Fires in organic soils — Emissions in Malaysia
Malaysia: Fires in organic soils — Emissions was 4,959 kt in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Latest (2024)
4,959 kt
Change on year
up 286.1%
World rank
2nd
of 218 countries
All-time high
24,479 kt
in 1998
All-time low
138.59 kt
in 2001
Years of data
35
1990–2024
Fires in organic soils — Emissions in Malaysia, 1990–2024
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 4,959 kt, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 286.1% on the previous year and down 72.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, fires in organic soils — emissions in Malaysia peaked at 24,479 kt in 1998 and was at its lowest, 138.59 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 | 6,408 kt | — |
| 1991 | 6,408 kt | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 6,408 kt | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 6,408 kt | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 6,408 kt | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 6,408 kt | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 4,365 kt | -31.9% |
| 1997 | 5,659 kt | +29.6% |
| 1998 | 24,479 kt | +332.6% |
| 1999 | 3,812 kt | -84.4% |
| 2000 | 3,786 kt | -0.7% |
| 2001 | 138.59 kt | -96.3% |
| 2002 | 5,762 kt | +4057.4% |
| 2003 | 4,855 kt | -15.7% |
| 2004 | 10,952 kt | +125.6% |
| 2005 | 12,890 kt | +17.7% |
| 2006 | 3,587 kt | -72.2% |
| 2007 | 7,497 kt | +109.0% |
| 2008 | 3,170 kt | -57.7% |
| 2009 | 15,496 kt | +388.9% |
| 2010 | 8,773 kt | -43.4% |
| 2011 | 7,488 kt | -14.7% |
| 2012 | 3,688 kt | -50.7% |
| 2013 | 5,571 kt | +51.0% |
| 2014 | 18,263 kt | +227.8% |
| 2015 | 5,625 kt | -69.2% |
| 2016 | 7,331 kt | +30.3% |
| 2017 | 205.32 kt | -97.2% |
| 2018 | 4,935 kt | +2303.7% |
| 2019 | 6,454 kt | +30.8% |
| 2020 | 1,679 kt | -74.0% |
| 2021 | 2,187 kt | +30.3% |
| 2022 | 944.47 kt | -56.8% |
| 2023 | 1,285 kt | +36.0% |
| 2024 | 4,959 kt | +286.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 7,676 kt | 3,812 kt | 24,479 kt | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,813 kt | 138.59 kt | 15,496 kt | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,833 kt | 205.32 kt | 18,263 kt | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,211 kt | 944.47 kt | 4,959 kt | 5 |
Countries ranked near Malaysia
- 1 Indonesia 16,651 kt compare
- 3 Myanmar 3,511 kt compare
- 4 Thailand 30.8 kt compare
- 5 Afghanistan 0 kt
- 5 Albania 0 kt
- 5 Algeria 0 kt
- 5 American Samoa 0 kt
- 5 Andorra 0 kt
- 5 Angola 0 kt
- 5 Anguilla 0 kt
- 5 Antigua and Barbuda 0 kt
- 5 Argentina 0 kt
- 5 Armenia 0 kt
- 5 Aruba 0 kt
- 5 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0 kt
- 5 Australia 0 kt
- 5 Austria 0 kt
- 5 Azerbaijan 0 kt
- 5 Bahamas 0 kt
- 5 Bahrain 0 kt
- 5 Bangladesh 0 kt
- 5 Barbados 0 kt
- 5 Belarus 0 kt
- 5 Belgium 0 kt
- 5 Belgium-Luxembourg 0 kt
- 5 Belize 0 kt
- 5 Benin 0 kt
- 5 Bermuda 0 kt
- 5 Bhutan 0 kt
- 5 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 kt
- 5 Botswana 0 kt
- 5 Brazil 0 kt
- 5 British Virgin Islands 0 kt
- 5 Brunei Darussalam 0 kt compare
- 5 Bulgaria 0 kt
- 5 Burkina Faso 0 kt
- 5 Burundi 0 kt
- 5 Cambodia 0 kt
- 5 Cameroon 0 kt
- 5 Canada 0 kt
- 5 Cayman Islands 0 kt
- 5 Central African Republic 0 kt
- 5 Chad 0 kt
- 5 Chile 0 kt
- 5 China 0 kt
- 5 China, Hong Kong SAR 0 kt
- 5 China, Macao SAR 0 kt
- 5 China, mainland 0 kt
- 5 China, Taiwan Province of 0 kt
- 5 Colombia 0 kt
- 5 Comoros 0 kt
- 5 Congo 0 kt
- 5 Cook Islands 0 kt
- 5 Costa Rica 0 kt
- 5 Croatia 0 kt
- 5 Cuba 0 kt
- 5 Cyprus 0 kt
- 5 Czechia 0 kt
- 5 Denmark 0 kt
- 5 Djibouti 0 kt
- 5 Dominica 0 kt
- 5 Dominican Republic 0 kt
- 5 Ecuador 0 kt
- 5 Egypt 0 kt
- 5 El Salvador 0 kt
- 5 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt
- 5 Eritrea 0 kt
- 5 Estonia 0 kt
- 5 Eswatini 0 kt
- 5 Ethiopia 0 kt
- 5 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0 kt
- 5 Faroe Islands 0 kt
- 5 Fiji 0 kt
- 5 Finland 0 kt
- 5 France 0 kt
- 5 French Guiana 0 kt
- 5 French Polynesia 0 kt
- 5 Gabon 0 kt
- 5 Gambia 0 kt
- 5 Georgia 0 kt
- 5 Germany 0 kt
- 5 Ghana 0 kt
- 5 Gibraltar 0 kt
- 5 Greece 0 kt
- 5 Greenland 0 kt
- 5 Grenada 0 kt
- 5 Guadeloupe 0 kt
- 5 Guam 0 kt
- 5 Guatemala 0 kt
- 5 Guinea 0 kt
- 5 Guinea-Bissau 0 kt
- 5 Guyana 0 kt
- 5 Haiti 0 kt
- 5 Honduras 0 kt
- 5 Hungary 0 kt
- 5 Iceland 0 kt
- 5 India 0 kt
- 5 Iraq 0 kt
- 5 Ireland 0 kt
- 5 Isle of Man 0 kt
- 5 Israel 0 kt
- 5 Italy 0 kt
- 5 Jamaica 0 kt
- 5 Japan 0 kt
- 5 Jordan 0 kt
- 5 Kazakhstan 0 kt
- 5 Kenya 0 kt
- 5 Kiribati 0 kt
- 5 Kuwait 0 kt
- 5 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt
- 5 Latvia 0 kt
- 5 Lebanon 0 kt
- 5 Lesotho 0 kt
- 5 Liberia 0 kt
- 5 Libya 0 kt
- 5 Lithuania 0 kt
- 5 Luxembourg 0 kt
- 5 Madagascar 0 kt
- 5 Malawi 0 kt
- 5 Maldives 0 kt
- 5 Mali 0 kt
- 5 Malta 0 kt
- 5 Marshall Islands 0 kt
- 5 Martinique 0 kt
- 5 Mauritania 0 kt
- 5 Mauritius 0 kt
- 5 Mayotte 0 kt
- 5 Mexico 0 kt
- 5 Mongolia 0 kt
- 5 Montenegro 0 kt
- 5 Montserrat 0 kt
- 5 Morocco 0 kt
- 5 Mozambique 0 kt
- 5 Namibia 0 kt
- 5 Naoero 0 kt
- 5 Nepal 0 kt
- 5 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0 kt
- 5 Netherlands Antilles (former) 0 kt
- 5 New Caledonia 0 kt
- 5 New Zealand 0 kt
- 5 Nicaragua 0 kt
- 5 Niger 0 kt
- 5 Nigeria 0 kt
- 5 Niue 0 kt
- 5 Norfolk Island 0 kt
- 5 North Macedonia 0 kt
- 5 Northern Mariana Islands 0 kt
- 5 Norway 0 kt
- 5 Oman 0 kt
- 5 Pakistan 0 kt
- 5 Palau 0 kt
- 5 Palestine, State of 0 kt
- 5 Panama 0 kt
- 5 Papua New Guinea 0 kt
- 5 Paraguay 0 kt
- 5 Peru 0 kt
- 5 Philippines 0 kt
- 5 Pitcairn 0 kt
- 5 Poland 0 kt
- 5 Portugal 0 kt
- 5 Puerto Rico 0 kt
- 5 Qatar 0 kt
- 5 Republic of Korea 0 kt
- 5 Réunion 0 kt
- 5 Romania 0 kt
- 5 Russian Federation 0 kt
- 5 Rwanda 0 kt
- 5 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kt
- 5 Saint Lucia 0 kt
- 5 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 kt
- 5 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kt
- 5 Samoa 0 kt
- 5 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt
- 5 Saudi Arabia 0 kt
- 5 Senegal 0 kt
- 5 Serbia 0 kt
- 5 Serbia and Montenegro 0 kt
- 5 Seychelles 0 kt
- 5 Sierra Leone 0 kt
- 5 Singapore 0 kt
- 5 Slovakia 0 kt
- 5 Slovenia 0 kt
- 5 Solomon Islands 0 kt
- 5 Somalia 0 kt
- 5 South Africa 0 kt
- 5 South Sudan 0 kt
- 5 Spain 0 kt
- 5 Sri Lanka 0 kt
- 5 Sudan 0 kt
- 5 Sudan (former) 0 kt
- 5 Suriname 0 kt
- 5 Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands 0 kt
- 5 Sweden 0 kt
- 5 Switzerland 0 kt
- 5 Tajikistan 0 kt
- 5 Togo 0 kt
- 5 Tokelau 0 kt
- 5 Tonga 0 kt
- 5 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kt
- 5 Tunisia 0 kt
- 5 Turkmenistan 0 kt
- 5 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 kt
- 5 Tuvalu 0 kt
- 5 Uganda 0 kt
- 5 Ukraine 0 kt
- 5 United Arab Emirates 0 kt
- 5 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0 kt
- 5 United States Virgin Islands 0 kt
- 5 Uruguay 0 kt
- 5 Uzbekistan 0 kt
- 5 Vanuatu 0 kt
- 5 Western Sahara 0 kt
- 5 Yemen 0 kt
- 5 Zambia 0 kt
- 5 Zimbabwe 0 kt
- 5 Australia and New Zealand 0 kt
- 5 OECD 0 kt
More climate change data for Malaysia
- Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) 4,551 kt (2050)
- Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O 1,936 kt (2050)
- Emissions from livestock — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 2,616 kt (2050)
- Emissions from livestock — Emissions 7.31 kt (2050)
- Emissions from livestock — Emissions 93.41 kt (2050)
- Emissions from crops — Emissions (CO2eq) 7,214 kt (2050)
- Emissions from crops — Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O 3,641 kt (2050)
- Emissions from crops — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 3,573 kt (2050)
- Emissions from crops — Emissions 13.74 kt (2050)
- Emissions from crops — Emissions 127.6 kt (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is fires in organic soils — emissions in Malaysia?
- Fires in organic soils — emissions in Malaysia was 4,959 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 24,479 kt in 1998.
- What is the lowest fires in organic soils — emissions recorded in Malaysia?
- The lowest recorded value was 138.59 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 (CO2). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.