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Fires in organic soils — Emissions in Myanmar

Myanmar: Fires in organic soils — Emissions was 43.34 kt in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
43.34 kt
Change on year
up 16.4%
World rank
3rd
of 218 countries
All-time high
58.79 kt
in 2020
All-time low
11.76 kt
in 1997
Years of data
35
1990–2024

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

1020304050601990200720241990: 32.8 kt1991: 32.8 kt1992: 32.8 kt1993: 32.8 kt1994: 32.8 kt1995: 32.8 kt1996: 16.1 kt1997: 11.8 kt1998: 20 kt1999: 20.3 kt2000: 20.4 kt2001: 24.3 kt2002: 16.8 kt2003: 30.3 kt2004: 56.4 kt2005: 22.1 kt2006: 44.8 kt2007: 39.9 kt2008: 18.7 kt2009: 38 kt2010: 55.6 kt2011: 19.5 kt2012: 24 kt2013: 40.3 kt2014: 36.7 kt2015: 56.9 kt2016: 44.7 kt2017: 20.6 kt2018: 52.7 kt2019: 29 kt2020: 58.8 kt2021: 25.8 kt2022: 25.9 kt2023: 37.2 kt2024: 43.3 kt

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

Analysis

In 2024, fires in organic soils — emissions in Myanmar stood at 43.34 kt.

That represents a change of up 16.4% on the previous year and up 18.2% over ten years.

Over the whole period, fires in organic soils — emissions in Myanmar peaked at 58.79 kt in 2020 and was at its lowest, 11.76 kt, in 1997.

That places Myanmar 3rd out of 218 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 35 years of available data.

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

Year kt Change
1990 32.79 kt —
1991 32.79 kt +0.0%
1992 32.79 kt +0.0%
1993 32.79 kt +0.0%
1994 32.79 kt +0.0%
1995 32.79 kt +0.0%
1996 16.05 kt -51.0%
1997 11.76 kt -26.7%
1998 20.05 kt +70.5%
1999 20.31 kt +1.3%
2000 20.39 kt +0.4%
2001 24.28 kt +19.1%
2002 16.78 kt -30.9%
2003 30.34 kt +80.8%
2004 56.43 kt +86.0%
2005 22.15 kt -60.7%
2006 44.79 kt +102.2%
2007 39.88 kt -11.0%
2008 18.67 kt -53.2%
2009 37.97 kt +103.4%
2010 55.63 kt +46.5%
2011 19.5 kt -64.9%
2012 23.99 kt +23.0%
2013 40.28 kt +67.9%
2014 36.67 kt -9.0%
2015 56.89 kt +55.1%
2016 44.73 kt -21.4%
2017 20.58 kt -54.0%
2018 52.69 kt +156.0%
2019 29.02 kt -44.9%
2020 58.79 kt +102.5%
2021 25.79 kt -56.1%
2022 25.92 kt +0.5%
2023 37.23 kt +43.6%
2024 43.34 kt +16.4%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 26.49 kt 11.76 kt 32.79 kt 10
2000s 31.17 kt 16.78 kt 56.43 kt 10
2010s 38 kt 19.5 kt 56.89 kt 10
2020s 38.21 kt 25.79 kt 58.79 kt 5

Countries ranked near Myanmar

  1. 1 Indonesia 205.22 kt compare
  2. 2 Malaysia 61.14 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 Myanmar?
Fires in organic soils — emissions in Myanmar was 43.34 kt in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest fires in organic soils — emissions recorded in Myanmar?
The highest recorded value was 58.79 kt in 2020.
What is the lowest fires in organic soils — emissions recorded in Myanmar?
The lowest recorded value was 11.76 kt in 1997.
How does Myanmar rank for fires in organic soils — emissions?
Myanmar ranks 3rd out of 218 countries with data for 2024.
Is fires in organic soils — emissions rising or falling in Myanmar?
Over the last ten years it is up 18.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Myanmar 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
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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.