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Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (N2O), per square kilometre by country

Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (N2O) 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
0.0003 kt per square kilometre
Bangladesh
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Suriname
Median
0 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,815

What the numbers show

Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (N2O), per square kilometre is currently reported for 170 countries. The highest value is 0.0003 kt per square kilometre in Bangladesh; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Suriname.

The median across all reporting countries is 0 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0001 kt per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 269.

Over the past decade 96 countries rose and 73 fell. The largest increase was in Malawi (up 140.9%), and the largest decrease in Botswana (down 48.3%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Bangladesh 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.8% rising
2 Barbados 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% rising
3 Belgium 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% falling
4 Ireland 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.1% rising
5 Dominican Republic 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
6 Uganda 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 25.0% volatile
7 Pakistan 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 44.2% volatile
8 Burundi 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 66.0% volatile
9 Denmark 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.7% falling
10 Haiti 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.9% rising
11 Malawi 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 140.9% volatile
12 Luxembourg 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 4.8% flat
13 Malta 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 27.3% rising
14 Tuvalu 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.1% rising
15 Rwanda 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.3% volatile
16 Lebanon 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.3% rising
17 Ethiopia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 33.2% rising
18 New Zealand 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.3% falling
19 Mauritius 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.6% rising
20 Uruguay 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.0% flat
21 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.4% rising
22 Israel 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.2% rising
23 India 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.6% rising
24 Kenya 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 23.6% rising
25 Switzerland 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.9% falling
26 Nigeria 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% volatile
27 Azerbaijan 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.6% rising
28 Burkina Faso 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.1% volatile
29 Grenada 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 29.1% rising
30 Tonga 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% rising
31 Germany 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.1% falling
32 Guatemala 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 18.0% rising
33 Togo 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 46.6% volatile
34 Costa Rica 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 49.9% rising
35 El Salvador 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% falling
36 Bahrain 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.8% rising
37 Qatar 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 139.7% volatile
38 Nicaragua 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.1% rising
39 Chad 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 81.9% volatile
40 State of Palestine 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.7% rising
41 Cuba 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.2% falling
42 Nepal 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.0% rising
43 France 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.2% falling
44 Comoros 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.5% rising
45 Singapore 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.5% volatile
46 Uzbekistan 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 38.1% rising
47 Gambia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 17.5% rising
48 Jamaica 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% rising
49 Guinea-Bissau 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.6% rising
50 Guinea 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 56.2% volatile
51 Senegal 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% rising
52 Kuwait 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 35.7% volatile
53 Benin 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 43.4% rising
54 Eswatini 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.1% rising
55 Saint Lucia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% rising
56 Italy 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.6% falling
57 Albania 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 36.7% rising
58 South Sudan 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.3% rising
59 Poland 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.8% falling
60 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.4% rising
61 Paraguay 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.8% rising
62 Austria 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.8% falling
63 Philippines 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.2% rising
64 Spain 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.4% rising
65 Colombia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 33.2% rising
66 Brazil 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.8% rising
67 Puerto Rico 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 22.0% falling
68 Slovenia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.6% falling
69 Honduras 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
70 Armenia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.6% rising
71 Indonesia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 57.2% rising
72 China 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.0% rising
73 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 25.5% flat
74 Lesotho 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.3% rising
75 Belarus 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.6% falling
76 Mexico 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.3% rising
77 Portugal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.4% falling
78 Dominica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.9% rising
79 Ghana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 48.3% volatile
80 Samoa 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.0% rising
81 Tajikistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 24.0% rising
82 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 22.8% volatile
83 Eritrea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
84 Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.0% flat
85 Romania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.2% falling
86 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.4% flat
87 Panama 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 4.8% rising
88 Cyprus 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 33.8% rising
89 Greece 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 24.6% falling
90 Myanmar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 32.1% rising
91 Nauru 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
92 Czechia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 4.1% falling
93 Morocco 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% rising
94 Tunisia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% rising
95 Serbia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.2% falling
96 Djibouti 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.6% rising
97 Ecuador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 21.5% rising
98 Cambodia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.3% rising
99 Sierra Leone 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.8% volatile
100 Hungary 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.0% falling
101 Japan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.7% rising
102 Argentina 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% flat
103 Mali 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 53.5% volatile
104 Georgia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 22.5% falling
105 United Arab Emirates 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.0% volatile
106 Somalia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.5% rising
107 Zimbabwe 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% rising
108 Niger 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 47.7% volatile
109 Cameroon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% rising
110 Thailand 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.9% falling
111 Fiji 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 44.0% rising
112 Seychelles 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 56.5% rising
113 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.8% rising
114 North Macedonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 27.9% falling
115 Madagascar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.5% rising
116 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 30.0% flat
117 Lithuania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.5% falling
118 South Africa 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.3% flat
119 Croatia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.8% falling
120 Faroe Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.2% flat
121 Slovakia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.6% falling
122 Turkmenistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.5% rising
123 Yemen 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.9% rising
124 Sri Lanka 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% falling
125 Montenegro 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.7% falling
126 Iraq 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.4% falling
127 Jordan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 22.4% rising
128 Vanuatu 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 45.6% rising
129 Mongolia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 54.1% rising
130 Malaysia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% rising
131 Afghanistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.1% rising
132 Central African Republic 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.1% volatile
133 Peru 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
134 Bulgaria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 16.1% volatile
135 Latvia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.1% falling
136 Ukraine 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 41.0% volatile
137 Estonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% falling
138 Kiribati 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.3% rising
139 Egypt 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 33.6% rising
140 Australia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.1% falling
141 Zambia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.4% rising
142 Chile 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.2% rising
143 French Polynesia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.0% rising
144 New Caledonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.7% falling
145 Angola 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.5% rising
146 Mauritania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.0% rising
147 Belize 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.2% rising
148 Namibia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 29.2% rising
149 Norway 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.4% falling
150 Mozambique 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.8% rising
151 Kazakhstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 23.9% flat
152 Sweden 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 21.0% falling
153 Algeria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 15.5% rising
154 Finland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.4% falling
155 Oman 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.7% volatile
156 Liberia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.3% rising
157 Bhutan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.1% rising
158 Saudi Arabia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 64.6% volatile
159 Bahamas 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.2% rising
160 Botswana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 48.3% falling
161 Iceland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% falling
162 Guyana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.5% flat
163 Canada 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.2% rising
164 Libya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.4% rising
165 Congo 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% volatile
166 Solomon Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.4% rising
167 Papua New Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% rising
168 Gabon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% rising
169 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% rising
170 Suriname 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.3% rising

Regions and income groups

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

  • World 0 kt per square kilometre

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Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (N2O) 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 (N2O) Γ· Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Emissions from livestock β€” Emissions (N2O), 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 (N2O) 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.