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Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (CH4), per square kilometre by country

Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (CH4) 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
170
Highest
0.0098 kt per square kilometre
Bangladesh
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Suriname
Median
0.001 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,815

What the numbers show

Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (CH4), per square kilometre is currently reported for 170 countries. The highest value is 0.0098 kt per square kilometre in Bangladesh; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Suriname.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.001 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0014 kt per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 726.

Over the past decade 89 countries rose and 81 fell. The largest increase was in Saudi Arabia (up 127.2%), and the largest decrease in Botswana (down 49.7%).

Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Bangladesh 0.0098 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.8% rising
2 Ireland 0.0082 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.1% rising
3 Tuvalu 0.0075 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
4 Belgium 0.0075 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.7% falling
5 Pakistan 0.0073 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 36.8% volatile
6 Malta 0.0068 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.3% rising
7 Luxembourg 0.0063 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.0% flat
8 Denmark 0.0056 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.3% falling
9 India 0.0053 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.1% rising
10 Haiti 0.0043 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.2% rising
11 Dominican Republic 0.0042 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.9% rising
12 Uruguay 0.0042 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.0% rising
13 New Zealand 0.0039 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.9% flat
14 Switzerland 0.0038 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.1% falling
15 Uganda 0.0034 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.3% volatile
16 Germany 0.0033 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.0% falling
17 Tonga 0.0033 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.3% rising
18 Nepal 0.003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.4% rising
19 Nicaragua 0.0028 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.2% rising
20 Costa Rica 0.0028 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 56.5% rising
21 Ethiopia 0.0028 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 31.8% rising
22 France 0.0027 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% falling
23 Burundi 0.0026 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 45.6% rising
24 Rwanda 0.0025 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% rising
25 El Salvador 0.0025 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.7% falling
26 Guatemala 0.0025 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.4% rising
27 Italy 0.0023 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.1% falling
28 Barbados 0.0023 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% falling
29 Nauru 0.0023 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.9% rising
30 Uzbekistan 0.0022 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 38.9% rising
31 Cuba 0.0022 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.6% falling
32 Kenya 0.0022 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 23.4% rising
33 Austria 0.0022 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.6% falling
34 Paraguay 0.002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
35 Slovenia 0.0019 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.1% falling
36 Poland 0.0019 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% falling
37 Albania 0.0019 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 37.6% rising
38 Chad 0.0019 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 82.9% volatile
39 Spain 0.0018 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.2% rising
40 Portugal 0.0018 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% flat
41 Burkina Faso 0.0018 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% volatile
42 Grenada 0.0018 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% flat
43 Belarus 0.0018 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 4.9% falling
44 Brazil 0.0017 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.7% rising
45 Azerbaijan 0.0017 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.2% rising
46 Malawi 0.0017 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 106.2% volatile
47 Colombia 0.0016 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 25.0% rising
48 Nigeria 0.0016 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.4% rising
49 Honduras 0.0016 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.5% rising
50 Puerto Rico 0.0016 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.7% falling
51 Samoa 0.0015 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 28.1% rising
52 Czechia 0.0015 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.2% falling
53 Comoros 0.0014 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.5% flat
54 Tajikistan 0.0014 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.4% rising
55 Guinea 0.0014 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 55.2% volatile
56 Gambia 0.0014 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 20.7% rising
57 Dominica 0.0014 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% rising
58 Saint Lucia 0.0013 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.0% rising
59 Philippines 0.0013 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 4.1% rising
60 Mexico 0.0013 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.7% rising
61 Serbia 0.0013 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.9% falling
62 Panama 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.3% rising
63 Romania 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% falling
64 Eswatini 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.3% rising
65 State of Palestine 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.5% rising
66 Jamaica 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.8% falling
67 Argentina 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% flat
68 Senegal 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.8% rising
69 Guinea-Bissau 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% rising
70 Israel 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% rising
71 South Sudan 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 15.7% rising
72 Qatar 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 80.0% volatile
73 Bahrain 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.3% rising
74 Myanmar 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 33.7% rising
75 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0011 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 18.6% rising
76 Togo 0.0011 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 41.2% volatile
77 Benin 0.0011 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 36.1% rising
78 Sri Lanka 0.0011 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.9% falling
79 Cambodia 0.0011 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.1% rising
80 Greece 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.2% falling
81 Somalia 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% rising
82 Hungary 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.6% falling
83 Eritrea 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.4% rising
84 Lebanon 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.8% rising
85 Lithuania 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 22.0% falling
86 Sudan 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% flat
87 Ecuador 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 27.7% rising
88 China 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% rising
89 Lesotho 0.0009 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.4% rising
90 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0009 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% falling
91 North Macedonia 0.0009 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 31.5% falling
92 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0009 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 28.4% falling
93 Armenia 0.0008 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.8% rising
94 Djibouti 0.0008 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.6% rising
95 Kyrgyzstan 0.0008 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 23.3% rising
96 Slovak Republic 0.0008 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 17.0% falling
97 Croatia 0.0008 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 21.4% falling
98 United Arab Emirates 0.0008 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 28.5% volatile
99 Fiji 0.0008 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 44.3% rising
100 Montenegro 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 17.7% falling
101 Japan 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.4% rising
102 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.9% falling
103 Ghana 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 47.8% rising
104 Niger 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 45.7% volatile
105 Mali 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 50.7% volatile
106 Thailand 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.1% falling
107 Indonesia 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 34.1% rising
108 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.9% falling
109 Afghanistan 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% rising
110 Zimbabwe 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.7% rising
111 Morocco 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% rising
112 Vanuatu 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 43.1% rising
113 Faroe Islands 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.0% flat
114 Sierra Leone 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.5% volatile
115 Georgia 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 24.3% falling
116 Latvia 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.1% falling
117 Estonia 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.4% falling
118 Turkmenistan 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.4% rising
119 Bulgaria 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% falling
120 Cameroon 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.5% rising
121 Tunisia 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.7% rising
122 Peru 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% rising
123 Madagascar 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 22.2% flat
124 Cyprus 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 32.1% rising
125 Ukraine 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 46.9% volatile
126 Kuwait 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 42.9% volatile
127 South Africa 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.7% flat
128 Mongolia 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 59.7% rising
129 Yemen 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% rising
130 Iraq 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 4.3% falling
131 Australia 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% falling
132 Mauritius 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.1% falling
133 Bhutan 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.7% rising
134 French Polynesia 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.9% rising
135 Central African Republic 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.8% volatile
136 New Caledonia 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.6% falling
137 Kiribati 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.8% rising
138 Sweden 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.1% falling
139 Belize 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.3% rising
140 Jordan 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.1% rising
141 Chile 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.6% flat
142 Norway 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% falling
143 Finland 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.7% falling
144 Egypt 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 47.2% rising
145 Zambia 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.5% rising
146 Mauritania 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.1% rising
147 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.7% rising
148 Kazakhstan 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 15.1% falling
149 Malaysia 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.4% rising
150 Namibia 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 30.7% rising
151 Angola 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.5% rising
152 Oman 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.7% volatile
153 Seychelles 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 30.9% falling
154 Mozambique 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 24.8% rising
155 Algeria 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.2% rising
156 Saudi Arabia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 127.2% volatile
157 Iceland 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.9% falling
158 Canada 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.8% falling
159 Singapore 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.8% volatile
160 Papua New Guinea 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.5% rising
161 Botswana 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 49.7% falling
162 Solomon Islands 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% rising
163 Liberia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.6% rising
164 Guyana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.4% falling
165 Congo 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.8% volatile
166 Libya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% rising
167 Bahamas 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% falling
168 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% rising
169 Gabon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.2% rising
170 Suriname 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 26.7% rising

Regions and income groups

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

  • World 0.0009 kt per square kilometre

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Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (CH4) 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.

Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (CH4) Γ· Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (CH4), per square kilometre
Unit
kt per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
171 places, 9,815 data points, 1961–2023
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Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (CH4) 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.