Enteric Fermentation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5), per capita by country

Enteric Fermentation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (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
0.0059 kt per person
Uruguay
Lowest
0 kt per person
Singapore
Median
0.0003 kt per person
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,815

What the numbers show

Enteric Fermentation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5), per capita is currently reported for 170 countries. The highest value is 0.0059 kt per person in Uruguay; the lowest is 0 kt per person in Singapore.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0003 kt per person, and the mean is 0.0005 kt per person.

Over the past decade 42 countries rose and 128 fell. The largest increase was in Saudi Arabia (up 88.9%), and the largest decrease in Vanuatu (down 57.6%).

Enteric Fermentation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5), per capita: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Uruguay 0.0059 kt per person 2023 down 0.3% falling
2 Mongolia 0.0053 kt per person 2023 up 33.0% falling
3 New Zealand 0.0049 kt per person 2023 down 23.2% falling
4 Chad 0.0032 kt per person 2023 up 29.4% rising
5 Paraguay 0.0031 kt per person 2023 down 11.8% flat
6 Ireland 0.0026 kt per person 2023 down 15.2% falling
7 Australia 0.0026 kt per person 2023 down 13.2% falling
8 Argentina 0.002 kt per person 2023 down 2.2% falling
9 Brazil 0.0019 kt per person 2023 up 4.9% rising
10 South Sudan 0.0018 kt per person 2023 up 12.5% rising
11 Nicaragua 0.0014 kt per person 2023 up 5.4% falling
12 Mauritania 0.0013 kt per person 2023 down 17.4% falling
13 Namibia 0.0013 kt per person 2023 down 0.6% falling
14 Central African Republic 0.001 kt per person 2023 up 0.8% rising
15 Sudan 0.001 kt per person 2023 down 23.1% falling
16 Mali 0.001 kt per person 2023 up 10.7% falling
17 Colombia 0.001 kt per person 2023 up 9.9% falling
18 Eritrea 0.0009 kt per person 2023 down 7.4% falling
19 Belarus 0.0009 kt per person 2023 down 2.0% falling
20 Somalia 0.0009 kt per person 2023 down 30.1% falling
21 Turkmenistan 0.0009 kt per person 2023 down 8.4% rising
22 Niger 0.0009 kt per person 2023 up 3.3% falling
23 Costa Rica 0.0008 kt per person 2023 up 45.0% falling
24 Iceland 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 19.7% falling
25 Uzbekistan 0.0007 kt per person 2023 up 16.7% rising
26 Kazakhstan 0.0007 kt per person 2023 up 1.0% falling
27 Ethiopia 0.0007 kt per person 2023 up 0.7% rising
28 Guinea 0.0006 kt per person 2023 up 20.5% rising
29 Kenya 0.0006 kt per person 2023 up 2.2% falling
30 Denmark 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 14.8% falling
31 Pakistan 0.0006 kt per person 2023 up 16.3% falling
32 Luxembourg 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 19.9% falling
33 Burkina Faso 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 14.4% rising
34 Kyrgyzstan 0.0006 kt per person 2023 up 0.3% rising
35 Cuba 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 13.2% falling
36 Panama 0.0006 kt per person 2023 down 24.4% falling
37 Vanuatu 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 57.6% falling
38 Mexico 0.0005 kt per person 2023 up 1.8% falling
39 Albania 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 27.9% flat
40 France 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 15.7% falling
41 Peru 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 8.3% falling
42 Canada 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 18.0% falling
43 Lithuania 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 18.2% falling
44 New Caledonia 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 16.6% falling
45 Tajikistan 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 4.5% rising
46 Dominican Republic 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 6.5% falling
47 Eswatini 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 21.4% falling
48 Honduras 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 11.9% falling
49 Djibouti 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 12.3% falling
50 Austria 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 11.8% falling
51 Botswana 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 56.5% falling
52 Latvia 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 6.9% falling
53 Slovenia 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 7.6% falling
54 Dominica 0.0004 kt per person 2023 up 5.2% rising
55 Bhutan 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 16.1% falling
56 Belize 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 23.9% falling
57 Norway 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 9.0% falling
58 Faroe Islands 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 3.1% falling
59 Guinea-Bissau 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 14.0% rising
60 Zimbabwe 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 14.9% falling
61 Estonia 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 10.7% falling
62 Belgium 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 11.1% falling
63 Switzerland 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 13.3% falling
64 Guatemala 0.0004 kt per person 2023 up 2.4% falling
65 Montenegro 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 18.8% falling
66 Nepal 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 34.4% falling
67 Azerbaijan 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 17.6% rising
68 Uganda 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 12.9% falling
69 Poland 0.0004 kt per person 2023 up 7.3% falling
70 Romania 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 1.6% falling
71 Ecuador 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 36.7% falling
72 Myanmar 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 37.0% rising
73 Samoa 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 25.0% rising
74 Serbia 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 11.0% falling
75 Fiji 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 49.4% falling
76 Senegal 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 13.4% falling
77 Spain 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 1.3% falling
78 Lesotho 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 24.9% falling
79 Portugal 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 0.5% falling
80 Greece 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 11.1% falling
81 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 17.9% rising
82 Finland 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 17.5% falling
83 Germany 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 16.6% falling
84 Georgia 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 24.3% rising
85 Tonga 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 7.4% rising
86 North Macedonia 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 29.4% falling
87 India 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 3.5% falling
88 Haiti 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 7.6% falling
89 Chile 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 16.2% falling
90 Sweden 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 20.3% falling
91 Cambodia 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 20.1% falling
92 Afghanistan 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 24.1% falling
93 Italy 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 1.2% falling
94 Guyana 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 15.6% falling
95 Oman 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 8.2% rising
96 Czechia 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 4.1% falling
97 Croatia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 12.4% falling
98 Libya 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 9.4% falling
99 Madagascar 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 40.2% falling
100 Cameroon 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 21.3% falling
101 Benin 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 2.7% flat
102 South Africa 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 23.7% falling
103 Zambia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 10.4% falling
104 Bulgaria 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 3.4% falling
105 El Salvador 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 13.3% falling
106 Armenia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 19.2% rising
107 Hungary 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 7.9% falling
108 Saudi Arabia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 88.9% falling
109 Morocco 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 11.3% falling
110 Bangladesh 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 2.8% falling
111 Togo 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 16.6% flat
112 Malawi 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 54.8% rising
113 Tunisia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 15.3% falling
114 Nigeria 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 7.7% rising
115 Algeria 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 7.8% falling
116 Slovakia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 14.6% falling
117 China 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 9.8% falling
118 Ukraine 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 37.8% volatile
119 Angola 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 22.4% falling
120 United Arab Emirates 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 5.7% volatile
121 Yemen 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 20.2% falling
122 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 23.7% falling
123 Gambia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 38.6% falling
124 Grenada 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 17.8% falling
125 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 2.5% falling
126 Sierra Leone 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 19.5% rising
127 Qatar 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 25.4% volatile
128 Ghana 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 19.8% falling
129 Burundi 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 9.4% falling
130 Puerto Rico 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 1.5% falling
131 Rwanda 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 17.8% falling
132 Saint Lucia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 5.7% falling
133 Jamaica 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 8.1% falling
134 Indonesia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 22.5% falling
135 Thailand 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 16.0% falling
136 Suriname 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 35.4% falling
137 Iraq 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 26.2% volatile
138 Comoros 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 16.9% falling
139 Barbados 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 5.4% falling
140 Mozambique 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 6.4% falling
141 Sri Lanka 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 10.9% falling
142 Philippines 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 12.4% falling
143 Cyprus 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 42.9% falling
144 Malta 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 28.4% falling
145 French Polynesia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 7.3% volatile
146 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 26.4% falling
147 Israel 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 4.4% falling
148 Egypt 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 56.8% falling
149 Congo 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 22.9% rising
150 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 0.9% falling
151 Jordan 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 18.6% volatile
152 Japan 0 kt per person 2023 up 0.6% falling
153 Lebanon 0 kt per person 2023 down 0.9% falling
154 Tuvalu 0 kt per person 2023 up 17.7% rising
155 Kuwait 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.1% falling
156 Palestine, State of 0 kt per person 2023 down 7.7% falling
157 Gabon 0 kt per person 2023 down 18.9% rising
158 Solomon Islands 0 kt per person 2023 down 23.4% volatile
159 Malaysia 0 kt per person 2023 down 24.4% falling
160 Liberia 0 kt per person 2023 down 15.7% falling
161 Papua New Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 down 19.4% falling
162 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt per person 2023 up 0.9% falling
163 Bahrain 0 kt per person 2023 down 11.1% falling
164 Seychelles 0 kt per person 2023 down 7.2% falling
165 Bahamas 0 kt per person 2023 down 4.3% volatile
166 Naoero 0 kt per person 2023 down 11.4% rising
167 Mauritius 0 kt per person 2023 down 32.0% volatile
168 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 down 24.1% falling
169 Kiribati 0 kt per person 2023 down 2.0% falling
170 Singapore 0 kt per person 2023 down 13.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

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

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Enteric Fermentation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Enteric Fermentation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) ÷ Population, total

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Indicator
Enteric Fermentation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (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
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Enteric Fermentation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.