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Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5), per capita by country

Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
170
Highest
0.0078 kt per person
Mongolia
Lowest
0 kt per person
Singapore
Median
0.0005 kt per person
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,815

What the numbers show

Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5), per capita is currently reported for 170 countries. The highest value is 0.0078 kt per person in Mongolia; the lowest is 0 kt per person in Singapore.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0005 kt per person, and the mean is 0.0008 kt per person.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2,916.

Over the past decade 44 countries rose and 126 fell. The largest increase was in Malawi (up 69.4%), and the largest decrease in Botswana (down 56.2%).

Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq), per capita: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Mongolia 0.0078 kt per person 2023 up 31.7% falling
2 Uruguay 0.0077 kt per person 2023 down 0.3% falling
3 New Zealand 0.0073 kt per person 2023 down 23.3% falling
4 Chad 0.0048 kt per person 2023 up 29.4% rising
5 Paraguay 0.0041 kt per person 2023 down 11.7% flat
6 Australia 0.0038 kt per person 2023 down 13.2% falling
7 Ireland 0.0037 kt per person 2023 down 15.5% falling
8 South Sudan 0.0027 kt per person 2023 up 12.7% rising
9 Argentina 0.0026 kt per person 2023 down 2.2% falling
10 Brazil 0.0025 kt per person 2023 up 5.2% rising
11 Namibia 0.002 kt per person 2023 down 1.0% falling
12 Mauritania 0.0019 kt per person 2023 down 17.4% falling
13 Nicaragua 0.0018 kt per person 2023 up 5.6% falling
14 Central African Republic 0.0016 kt per person 2023 up 0.5% rising
15 Mali 0.0015 kt per person 2023 up 11.4% falling
16 Sudan 0.0014 kt per person 2023 down 23.0% falling
17 Eritrea 0.0014 kt per person 2023 down 7.5% falling
18 Turkmenistan 0.0014 kt per person 2023 down 7.9% rising
19 Belarus 0.0014 kt per person 2023 down 1.4% falling
20 Niger 0.0014 kt per person 2023 up 3.6% falling
21 Denmark 0.0013 kt per person 2023 down 13.3% falling
22 Somalia 0.0013 kt per person 2023 down 30.6% falling
23 Colombia 0.0013 kt per person 2023 up 11.9% falling
24 Iceland 0.0011 kt per person 2023 down 19.9% falling
25 Kazakhstan 0.001 kt per person 2023 up 1.4% falling
26 Uzbekistan 0.001 kt per person 2023 up 16.9% rising
27 Costa Rica 0.001 kt per person 2023 up 43.2% falling
28 Ethiopia 0.001 kt per person 2023 up 1.2% rising
29 Guinea 0.001 kt per person 2023 up 20.8% rising
30 Kenya 0.0009 kt per person 2023 up 2.4% falling
31 Burkina Faso 0.0009 kt per person 2023 down 16.0% rising
32 Vanuatu 0.0009 kt per person 2023 down 55.3% falling
33 Luxembourg 0.0008 kt per person 2023 down 20.5% falling
34 Canada 0.0008 kt per person 2023 down 15.9% falling
35 Kyrgyzstan 0.0008 kt per person 2023 down 0.2% rising
36 Tonga 0.0008 kt per person 2023 up 6.0% rising
37 Pakistan 0.0008 kt per person 2023 up 17.8% flat
38 Cuba 0.0008 kt per person 2023 down 12.0% falling
39 Albania 0.0008 kt per person 2023 down 26.8% flat
40 France 0.0008 kt per person 2023 down 15.8% falling
41 Panama 0.0008 kt per person 2023 down 22.8% falling
42 Tuvalu 0.0008 kt per person 2023 up 18.1% rising
43 New Caledonia 0.0008 kt per person 2023 down 15.6% falling
44 Lithuania 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 19.1% falling
45 Eswatini 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 20.7% falling
46 Mexico 0.0007 kt per person 2023 up 2.0% falling
47 Dominican Republic 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 3.0% falling
48 Samoa 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 34.4% rising
49 Belgium 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 12.0% falling
50 Austria 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 14.2% falling
51 Peru 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 8.3% falling
52 Tajikistan 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 4.3% rising
53 Guinea-Bissau 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 14.5% flat
54 Botswana 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 56.2% falling
55 Latvia 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 6.5% falling
56 Spain 0.0007 kt per person 2023 up 1.5% flat
57 Djibouti 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 12.3% falling
58 Slovenia 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 8.7% falling
59 Norway 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 9.7% falling
60 Zimbabwe 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 14.4% falling
61 Honduras 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 12.0% falling
62 Estonia 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 12.6% falling
63 Switzerland 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 13.4% falling
64 Faroe Islands 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 3.1% falling
65 Azerbaijan 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 16.2% rising
66 Uganda 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 11.5% falling
67 Serbia 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 13.4% falling
68 Fiji 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 44.7% falling
69 Dominica 0.0006 kt per person 2023 up 5.3% rising
70 Montenegro 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 17.4% falling
71 Poland 0.0006 kt per person 2023 up 7.9% falling
72 Belize 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 23.2% falling
73 Romania 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 4.3% falling
74 Senegal 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 11.2% falling
75 Portugal 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 2.0% falling
76 Guatemala 0.0005 kt per person 2023 up 1.7% falling
77 Bhutan 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 14.9% falling
78 Myanmar 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 38.1% rising
79 Nepal 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 31.3% falling
80 Lesotho 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 25.0% falling
81 Ecuador 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 35.1% falling
82 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 19.2% rising
83 Greece 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 14.3% falling
84 Finland 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 17.2% falling
85 Germany 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 17.6% falling
86 Guyana 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 8.0% falling
87 Georgia 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 23.6% rising
88 North Macedonia 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 27.1% falling
89 Croatia 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 12.2% falling
90 Italy 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 2.5% falling
91 Chile 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 17.1% falling
92 Libya 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 9.2% falling
93 Sweden 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 22.3% falling
94 Cambodia 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 19.8% falling
95 Malawi 0.0004 kt per person 2023 up 69.4% rising
96 Cameroon 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 20.6% falling
97 Madagascar 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 38.2% falling
98 Haiti 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 7.9% falling
99 Benin 0.0004 kt per person 2023 up 5.2% flat
100 Oman 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 8.3% rising
101 Zambia 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 10.5% falling
102 South Africa 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 23.5% falling
103 Czechia 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 5.0% falling
104 India 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 3.0% falling
105 Hungary 0.0004 kt per person 2023 up 3.3% falling
106 Afghanistan 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 24.3% falling
107 Togo 0.0004 kt per person 2023 up 18.6% rising
108 Armenia 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 17.8% rising
109 Bulgaria 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 0.4% falling
110 Morocco 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 9.4% falling
111 Tunisia 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 11.8% falling
112 Saudi Arabia 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 65.6% falling
113 El Salvador 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 12.6% falling
114 Nigeria 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 6.5% rising
115 Algeria 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 6.2% falling
116 China 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 6.6% rising
117 Ukraine 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 33.5% volatile
118 Bangladesh 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 2.0% falling
119 Angola 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 20.0% falling
120 Slovak Republic 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 17.8% falling
121 Qatar 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 42.6% falling
122 Sierra Leone 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 15.6% rising
123 Burundi 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 16.7% falling
124 Yemen 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 20.1% falling
125 Indonesia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 30.8% flat
126 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 20.8% falling
127 Ghana 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 19.9% falling
128 Grenada 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 20.2% falling
129 Gambia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 37.4% falling
130 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 10.2% falling
131 United Arab Emirates 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 7.4% volatile
132 Barbados 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 7.3% falling
133 Jamaica 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 5.5% falling
134 Thailand 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 12.2% falling
135 Rwanda 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 21.3% falling
136 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 7.3% falling
137 Saint Lucia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 3.9% falling
138 Cyprus 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 40.9% falling
139 Puerto Rico 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 4.5% falling
140 Suriname 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 27.5% falling
141 French Polynesia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 3.2% falling
142 Iraq 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 22.5% volatile
143 Mozambique 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 10.3% falling
144 Israel 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 6.2% falling
145 Malta 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 36.1% flat
146 Comoros 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 16.9% falling
147 Philippines 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 13.3% falling
148 Nauru 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 10.8% rising
149 Papua New Guinea 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 15.8% falling
150 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 19.7% falling
151 Lebanon 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 5.0% falling
152 Kuwait 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 0.2% rising
153 Sri Lanka 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 10.2% falling
154 Jordan 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 16.6% volatile
155 Malaysia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 19.5% falling
156 Egypt 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 52.7% falling
157 Congo 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 22.5% rising
158 Japan 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 0.5% falling
159 Solomon Islands 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 23.7% falling
160 Gabon 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 19.2% rising
161 Kiribati 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 3.5% falling
162 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 2.4% falling
163 Mauritius 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 6.1% falling
164 State of Palestine 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 9.5% falling
165 Liberia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 15.8% falling
166 Bahamas 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 0.4% falling
167 Seychelles 0 kt per person 2023 up 9.8% falling
168 Bahrain 0 kt per person 2023 down 7.3% falling
169 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 down 23.8% falling
170 Singapore 0 kt per person 2023 down 17.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

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

  • World 0.0005 kt per person

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Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) ÷ Population, total

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Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.

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Indicator
Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5), per capita
Unit
kt per person
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
171 places, 9,815 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed

Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.