uruguay 0.2463 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 13.5% rising
65 Oman 0.2427 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 68.2% volatile
66 Israel 0.2405 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 3.1% rising
67 India 0.2401 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 2.7% rising
68 Côte d'Ivoire 0.2333 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 21.4% falling
69 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.2278 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 17.4% flat
70 Bulgaria 0.2275 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 2.8% falling
71 Vanuatu 0.2274 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 2.2% falling
72 Türkiye 0.2263 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 4.9% rising
73 Lesotho 0.2261 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 30.1% rising
74 Luxembourg 0.2214 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 11.5% rising
75 Dominican Republic 0.2179 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 0.5% rising
76 Albania 0.2147 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 14.3% flat
77 Switzerland 0.2118 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 9.7% falling
78 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.2104 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 8.1% rising
79 Belgium-Luxembourg 0.2082 kg CO2eq/kg 1999 down 9.8% flat
80 Australia 0.2079 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 2.8% rising
81 Sudan 0.2066 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 60.3% rising
82 Australia and New Zealand 0.2061 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 7.9% rising
83 Benin 0.2055 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 57.7% falling
84 Sweden 0.2045 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 22.3% falling
85 Grenada 0.2002 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 3.5% rising
86 Italy 0.1981 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 9.4% falling
87 Malta 0.1964 kg CO2eq/kg 2017 down 2.5% falling
88 Finland 0.195 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 24.0% falling
89 Philippines 0.1944 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 2.4% falling
90 El Salvador 0.1921 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 26.8% falling
91 Viet Nam 0.1918 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 14.7% falling
92 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.1909 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 3.1% volatile
93 Somalia 0.1905 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 70.4% falling
94 New Zealand 0.1902 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 10.3% rising
95 Morocco 0.1861 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 31.8% rising
96 Greece 0.185 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 20.4% falling
97 Haiti 0.184 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 17.7% rising
98 Poland 0.1838 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 17.4% flat
99 Mauritania 0.1832 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 4.7% rising
100 Rwanda 0.1819 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 57.1% rising
101 Iraq 0.1808 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 15.5% volatile
102 Slovenia 0.1787 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 30.4% falling
103 Kenya 0.1737 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 0.3% rising
104 Czechia 0.1735 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 23.7% rising
105 Guinea-Bissau 0.1727 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 16.9% rising
106 North Macedonia 0.172 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 6.6% flat
107 Denmark 0.1707 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 23.9% falling
108 Tajikistan 0.1704 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 105.5% volatile
109 China 0.1702 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 27.4% rising
110 China, mainland 0.17 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 27.4% rising
111 Burundi 0.1676 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 12.2% rising
112 Estonia 0.1645 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 3.6% falling
113 Mexico 0.164 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 13.7% falling
114 Caribbean 0.1639 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 16.7% falling
115 United Republic of Tanzania 0.1627 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 4.5% falling
116 Slovakia 0.16 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 18.2% rising
117 Czechoslovakia 0.1579 kg CO2eq/kg 1992 down 40.9% rising
118 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.1573 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 3.0% rising
119 Croatia 0.1569 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 5.0% falling
119 Indonesia 0.1569 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 6.3% falling
119 Togo 0.1569 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 2.5% flat
122 Angola 0.1566 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 21.8% falling
123 Sudan (former) 0.1562 kg CO2eq/kg 2011 up 13.3% flat
124 Brazil 0.1559 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 3.8% rising
125 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.1552 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 13.2% falling
126 Republic of Moldova 0.1548 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 25.0% rising
127 Yemen 0.153 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 20.2% rising
128 Serbia and Montenegro 0.1529 kg CO2eq/kg 2005 up 35.9% rising
129 Ecuador 0.1521 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 47.2% rising
130 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0.1471 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 5.4% falling
131 Romania 0.1429 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 16.6% falling
132 Japan 0.1417 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 19.6% falling
133 Germany 0.141 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 20.2% falling
134 Belgium 0.139 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 17.4% rising
135 Lebanon 0.1386 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 5.1% falling
136 Austria 0.1381 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 16.1% falling
137 Argentina 0.1371 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 18.9% rising
138 Trinidad and Tobago 0.1366 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 60.5% volatile
139 Syrian Arab Republic 0.133 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 19.1% falling
140 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.1327 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 54.8% volatile
140 Eritrea 0.1327 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 5.8% volatile
142 Ethiopia 0.1306 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 30.3% falling
143 Sierra Leone 0.1286 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 5.8% falling
144 Ireland 0.128 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 4.7% rising
145 Serbia 0.1279 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 29.1% falling
146 Ethiopia PDR 0.1265 kg CO2eq/kg 1992 up 25.4% flat
147 Russian Federation 0.126 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 4.7% falling
148 Chad 0.1257 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 6.1% rising
149 Cameroon 0.1248 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 1.1% falling
150 Burkina Faso 0.1246 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 10.8% falling
151 Comoros 0.124 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 25.3% falling
152 Guinea 0.1224 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 4.7% flat
153 Bangladesh 0.122 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 26.4% falling
154 Hungary 0.1201 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 20.3% falling
155 Ghana 0.1198 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 18.6% falling
156 Azerbaijan 0.1195 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 23.6% falling
157 Kazakhstan 0.117 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 6.5% falling
158 Ukraine 0.1156 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 3.0% falling
159 Paraguay 0.1139 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 0.3% falling
160 Lithuania 0.1126 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 20.4% flat
161 Yugoslav SFR 0.1115 kg CO2eq/kg 1991 down 33.3% rising
162 Cuba 0.1106 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 unchanged volatile
163 Kuwait 0.1081 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 7.0% volatile
164 Bhutan 0.1058 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 21.9% falling
165 Madagascar 0.1019 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 5.3% falling
166 Nigeria 0.1014 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 32.7% rising
167 Mali 0.0998 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 8.6% rising
168 Niger 0.0992 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 6.8% rising
169 South Sudan 0.0981 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 22.6% falling
170 Uganda 0.0978 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 2.7% rising
171 France 0.0975 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 6.9% falling
172 Nepal 0.0968 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 13.6% flat
173 Afghanistan 0.0965 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 1.6% falling
174 Algeria 0.0954 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 14.1% falling
175 Timor-Leste 0.0938 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 7.2% falling
176 Kyrgyzstan 0.0912 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 8.5% falling
177 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 0.0855 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 9.4% falling
178 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 0.0843 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 52.9% falling
179 Cambodia 0.0812 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 0.9% falling
180 Latvia 0.0741 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 1.1% falling
181 Myanmar 0.0729 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 8.5% falling
181 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.0729 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 up 22.3% falling
183 Senegal 0.0721 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 48.9% rising
184 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0689 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 9.2% volatile
185 Melanesia 0.0623 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 7.3% falling
186 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0605 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 44.4% volatile
187 Bahamas 0.0521 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 66.7% falling
188 Micronesia 0.0519 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 3.2% falling
189 Dominica 0.0435 kg CO2eq/kg 2023 down 83.3% 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
Cereals excluding rice — Emissions intensity
Unit
kg CO2eq/kg
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
222 places, 12,381 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions intensities contains analytical data on the intensity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by agricultural commodity. This indicator is defined as greenhouse gas emissions per kg of product. Data are available for a set of agricultural commodities (e.g. rice and other cereals, meat, milk, eggs), by country, with global coverage.