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Domestic Wastewater — Emissions (CH4) by country

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions from Pre- and post- agricultural production includes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and related activity data, generated from pre- and post-agriculture production stages of the agri-food systems. Data are computed following the Tier 1 methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on...

Countries reporting
219
Highest
2,294 kt
OECD
Lowest
0.0125 kt
Tuvalu
Median
9.17 kt
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
8,319

What the numbers show

Domestic Wastewater — Emissions (CH4) is currently reported for 219 countries. The highest value is 2,294 kt in OECD; the lowest is 0.0125 kt in Tuvalu.

The median across all reporting countries is 9.17 kt, and the mean is 67.83 kt.

Over the past decade 186 countries rose and 33 fell. The largest increase was in Qatar (up 46.6%), and the largest decrease in Saint Martin (French Part) (down 26.5%).

Domestic Wastewater — Emissions: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 OECD 2,294 kt 2023 up 5.9% rising
2 China 2,125 kt 2023 up 3.1% rising
3 China, mainland 2,087 kt 2023 up 3.2% rising
4 India 1,918 kt 2023 up 11.0% rising
4 Viet Nam 130.34 kt 2023 up 10.8% rising
5 Indonesia 365.22 kt 2023 up 9.9% rising
5 Democratic Republic of the Congo 126.05 kt 2023 up 39.6% rising
6 Pakistan 327 kt 2023 up 17.3% rising
6 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 120.52 kt 2023 up 12.7% rising
7 Brazil 276.36 kt 2023 up 6.4% rising
7 Türkiye 111.48 kt 2023 up 14.2% rising
8 Nigeria 273.05 kt 2023 up 25.9% rising
9 Bangladesh 229.04 kt 2023 up 9.5% rising
9 United Republic of Tanzania 79.19 kt 2023 up 36.4% rising
10 Mexico 171.44 kt 2023 up 9.6% rising
10 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 37.04 kt 2023 down 5.4% rising
11 Russian Federation 165.68 kt 2023 up 0.6% flat
11 Syrian Arab Republic 30.14 kt 2023 up 8.9% rising
12 Ethiopia 152.98 kt 2023 up 30.7% rising
12 Melanesia 16.25 kt 2023 up 23.0% rising
13 Philippines 149.23 kt 2023 up 12.6% rising
13 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 16.03 kt 2023 up 14.6% rising
14 Germany 134.19 kt 2023 up 4.3% flat
14 Lao People's Democratic Republic 9.96 kt 2023 up 15.9% rising
15 Egypt 133.63 kt 2023 up 20.1% rising
15 Republic of Moldova 4.93 kt 2023 down 10.0% falling
16 Japan 129.49 kt 2023 down 2.6% flat
16 Timor-Leste 1.8 kt 2023 up 19.5% rising
17 France 107.29 kt 2023 up 3.2% rising
17 Polynesia 0.8427 kt 2023 up 2.3% rising
18 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 105.94 kt 2023 up 6.7% rising
18 Micronesia 0.671 kt 2023 up 1.1% rising
19 Italy 100.12 kt 2023 down 1.9% rising
19 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.1439 kt 2023 up 4.2% flat
20 Thailand 93.13 kt 2023 up 2.7% rising
21 Spain 80.62 kt 2023 up 2.2% rising
22 South Africa 75.99 kt 2023 up 15.6% rising
23 Myanmar 70.31 kt 2023 up 7.7% rising
24 Colombia 68.48 kt 2023 up 13.4% rising
25 Canada 68.46 kt 2023 up 11.3% rising
26 Kenya 65.78 kt 2023 up 23.0% rising
27 Republic of Korea 63.41 kt 2023 up 3.4% rising
28 Poland 62.34 kt 2023 up 1.3% flat
29 Ukraine 60.68 kt 2023 down 18.2% falling
29 Caribbean 51.38 kt 2023 up 6.6% rising
30 Iraq 59.96 kt 2023 up 27.8% rising
30 Côte d'Ivoire 37.34 kt 2023 up 30.2% rising
31 Argentina 59.61 kt 2023 up 6.9% rising
31 Cabo Verde 0.6259 kt 2023 up 2.0% rising
32 Sudan 58.39 kt 2023 up 32.4% rising
33 Uganda 57.84 kt 2023 up 37.7% rising
34 Algeria 53.86 kt 2023 up 20.2% rising
35 Afghanistan 52.96 kt 2023 up 31.1% rising
36 Australia and New Zealand 51.99 kt 2023 up 14.2% rising
37 Yemen 50.32 kt 2023 up 34.4% rising
38 Malaysia 45.62 kt 2023 up 16.4% rising
39 Uzbekistan 45.54 kt 2023 up 19.9% rising
40 Peru 44.3 kt 2023 up 13.5% rising
41 Morocco 44 kt 2023 up 11.6% rising
42 Angola 43.79 kt 2023 up 40.5% rising
43 Australia 43.49 kt 2023 up 13.8% rising
44 Saudi Arabia 42.49 kt 2023 up 18.7% rising
45 Ghana 40.48 kt 2023 up 23.4% rising
46 Mozambique 39.98 kt 2023 up 34.3% rising
47 Nepal 39.5 kt 2023 up 7.6% rising
48 Madagascar 37.08 kt 2023 up 29.4% rising
49 Cameroon 33.81 kt 2023 up 32.6% rising
50 Niger 31.34 kt 2023 up 41.3% rising
51 Romania 30.75 kt 2023 down 4.7% falling
52 Sri Lanka 30.56 kt 2023 up 7.6% rising
53 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 28.8 kt 2023 up 6.6% rising
54 China, Taiwan Province of 28.57 kt 2023 down 0.4% rising
55 Mali 28.48 kt 2023 up 36.1% rising
56 Burkina Faso 27.59 kt 2023 up 30.1% rising
57 Kazakhstan 25.97 kt 2023 up 15.8% rising
58 Chile 25.73 kt 2023 up 11.1% rising
59 Malawi 25.09 kt 2023 up 30.6% rising
60 Zambia 24.64 kt 2023 up 34.6% rising
61 Guatemala 23.95 kt 2023 up 17.8% rising
62 Ecuador 23.53 kt 2023 up 13.7% rising
63 Cambodia 22.63 kt 2023 up 14.9% rising
64 Chad 22.54 kt 2023 up 41.1% rising
65 Somalia 21.82 kt 2023 up 42.7% rising
66 Senegal 21.66 kt 2023 up 31.8% rising
67 Zimbabwe 19.43 kt 2023 up 16.6% rising
68 Belgium 18.64 kt 2023 up 5.0% rising
69 Portugal 17.55 kt 2023 down 0.3% flat
70 Czechia 17.38 kt 2023 up 2.8% flat
71 Guinea 17.26 kt 2023 up 28.7% rising
72 Greece 17.24 kt 2023 down 6.6% flat
73 Benin 16.91 kt 2023 up 31.8% rising
74 Rwanda 16.59 kt 2023 up 25.8% rising
75 Sweden 16.27 kt 2023 up 9.9% rising
76 Burundi 16.27 kt 2023 up 31.1% rising
77 Hungary 15.58 kt 2023 down 2.1% falling
78 Haiti 14.87 kt 2023 up 13.8% rising
79 Belarus 14.66 kt 2023 down 3.7% falling
80 Jordan 14.61 kt 2023 up 43.1% rising
81 Austria 14.53 kt 2023 up 7.7% rising
82 Dominican Republic 14.47 kt 2023 up 11.2% rising
83 Tunisia 14.23 kt 2023 up 9.5% rising
84 Switzerland 14.12 kt 2023 up 9.6% rising
85 Cuba 14.08 kt 2023 down 2.5% flat
86 Honduras 13.93 kt 2023 up 19.7% rising
87 South Sudan 13.65 kt 2023 up 2.8% flat
88 United Arab Emirates 13.59 kt 2023 up 35.9% rising
89 Tajikistan 13.27 kt 2023 up 26.4% rising
90 Papua New Guinea 13.27 kt 2023 up 25.1% rising
91 Azerbaijan 13.18 kt 2023 up 8.6% rising
92 Israel 11.82 kt 2023 up 19.4% rising
93 Serbia 11.4 kt 2023 down 6.9% falling
94 Togo 11.15 kt 2023 up 27.7% rising
95 Bulgaria 10.93 kt 2023 down 6.5% falling
96 Sierra Leone 10.14 kt 2023 up 26.0% rising
97 Turkmenistan 9.41 kt 2023 up 24.0% rising
98 Denmark 9.17 kt 2023 up 5.9% rising
99 China, Hong Kong SAR 9.12 kt 2023 up 2.5% rising
100 Kyrgyzstan 9.04 kt 2023 up 22.0% rising
101 Nicaragua 9.02 kt 2023 up 14.0% rising
102 Paraguay 8.96 kt 2023 up 14.4% rising
103 Slovakia 8.87 kt 2023 up 2.0% flat
104 Finland 8.64 kt 2023 up 3.0% rising
105 Libya 8.52 kt 2023 up 15.9% rising
106 Norway 8.51 kt 2023 up 8.6% rising
107 New Zealand 8.5 kt 2023 up 16.1% rising
108 El Salvador 8.34 kt 2023 up 2.8% rising
109 Ireland 8.02 kt 2023 up 12.4% rising
110 Lebanon 7.68 kt 2023 up 0.5% rising
111 Singapore 7.52 kt 2023 up 7.5% rising
112 Congo 7.37 kt 2023 up 27.3% rising
113 Palestine 6.91 kt 2023 up 25.4% rising
114 Costa Rica 6.75 kt 2023 up 8.3% rising
115 Liberia 6.58 kt 2023 up 22.9% rising
116 Croatia 6.56 kt 2023 down 8.2% falling
117 Oman 6.45 kt 2023 up 31.7% rising
118 Kuwait 6.44 kt 2023 up 37.9% rising
119 Central African Republic 6.14 kt 2023 up 11.0% rising
120 Mauritania 6.02 kt 2023 up 34.5% rising
121 Panama 5.89 kt 2023 up 16.6% rising
122 Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.36 kt 2023 down 11.8% falling
123 Georgia 4.86 kt 2023 down 0.0% falling
124 Albania 4.73 kt 2023 down 3.3% falling
125 Uruguay 4.43 kt 2023 up 1.3% rising
126 Lithuania 4.4 kt 2023 down 3.5% falling
127 Mongolia 4.21 kt 2023 up 20.3% rising
128 Eritrea 4.13 kt 2023 up 12.9% rising
129 Qatar 3.81 kt 2023 up 46.6% volatile
130 Armenia 3.76 kt 2023 up 0.7% falling
131 Jamaica 3.63 kt 2023 up 2.0% rising
132 Slovenia 3.56 kt 2023 up 3.0% rising
133 Namibia 3.56 kt 2023 up 31.5% rising
134 Gambia 3.23 kt 2023 up 28.2% rising
135 North Macedonia 3.08 kt 2023 down 9.0% falling
136 Botswana 2.98 kt 2023 up 15.9% rising
137 Gabon 2.96 kt 2023 up 29.9% rising
138 Latvia 2.9 kt 2023 down 6.5% falling
139 Lesotho 2.78 kt 2023 up 12.4% rising
140 Guinea-Bissau 2.58 kt 2023 up 27.0% rising
141 Equatorial Guinea 2.2 kt 2023 up 37.2% rising
142 Estonia 2.2 kt 2023 up 3.7% falling
143 Bahrain 2.01 kt 2023 up 24.9% rising
144 Trinidad and Tobago 1.92 kt 2023 up 6.4% rising
145 Cyprus 1.72 kt 2023 up 13.6% rising
146 Mauritius 1.51 kt 2023 down 1.3% rising
147 Eswatini 1.48 kt 2023 up 8.9% rising
148 Djibouti 1.37 kt 2023 up 17.1% rising
149 Fiji 1.18 kt 2023 up 0.9% rising
150 Guyana 1.08 kt 2023 up 10.2% rising
151 Luxembourg 1.06 kt 2023 up 22.4% rising
152 Bhutan 1.05 kt 2023 up 8.4% rising
153 Solomon Islands 1.02 kt 2023 up 34.5% rising
154 Comoros 1.01 kt 2023 up 22.1% rising
155 Montenegro 0.9772 kt 2023 up 0.1% flat
156 Malta 0.8968 kt 2023 up 24.4% rising
157 China, Macao SAR 0.8747 kt 2023 up 19.2% rising
158 Suriname 0.8232 kt 2023 up 10.5% rising
159 Maldives 0.6997 kt 2023 up 31.5% rising
160 Iceland 0.5978 kt 2023 up 19.7% rising
161 Brunei Darussalam 0.5961 kt 2023 up 11.6% rising
162 Belize 0.5432 kt 2023 up 20.3% rising
163 Bahamas 0.5103 kt 2023 up 5.4% rising
164 Vanuatu 0.4093 kt 2023 up 25.9% rising
165 New Caledonia 0.3703 kt 2023 up 4.7% rising
166 Barbados 0.3607 kt 2023 up 1.7% rising
167 French Polynesia 0.3591 kt 2023 up 2.3% rising
168 Samoa 0.2768 kt 2023 up 9.3% rising
169 Sao Tome and Principe 0.2751 kt 2023 up 19.5% rising
170 Curaçao 0.2369 kt 2023 up 13.7% rising
171 Saint Lucia 0.229 kt 2023 up 3.4% rising
172 Guam 0.2127 kt 2023 up 0.3% rising
173 Kiribati 0.1693 kt 2023 up 16.4% rising
174 Seychelles 0.1521 kt 2023 up 25.3% rising
175 Grenada 0.1496 kt 2023 up 3.2% rising
176 Aruba 0.1379 kt 2023 up 5.2% rising
177 Andorra 0.1361 kt 2023 up 7.5% rising
178 Tonga 0.1336 kt 2023 down 2.3% rising
179 Isle of Man 0.1298 kt 2023 up 0.0% rising
180 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.1294 kt 2023 down 6.3% falling
181 Antigua and Barbuda 0.1192 kt 2023 up 6.0% rising
182 United States Virgin Islands 0.1095 kt 2023 down 16.9% falling
183 Cayman Islands 0.0933 kt 2023 up 24.5% rising
184 Greenland 0.0899 kt 2023 down 1.0% flat
185 Dominica 0.085 kt 2023 down 4.6% flat
186 Faroe Islands 0.0844 kt 2023 up 13.3% rising
187 Gibraltar 0.0647 kt 2023 up 18.7% rising
188 Liechtenstein 0.063 kt 2023 up 7.3% rising
189 Monaco 0.062 kt 2023 up 9.9% rising
190 American Samoa 0.0607 kt 2023 down 12.0% flat
191 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0597 kt 2023 down 0.7% rising
192 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.059 kt 2023 up 37.3% rising
193 Northern Mariana Islands 0.0577 kt 2023 down 14.4% falling
194 San Marino 0.0568 kt 2023 up 0.3% rising
195 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.0546 kt 2023 up 19.2% rising
196 British Virgin Islands 0.0498 kt 2023 up 23.0% rising
197 Marshall Islands 0.0496 kt 2023 down 23.4% falling
198 Saint Martin (French Part) 0.0351 kt 2023 down 26.5% falling
199 Palau 0.0226 kt 2023 up 0.4% flat
200 Nauru 0.0152 kt 2023 up 12.9% rising
201 Tuvalu 0.0125 kt 2023 down 10.8% rising

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Domestic Wastewater — Emissions (CH4)
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
251 places, 8,319 data points, 1990–2023
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The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions from Pre- and post- agricultural production includes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and related activity data, generated from pre- and post-agriculture production stages of the agri-food 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). The domain includes methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) and CO2 equivalent (CO2eq) emissions from the above activities as well as the aggregate fluorinated gases (F-gases) emissions. Estimates are available by country, with global coverage and are updated annually.The FAOSTAT domain disseminates information estimates of CH4, N2O, CO2 emissions, F-gases, their aggregates in CO2eq in units of kilotonnes (kt, or 10^6 kg), and the underlying activity data. CO2eq emissions are computed by using the IPCC Fifth Assessment report global warming potentials, AR5 (IPCC, 2014). Data are available for most countries and territories, for standard FAOSTAT regional aggregations, and for Annex I and non-Annex I country groups.