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Energy — Emissions (CH4) 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
214
Highest
26,548 kt
China
Lowest
0 kt
Niue
Median
59 kt
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
14,415

What the numbers show

Energy — Emissions (CH4) is currently reported for 214 countries. The highest value is 26,548 kt in China; the lowest is 0 kt in Niue.

The median across all reporting countries is 59 kt, and the mean is 776.88 kt.

Over the past decade 116 countries rose and 95 fell. The largest increase was in Guyana (up 5,419.1%), and the largest decrease in Yemen (down 83.5%).

Energy — Emissions: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 26,548 kt 2023 up 16.2% rising
2 China, mainland 26,500 kt 2023 up 16.2% rising
3 OECD 23,587 kt 2023 up 3.0% falling
4 USSR 11,328 kt 1991 up 19.0% rising
5 Russian Federation 9,140 kt 2023 up 21.9% rising
6 Indonesia 8,920 kt 2023 up 63.7% volatile
7 India 4,960 kt 2023 up 35.5% rising
8 Iraq 4,810 kt 2023 up 44.4% rising
9 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 4,390 kt 2023 up 29.9% rising
10 Nigeria 4,030 kt 2023 down 25.0% rising
11 Saudi Arabia 2,390 kt 2023 up 2.1% rising
12 Canada 2,360 kt 2023 down 8.2% rising
13 Australia and New Zealand 1,743 kt 2023 down 3.3% rising
14 Australia 1,710 kt 2023 down 2.3% rising
15 Brazil 1,410 kt 2023 up 18.5% rising
16 Algeria 1,300 kt 2023 unchanged rising
17 Ukraine 1,180 kt 2023 down 35.2% falling
18 Pakistan 981 kt 2023 up 21.4% volatile
19 Kazakhstan 977 kt 2023 down 8.7% rising
20 Kuwait 950 kt 2023 down 7.8% falling
21 United Arab Emirates 932 kt 2023 up 11.9% rising
22 Mongolia 887 kt 2023 up 135.3% volatile
23 Oman 873 kt 2023 up 12.9% volatile
24 Viet Nam 864 kt 2023 down 9.3% volatile
25 Libya 782 kt 2023 up 16.2% volatile
26 Angola 775 kt 2023 down 30.2% volatile
27 Bahrain 765 kt 2023 down 0.1% rising
28 Democratic Republic of the Congo 760 kt 2023 up 23.2% volatile
29 Egypt 716 kt 2023 down 6.2% rising
30 Ethiopia 702 kt 2023 up 23.8% rising
31 Poland 641 kt 2023 down 29.1% volatile
32 Uzbekistan 625 kt 2023 down 12.8% rising
33 Qatar 622 kt 2023 down 7.9% volatile
34 Mexico 542 kt 2023 down 26.2% rising
35 Turkmenistan 489 kt 2023 down 13.0% rising
36 Gabon 487 kt 2023 up 11.4% rising
37 Congo 476 kt 2023 up 14.1% volatile
38 Germany 474 kt 2023 down 14.1% volatile
39 Philippines 456 kt 2023 up 36.5% rising
40 Uganda 443 kt 2023 up 80.1% volatile
41 Mozambique 441 kt 2023 up 45.1% volatile
42 Colombia 440 kt 2023 down 26.9% rising
43 United Republic of Tanzania 429 kt 2023 up 35.8% volatile
44 Argentina 421 kt 2023 up 10.8% rising
45 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 389 kt 2023 down 26.5% rising
46 Kenya 386 kt 2023 up 14.2% rising
47 Sudan (former) 385.5 kt 2011 up 12.8% rising
48 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 368 kt 2023 down 65.3% volatile
49 Ghana 349 kt 2023 up 46.0% volatile
50 Malaysia 346 kt 2023 down 8.0% volatile
51 Yugoslav SFR 325.38 kt 1991 up 39.1% rising
52 Cameroon 323 kt 2023 up 2.5% volatile
53 Türkiye 316 kt 2023 up 3.3% rising
54 Ethiopia PDR 298.5 kt 1992 up 45.8% rising
55 Ecuador 298 kt 2023 down 10.5% volatile
56 Sudan 282 kt 2023 up 15.6% rising
56 Thailand 282 kt 2023 down 59.7% rising
58 Italy 269 kt 2023 down 4.3% rising
59 Czechoslovakia 260.3 kt 1992 down 33.9% falling
61 France 218 kt 2023 down 6.8% volatile
62 Zambia 217 kt 2023 up 26.2% rising
63 Bangladesh 212 kt 2023 down 5.4% rising
64 Japan 209 kt 2023 down 16.1% falling
64 Côte d'Ivoire 209 kt 2023 down 1.9% volatile
66 Azerbaijan 179 kt 2023 up 4.7% rising
67 Somalia 178 kt 2023 up 9.9% volatile
68 Myanmar 172 kt 2023 up 6.8% rising
69 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 169 kt 2023 down 27.2% volatile
70 Madagascar 162 kt 2023 up 20.0% volatile
71 Republic of Korea 160 kt 2023 up 5.3% falling
72 Norway 156 kt 2023 down 7.7% volatile
73 Haiti 150 kt 2023 up 2.7% rising
74 Zimbabwe 144 kt 2023 up 35.8% rising
75 Romania 134 kt 2023 down 18.3% falling
76 Chad 129 kt 2023 up 24.0% volatile
77 Nepal 127 kt 2023 up 11.4% rising
78 Czechia 117 kt 2023 down 24.5% falling
78 Peru 117 kt 2023 down 13.3% flat
80 Bosnia and Herzegovina 116 kt 2023 up 58.0% rising
81 Burkina Faso 110 kt 2023 up 1.9% volatile
82 Guatemala 108 kt 2023 up 30.8% rising
83 Belgium 104 kt 2023 up 2.0% rising
84 Togo 103 kt 2023 up 31.9% volatile
85 Hungary 92.9 kt 2023 down 11.5% flat
86 Tunisia 92 kt 2023 down 27.6% rising
87 Belarus 90.8 kt 2023 down 2.0% falling
88 Spain 86.1 kt 2023 down 8.8% falling
89 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 84.8 kt 2023 down 26.9% volatile
90 Equatorial Guinea 83.8 kt 2023 down 67.4% volatile
91 Benin 80.3 kt 2023 up 25.3% volatile
92 Greece 77 kt 2023 down 32.5% rising
93 Malawi 76.4 kt 2023 up 4.8% volatile
94 Afghanistan 75.7 kt 2023 up 67.8% volatile
94 Lao People's Democratic Republic 75.7 kt 2023 up 96.1% volatile
96 Belgium-Luxembourg 75.52 kt 1999 down 31.7% falling
97 Guinea 75.2 kt 2023 down 6.5% rising
98 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 71.3 kt 2023 down 41.6% falling
99 Serbia and Montenegro 69.5 kt 2005 down 27.9% falling
100 Chile 66.5 kt 2023 down 53.8% falling
101 Serbia 65.4 kt 2023 down 2.2% flat
102 South Sudan 64.7 kt 2023 down 10.3% falling
103 Cambodia 64.6 kt 2023 up 0.2% volatile
104 Melanesia 63.48 kt 2023 up 120.7% volatile
105 Rwanda 63.1 kt 2023 up 21.8% falling
106 Papua New Guinea 62 kt 2023 up 126.3% volatile
107 Sierra Leone 60.3 kt 2023 up 1.7% rising
108 Liberia 59.5 kt 2023 up 13.5% volatile
109 Burundi 58.5 kt 2023 down 0.3% rising
110 Mali 58.2 kt 2023 up 61.7% volatile
111 Paraguay 57.1 kt 2023 up 5.9% rising
112 Austria 54.2 kt 2023 down 7.7% falling
113 Brunei Darussalam 52.5 kt 2023 down 27.8% volatile
114 Switzerland 52.4 kt 2023 up 66.3% rising
115 Guyana 52.1 kt 2023 up 5,419.1% volatile
116 Niger 51.3 kt 2023 up 33.6% volatile
117 Yemen 50.6 kt 2023 down 83.5% volatile
118 Botswana 49.1 kt 2023 up 51.1% volatile
119 Ireland 47 kt 2023 up 1.7% rising
120 Syrian Arab Republic 45 kt 2023 down 28.8% volatile
121 Portugal 44.8 kt 2023 up 57.2% rising
122 China, Taiwan Province of 43.6 kt 2023 down 2.5% falling
123 Bulgaria 43.4 kt 2023 down 10.7% falling
124 Tajikistan 42.5 kt 2023 up 141.5% volatile
125 Trinidad and Tobago 36.9 kt 2023 down 35.5% rising
126 Slovakia 36.2 kt 2023 up 7.1% falling
127 Kyrgyzstan 35.3 kt 2023 up 130.7% volatile
128 Sweden 35.2 kt 2023 up 1.4% rising
129 Finland 34.4 kt 2023 down 2.3% falling
130 Namibia 34.1 kt 2023 up 121.4% volatile
131 Senegal 33.7 kt 2023 down 39.5% rising
132 New Zealand 32.8 kt 2023 down 36.9% rising
133 Slovenia 31.8 kt 2023 down 33.9% falling
134 Denmark 30.6 kt 2023 up 2.3% volatile
135 Sri Lanka 29.9 kt 2023 down 23.7% rising
136 Mauritania 28.3 kt 2023 up 2.9% volatile
137 Croatia 24.9 kt 2023 down 6.0% falling
138 Eritrea 23 kt 2023 up 12.7% rising
139 Morocco 22.7 kt 2023 down 15.6% rising
140 Israel 22.6 kt 2023 up 86.8% volatile
141 Cuba 19.5 kt 2023 down 20.1% falling
142 Bhutan 19.4 kt 2023 up 14.8% volatile
143 Honduras 19.2 kt 2023 down 20.3% rising
144 Lesotho 17.8 kt 2023 down 7.8% rising
144 Singapore 17.8 kt 2023 down 6.8% rising
146 Dominican Republic 17.7 kt 2023 up 3.5% falling
147 Lithuania 17.3 kt 2023 down 4.9% rising
148 Guinea-Bissau 15.6 kt 2023 down 3.1% rising
149 Nicaragua 15.5 kt 2023 up 6.2% rising
150 Latvia 14.3 kt 2023 down 4.7% flat
151 Armenia 14.1 kt 2023 up 10.2% rising
152 Republic of Moldova 13.2 kt 2023 up 13.8% rising
153 Eswatini 11.9 kt 2023 down 9.8% rising
154 Albania 9.78 kt 2023 up 3.5% volatile
155 Estonia 9.5 kt 2023 up 21.8% rising
156 Uruguay 8.87 kt 2023 up 13.3% rising
157 Gambia 8.69 kt 2023 up 1.2% volatile
158 Georgia 8.51 kt 2023 down 26.6% falling
159 Jordan 7.47 kt 2023 up 89.6% volatile
160 North Macedonia 6.85 kt 2023 down 27.5% falling
161 Suriname 6.64 kt 2023 down 10.9% volatile
162 Montenegro 6.18 kt 2023 up 6.4% rising
163 Djibouti 6.1 kt 2023 down 1.6% volatile
164 Timor-Leste 5.89 kt 2023 down 74.7% volatile
165 Comoros 5.58 kt 2023 up 9.0% volatile
166 Pacific Islands Trust Territory 5.04 kt 1990 up 9.4% volatile
167 Jamaica 4.33 kt 2023 down 25.6% volatile
168 China, Hong Kong SAR 4.14 kt 2023 up 10.1% volatile
169 Panama 3.62 kt 2023 up 4.9% falling
170 Lebanon 3.51 kt 2023 unchanged rising
171 El Salvador 3.08 kt 2023 down 43.6% falling
172 Costa Rica 2.63 kt 2023 down 33.6% rising
173 Micronesia 1.8 kt 2023 up 34.7% volatile
174 Luxembourg 1.7 kt 2023 up 11.1% flat
175 Netherlands Antilles (former) 1.54 kt 2010 down 54.6% volatile
176 Sao Tome and Principe 1.23 kt 2023 down 2.4% volatile
177 Palau 0.989 kt 2023 up 14.6% volatile
178 Cyprus 0.902 kt 2023 up 51.6% rising
179 Cabo Verde 0.867 kt 2023 up 2.0% volatile
180 Belize 0.807 kt 2023 down 37.0% volatile
181 Marshall Islands 0.75 kt 2023 up 77.3% volatile
182 Solomon Islands 0.596 kt 2023 up 6.6% volatile
183 Mauritius 0.591 kt 2023 down 17.8% falling
184 Bahamas 0.581 kt 2023 up 1.6% rising
185 Maldives 0.536 kt 2023 up 58.1% volatile
186 Fiji 0.518 kt 2023 up 12.9% rising
187 China, Macao SAR 0.369 kt 2023 up 21.0% rising
188 Vanuatu 0.362 kt 2023 up 6.2% volatile
189 Polynesia 0.3549 kt 2023 up 8.8% rising
190 Iceland 0.316 kt 2023 down 14.6% rising
191 Barbados 0.308 kt 2023 down 41.1% volatile
192 Samoa 0.3 kt 2023 up 7.5% rising
193 Andorra 0.262 kt 2023 down 3.3% falling
194 Liechtenstein 0.234 kt 2023 up 62.5% volatile
195 Seychelles 0.198 kt 2023 up 55.9% volatile
196 Saint Lucia 0.152 kt 2023 down 6.2% volatile
197 San Marino 0.143 kt 2023 down 3.4% rising
198 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.135 kt 2023 down 9.4% rising
199 Aruba 0.134 kt 2023 down 26.0% volatile
200 Monaco 0.126 kt 2023 down 1.6% volatile
201 Dominica 0.0958 kt 2023 down 11.3% rising
202 Malta 0.0871 kt 2023 down 24.9% rising
203 Kiribati 0.0614 kt 2023 up 20.6% volatile
204 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0594 kt 2023 up 12.3% volatile
205 Tonga 0.0456 kt 2023 up 13.2% rising
206 British Virgin Islands 0.0347 kt 2023 up 7.8% volatile
207 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0271 kt 2023 up 16.3% rising
207 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0.0271 kt 2023 up 25.5% volatile
209 Grenada 0.0122 kt 2023 up 9.9% volatile
210 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0101 kt 2023 up 21.7% volatile
211 Cook Islands 0.0093 kt 2023 up 32.9% rising
212 Nauru 0.0042 kt 2023 up 61.5% rising
213 Anguilla 0.0037 kt 2023 down 22.9% volatile
214 Holy See 0.0021 kt 2023 down 19.2% rising
215 Niue 0 kt 2023 — volatile

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
Energy — Emissions (CH4)
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
250 places, 14,415 data points, 1961–2023
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