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Fires in organic soils — Emissions in Malaysia

Malaysia: Fires in organic soils — Emissions was 61.14 kt in 2024. ◆ Volatile

Latest (2024)
61.14 kt
Change on year
up 285.6%
World rank
2nd
of 218 countries
All-time high
298.99 kt
in 1998
All-time low
1.71 kt
in 2001
Years of data
35
1990–2024

Fires in organic soils — Emissions in Malaysia, 1990–2024

01002003001990200720241990: 78.8 kt1991: 78.8 kt1992: 78.8 kt1993: 78.8 kt1994: 78.8 kt1995: 78.8 kt1996: 53.3 kt1997: 69.1 kt1998: 299 kt1999: 46.6 kt2000: 46.2 kt2001: 1.7 kt2002: 70.7 kt2003: 59.8 kt2004: 135 kt2005: 158.6 kt2006: 44.3 kt2007: 92.5 kt2008: 39.1 kt2009: 191 kt2010: 108.2 kt2011: 92.4 kt2012: 45.5 kt2013: 68.7 kt2014: 225 kt2015: 69.4 kt2016: 90.3 kt2017: 2.5 kt2018: 60.7 kt2019: 79.6 kt2020: 20.7 kt2021: 27 kt2022: 11.7 kt2023: 15.9 kt2024: 61.1 kt

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kt.

Analysis

The most recent figure for fires in organic soils — emissions in Malaysia is 61.14 kt, measured in 2024.

The figure is up 285.6% on the previous year and down 72.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, fires in organic soils — emissions in Malaysia peaked at 298.99 kt in 1998 and was at its lowest, 1.71 kt, in 2001.

That places Malaysia 2nd out of 218 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.

The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.

Fires in organic soils — Emissions in Malaysia, year by year

Year kt Change
1990 78.82 kt —
1991 78.82 kt +0.0%
1992 78.82 kt +0.0%
1993 78.82 kt +0.0%
1994 78.82 kt +0.0%
1995 78.82 kt +0.0%
1996 53.32 kt -32.4%
1997 69.12 kt +29.6%
1998 298.99 kt +332.6%
1999 46.56 kt -84.4%
2000 46.24 kt -0.7%
2001 1.71 kt -96.3%
2002 70.68 kt +4031.0%
2003 59.85 kt -15.3%
2004 134.97 kt +125.5%
2005 158.62 kt +17.5%
2006 44.28 kt -72.1%
2007 92.52 kt +109.0%
2008 39.11 kt -57.7%
2009 190.96 kt +388.3%
2010 108.18 kt -43.4%
2011 92.41 kt -14.6%
2012 45.52 kt -50.7%
2013 68.73 kt +51.0%
2014 225.02 kt +227.4%
2015 69.43 kt -69.1%
2016 90.31 kt +30.1%
2017 2.53 kt -97.2%
2018 60.73 kt +2295.8%
2019 79.59 kt +31.1%
2020 20.71 kt -74.0%
2021 27 kt +30.4%
2022 11.66 kt -56.8%
2023 15.86 kt +36.0%
2024 61.14 kt +285.6%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 94.09 kt 46.56 kt 298.99 kt 10
2000s 83.89 kt 1.71 kt 190.96 kt 10
2010s 84.25 kt 2.53 kt 225.02 kt 10
2020s 27.27 kt 11.66 kt 61.14 kt 5

Countries ranked near Malaysia

  1. 1 Indonesia 205.22 kt compare
  2. 3 Myanmar 43.34 kt compare
  3. 4 Thailand 0.3803 kt compare
  4. 5 Afghanistan 0 kt
  5. 5 Albania 0 kt
  6. 5 Algeria 0 kt
  7. 5 American Samoa 0 kt
  8. 5 Andorra 0 kt
  9. 5 Angola 0 kt
  10. 5 Anguilla 0 kt
  11. 5 Antigua and Barbuda 0 kt
  12. 5 Argentina 0 kt
  13. 5 Armenia 0 kt
  14. 5 Aruba 0 kt
  15. 5 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0 kt
  16. 5 Australia 0 kt
  17. 5 Austria 0 kt
  18. 5 Azerbaijan 0 kt
  19. 5 Bahamas 0 kt
  20. 5 Bahrain 0 kt
  21. 5 Bangladesh 0 kt
  22. 5 Barbados 0 kt
  23. 5 Belarus 0 kt
  24. 5 Belgium 0 kt
  25. 5 Belgium-Luxembourg 0 kt
  26. 5 Belize 0 kt
  27. 5 Benin 0 kt
  28. 5 Bermuda 0 kt
  29. 5 Bhutan 0 kt
  30. 5 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 kt
  31. 5 Botswana 0 kt
  32. 5 Brazil 0 kt
  33. 5 British Virgin Islands 0 kt
  34. 5 Brunei Darussalam 0 kt compare
  35. 5 Bulgaria 0 kt
  36. 5 Burkina Faso 0 kt
  37. 5 Burundi 0 kt
  38. 5 Cambodia 0 kt
  39. 5 Cameroon 0 kt
  40. 5 Canada 0 kt
  41. 5 Cayman Islands 0 kt
  42. 5 Central African Republic 0 kt
  43. 5 Chad 0 kt
  44. 5 Chile 0 kt
  45. 5 China 0 kt
  46. 5 China, Hong Kong SAR 0 kt
  47. 5 China, Macao SAR 0 kt
  48. 5 China, mainland 0 kt
  49. 5 China, Taiwan Province of 0 kt
  50. 5 Colombia 0 kt
  51. 5 Comoros 0 kt
  52. 5 Congo 0 kt
  53. 5 Cook Islands 0 kt
  54. 5 Costa Rica 0 kt
  55. 5 Croatia 0 kt
  56. 5 Cuba 0 kt
  57. 5 Cyprus 0 kt
  58. 5 Czechia 0 kt
  59. 5 Denmark 0 kt
  60. 5 Djibouti 0 kt
  61. 5 Dominica 0 kt
  62. 5 Dominican Republic 0 kt
  63. 5 Ecuador 0 kt
  64. 5 Egypt 0 kt
  65. 5 El Salvador 0 kt
  66. 5 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt
  67. 5 Eritrea 0 kt
  68. 5 Estonia 0 kt
  69. 5 Eswatini 0 kt
  70. 5 Ethiopia 0 kt
  71. 5 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0 kt
  72. 5 Faroe Islands 0 kt
  73. 5 Fiji 0 kt
  74. 5 Finland 0 kt
  75. 5 France 0 kt
  76. 5 French Guiana 0 kt
  77. 5 French Polynesia 0 kt
  78. 5 Gabon 0 kt
  79. 5 Gambia 0 kt
  80. 5 Georgia 0 kt
  81. 5 Germany 0 kt
  82. 5 Ghana 0 kt
  83. 5 Gibraltar 0 kt
  84. 5 Greece 0 kt
  85. 5 Greenland 0 kt
  86. 5 Grenada 0 kt
  87. 5 Guadeloupe 0 kt
  88. 5 Guam 0 kt
  89. 5 Guatemala 0 kt
  90. 5 Guinea 0 kt
  91. 5 Guinea-Bissau 0 kt
  92. 5 Guyana 0 kt
  93. 5 Haiti 0 kt
  94. 5 Honduras 0 kt
  95. 5 Hungary 0 kt
  96. 5 Iceland 0 kt
  97. 5 India 0 kt
  98. 5 Iraq 0 kt
  99. 5 Ireland 0 kt
  100. 5 Isle of Man 0 kt
  101. 5 Israel 0 kt
  102. 5 Italy 0 kt
  103. 5 Jamaica 0 kt
  104. 5 Japan 0 kt
  105. 5 Jordan 0 kt
  106. 5 Kazakhstan 0 kt
  107. 5 Kenya 0 kt
  108. 5 Kiribati 0 kt
  109. 5 Kuwait 0 kt
  110. 5 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt
  111. 5 Latvia 0 kt
  112. 5 Lebanon 0 kt
  113. 5 Lesotho 0 kt
  114. 5 Liberia 0 kt
  115. 5 Libya 0 kt
  116. 5 Lithuania 0 kt
  117. 5 Luxembourg 0 kt
  118. 5 Madagascar 0 kt
  119. 5 Malawi 0 kt
  120. 5 Maldives 0 kt
  121. 5 Mali 0 kt
  122. 5 Malta 0 kt
  123. 5 Marshall Islands 0 kt
  124. 5 Martinique 0 kt
  125. 5 Mauritania 0 kt
  126. 5 Mauritius 0 kt
  127. 5 Mayotte 0 kt
  128. 5 Mexico 0 kt
  129. 5 Mongolia 0 kt
  130. 5 Montenegro 0 kt
  131. 5 Montserrat 0 kt
  132. 5 Morocco 0 kt
  133. 5 Mozambique 0 kt
  134. 5 Namibia 0 kt
  135. 5 Naoero 0 kt
  136. 5 Nepal 0 kt
  137. 5 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0 kt
  138. 5 Netherlands Antilles (former) 0 kt
  139. 5 New Caledonia 0 kt
  140. 5 New Zealand 0 kt
  141. 5 Nicaragua 0 kt
  142. 5 Niger 0 kt
  143. 5 Nigeria 0 kt
  144. 5 Niue 0 kt
  145. 5 Norfolk Island 0 kt
  146. 5 North Macedonia 0 kt
  147. 5 Northern Mariana Islands 0 kt
  148. 5 Norway 0 kt
  149. 5 Oman 0 kt
  150. 5 Pakistan 0 kt
  151. 5 Palau 0 kt
  152. 5 Palestine, State of 0 kt
  153. 5 Panama 0 kt
  154. 5 Papua New Guinea 0 kt
  155. 5 Paraguay 0 kt
  156. 5 Peru 0 kt
  157. 5 Philippines 0 kt
  158. 5 Pitcairn 0 kt
  159. 5 Poland 0 kt
  160. 5 Portugal 0 kt
  161. 5 Puerto Rico 0 kt
  162. 5 Qatar 0 kt
  163. 5 Republic of Korea 0 kt
  164. 5 Réunion 0 kt
  165. 5 Romania 0 kt
  166. 5 Russian Federation 0 kt
  167. 5 Rwanda 0 kt
  168. 5 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kt
  169. 5 Saint Lucia 0 kt
  170. 5 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 kt
  171. 5 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kt
  172. 5 Samoa 0 kt
  173. 5 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt
  174. 5 Saudi Arabia 0 kt
  175. 5 Senegal 0 kt
  176. 5 Serbia 0 kt
  177. 5 Serbia and Montenegro 0 kt
  178. 5 Seychelles 0 kt
  179. 5 Sierra Leone 0 kt
  180. 5 Singapore 0 kt
  181. 5 Slovakia 0 kt
  182. 5 Slovenia 0 kt
  183. 5 Solomon Islands 0 kt
  184. 5 Somalia 0 kt
  185. 5 South Africa 0 kt
  186. 5 South Sudan 0 kt
  187. 5 Spain 0 kt
  188. 5 Sri Lanka 0 kt
  189. 5 Sudan 0 kt
  190. 5 Sudan (former) 0 kt
  191. 5 Suriname 0 kt
  192. 5 Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands 0 kt
  193. 5 Sweden 0 kt
  194. 5 Switzerland 0 kt
  195. 5 Tajikistan 0 kt
  196. 5 Togo 0 kt
  197. 5 Tokelau 0 kt
  198. 5 Tonga 0 kt
  199. 5 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kt
  200. 5 Tunisia 0 kt
  201. 5 Turkmenistan 0 kt
  202. 5 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 kt
  203. 5 Tuvalu 0 kt
  204. 5 Uganda 0 kt
  205. 5 Ukraine 0 kt
  206. 5 United Arab Emirates 0 kt
  207. 5 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0 kt
  208. 5 United States Virgin Islands 0 kt
  209. 5 Uruguay 0 kt
  210. 5 Uzbekistan 0 kt
  211. 5 Vanuatu 0 kt
  212. 5 Western Sahara 0 kt
  213. 5 Yemen 0 kt
  214. 5 Zambia 0 kt
  215. 5 Zimbabwe 0 kt
  216. 5 Australia and New Zealand 0 kt
  217. 5 OECD 0 kt

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Frequently asked questions

What is fires in organic soils — emissions in Malaysia?
Fires in organic soils — emissions in Malaysia was 61.14 kt in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest fires in organic soils — emissions recorded in Malaysia?
The highest recorded value was 298.99 kt in 1998.
What is the lowest fires in organic soils — emissions recorded in Malaysia?
The lowest recorded value was 1.71 kt in 2001.
How does Malaysia rank for fires in organic soils — emissions?
Malaysia ranks 2nd out of 218 countries with data for 2024.
Is fires in organic soils — emissions rising or falling in Malaysia?
Over the last ten years it is down 72.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
Where does this Malaysia data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Fires in organic soils — Emissions (CH4). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Fires in organic soils — Emissions (CH4)
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
270 places, 9,224 data points, 1990–2024
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions from Fires consists of estimates of methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from biomass burning in a range of vegetation types and from fires in organic soils.