Drained organic soils (N2O) — Emissions (CO2eq) (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
33
Highest
14,266 kt
Russian Federation
Lowest
0.6017 kt
Liechtenstein
Median
124.05 kt
Years covered
31
1990–2020
Data points
1,139

What the numbers show

Drained organic soils (N2O) — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 33 countries. The highest value is 14,266 kt in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0.6017 kt in Liechtenstein.

The median across all reporting countries is 124.05 kt, and the mean is 1,058 kt.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 23,709.

Over the past decade 6 countries rose and 17 fell. The largest increase was in Finland (up 7.4%), and the largest decrease in Denmark (down 10.0%).

Drained organic soils (N2O) — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Russian Federation 14,266 kt 2020 down 0.8% falling
2 Belarus 3,344 kt 2020 down 4.9% falling
3 Germany 3,294 kt 2020 down 1.7% flat
4 Poland 3,070 kt 2020 down 0.5% flat
5 Colombia 1,770 kt 2014 down 0.6% flat
6 Ukraine 1,571 kt 2020 down 3.4% flat
7 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1,424 kt 2020 down 1.4% falling
8 Finland 1,381 kt 2020 up 7.4% rising
9 Sweden 731.1 kt 2020 down 5.7% falling
10 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 615.73 kt 2020 down 4.5% falling
11 Ireland 607.02 kt 2020 down 6.0% falling
12 New Zealand 593.67 kt 2020 up 0.1% flat
13 Denmark 534.04 kt 2020 down 10.0% falling
14 Lithuania 440.38 kt 2020 up 5.0% falling
15 Norway 344.41 kt 2020 up 2.7% rising
16 Latvia 243.58 kt 2020 down 4.5% falling
17 Estonia 124.05 kt 2020 down 0.6% flat
18 Italy 77.27 kt 2020 down 0.2% flat
19 Iceland 74.12 kt 2020 up 1.9% rising
20 Japan 73.28 kt 2020 down 2.4% flat
21 Türkiye 72.76 kt 2020 unchanged flat
22 Switzerland 57.47 kt 2020 down 1.2% flat
23 Canada 53.81 kt 2020 unchanged flat
24 Austria 44.23 kt 2020 unchanged flat
25 Australia 23.32 kt 2020 unchanged flat
26 Greece 22.2 kt 2020 unchanged flat
27 Romania 21.28 kt 2020 unchanged flat
28 France 18.33 kt 2020 unchanged flat
29 Bulgaria 10.66 kt 2020 unchanged flat
30 Croatia 8.95 kt 2020 unchanged flat
31 Belgium 8.4 kt 2020 unchanged flat
32 Slovenia 7.85 kt 2020 up 3.5% rising
33 Liechtenstein 0.6017 kt 2020 down 0.8% falling

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
Drained organic soils (N2O) — 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
38 places, 1,139 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