Food Processing — Emissions (N2O) by country

Countries reporting

103

Highest

2.48 kt

OECD

Lowest

0 kt

Mali

Median

0.0054 kt

Years covered

1990–2023

Data points

3,693

What the numbers show

Food Processing — Emissions (N2O) is currently reported for 103 countries. The highest value is 2.48 kt in OECD; the lowest is 0 kt in Mali.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0054 kt, and the mean is 0.0743 kt.

Over the past decade 53 countries rose and 49 fell. The largest increase was in Brazil (up 162,223.0%), and the largest decrease in Mali (down 100.0%).

Food Processing — Emissions: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	OECD	2.48 kt	2023	down 5.0%	flat
2	China	0.7641 kt	2023	down 44.8%	volatile
3	China, mainland	0.7229 kt	2023	down 46.1%	falling
4	Brazil	0.4724 kt	2023	up 162,223.0%	volatile
5	Thailand	0.4569 kt	2023	up 85.3%	volatile
6	Australia and New Zealand	0.3155 kt	2023	up 34.2%	rising
7	Australia	0.2929 kt	2023	up 35.9%	rising
8	Russian Federation	0.2382 kt	2023	up 31.9%	falling
9	Japan	0.1831 kt	2023	down 14.8%	rising
10	Poland	0.1643 kt	2023	up 4.0%	falling
11	Germany	0.1567 kt	2023	down 21.7%	falling
12	Philippines	0.1424 kt	2023	up 126.0%	volatile
13	Türkiye	0.1401 kt	2023	up 91.2%	rising
14	Republic of Korea	0.1275 kt	2023	up 50.6%	rising
15	Colombia	0.0919 kt	2023	up 102.9%	volatile
16	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	0.0689 kt	2023	down 29.5%	falling
17	France	0.0596 kt	2023	down 14.2%	rising
18	Italy	0.0571 kt	2023	down 20.8%	flat
19	Ukraine	0.042 kt	2023	up 88.4%	volatile
20	China, Taiwan Province of	0.0412 kt	2023	down 8.2%	rising
21	Spain	0.0375 kt	2023	down 28.5%	falling
22	Serbia	0.0374 kt	2023	down 4.4%	rising
23	Zimbabwe	0.0355 kt	2023	up 461.5%	volatile
24	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	0.0334 kt	2023	down 26.7%	falling
25	Canada	0.0317 kt	2023	up 15.1%	rising
26	Belgium	0.0316 kt	2023	down 9.7%	rising
27	Morocco	0.0287 kt	2023	up 1,342.8%	volatile
28	Kazakhstan	0.0282 kt	2023	up 19.5%	volatile
29	Hungary	0.028 kt	2023	up 26.2%	rising
30	New Zealand	0.0226 kt	2023	up 15.5%	volatile
31	Caribbean	0.0215 kt	2023	up 66.6%	volatile
32	Czechia	0.0204 kt	2023	up 8.6%	falling
33	Dominican Republic	0.0197 kt	2023	up 75.5%	rising
34	Malawi	0.0189 kt	2023	up 71.6%	rising
35	Romania	0.0185 kt	2023	down 3.0%	falling
36	Mexico	0.017 kt	2023	up 6.5%	falling
37	Bulgaria	0.0159 kt	2023	up 30.2%	rising
38	Greece	0.0131 kt	2023	down 39.7%	falling
39	Portugal	0.0115 kt	2023	down 15.5%	falling
40	Norway	0.0111 kt	2023	down 26.9%	falling
41	Denmark	0.0103 kt	2023	down 44.5%	falling
42	Finland	0.01 kt	2023	down 22.4%	falling
43	Israel	0.0082 kt	2023	down 44.1%	falling
44	Sweden	0.0073 kt	2023	up 27.8%	falling
45	Argentina	0.0068 kt	2012	up 6.3%	rising
46	Ireland	0.0064 kt	2023	down 49.8%	falling
47	Austria	0.0062 kt	2023	down 27.4%	falling
48	Costa Rica	0.0061 kt	2023	up 44.7%	volatile
49	Switzerland	0.0059 kt	2023	down 12.9%	rising
50	Uzbekistan	0.0059 kt	2023	up 117,240.0%	volatile
51	Chile	0.0059 kt	2023	up 21,614.8%	volatile
52	Algeria	0.0054 kt	2023	up 53.4%	rising
53	Sudan (former)	0.0047 kt	2011	—	rising
54	Belarus	0.0043 kt	2023	down 23.1%	falling
55	Estonia	0.0041 kt	2023	down 25.0%	falling
56	Eswatini	0.0039 kt	2023	up 119.4%	volatile
57	Croatia	0.0038 kt	2023	down 5.9%	falling
58	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.0037 kt	2023	up 38.8%	rising
59	Lithuania	0.0037 kt	2023	up 63.8%	rising
60	Senegal	0.0031 kt	2023	up 189.0%	volatile
61	Slovakia	0.0027 kt	2023	up 23.8%	volatile
62	North Macedonia	0.0024 kt	2023	down 12.2%	volatile
63	Montenegro	0.0023 kt	2023	up 883.8%	rising
64	Côte d'Ivoire	0.0023 kt	2023	down 21.4%	rising
65	Botswana	0.0021 kt	2023	up 3,318.0%	volatile
66	Iceland	0.0019 kt	2023	down 31.1%	falling
67	Azerbaijan	0.0018 kt	2023	down 19.8%	rising
68	Slovenia	0.0017 kt	2023	down 18.3%	falling
69	Indonesia	0.0016 kt	2016	down 91.5%	falling
70	Myanmar	0.0015 kt	2023	down 40.5%	falling
71	Latvia	0.0015 kt	2023	down 33.4%	falling
72	Cyprus	0.0015 kt	2023	up 20.7%	rising
73	Kyrgyzstan	0.0012 kt	2023	up 677.1%	rising
74	Uruguay	0.0011 kt	2023	up 3,831.0%	volatile
75	Tunisia	0.0011 kt	2023	up 2.3%	rising
76	Jamaica	0.001 kt	2023	up 482.1%	volatile
77	Luxembourg	0.001 kt	2023	up 82.9%	rising
78	Ghana	0.0009 kt	2023	up 317.1%	volatile
79	Albania	0.0009 kt	2023	up 98.2%	volatile
80	Republic of Moldova	0.0008 kt	2023	down 25.3%	volatile
81	Georgia	0.0008 kt	2023	down 6.0%	rising
82	Cuba	0.0008 kt	2023	down 48.3%	falling
83	Tajikistan	0.0007 kt	2023	up 2,346.4%	volatile
84	Gabon	0.0007 kt	2023	up 122.7%	volatile
85	Burkina Faso	0.0006 kt	2023	up 3,433.3%	volatile
86	Polynesia	0.0006 kt	2023	down 3.9%	falling
87	Kenya	0.0005 kt	2023	down 54.9%	falling
88	Armenia	0.0005 kt	2023	down 19.4%	volatile
89	Congo	0.0004 kt	2023	down 24.1%	falling
90	Cameroon	0.0004 kt	2023	up 1.6%	falling
91	Lesotho	0.0003 kt	2023	down 29.6%	falling
92	Benin	0.0002 kt	2023	up 10.4%	rising
93	Mozambique	0.0002 kt	2023	up 884.2%	volatile
94	Greenland	0.0002 kt	2023	up 6.9%	falling
95	Viet Nam	0.0002 kt	2023	down 60.3%	volatile
96	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.0001 kt	2023	up 154.7%	rising
97	Togo	0.0001 kt	2023	down 55.6%	volatile
98	Malta	0.0001 kt	2023	down 66.4%	volatile
99	India	0.0001 kt	2023	down 100.0%	volatile
100	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.0001 kt	1995	up 329.4%	rising
101	Kuwait	0 kt	2023	down 81.7%	falling
102	Seychelles	0 kt	2023	down 76.9%	volatile
103	Mali	0 kt	2012	down 100.0%	volatile

Regions and income groups

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

World 4.97 kt
Annex I countries 2.65 kt
Non-Annex I countries 2.32 kt
Asia 1.86 kt
Americas 1.55 kt
Europe 1.13 kt
Eastern Asia 1.07 kt
Northern America 0.9316 kt
United States of America 0.8997 kt
European Union (27) 0.7077 kt
Latin America and the Caribbean 0.6159 kt
South-eastern Asia 0.6009 kt

About this data

Indicator: Food Processing — Emissions (N2O)
Unit: kt
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 139 places, 3,693 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed: 13 August 2026

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions from Pre- and post- agricultural production includes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and related activity data, generated from pre- and post-agriculture production stages of the agri-food 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). The domain includes methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) and CO2 equivalent (CO2eq) emissions from the above activities as well as the aggregate fluorinated gases (F-gases) emissions. Estimates are available by country, with global coverage and are updated annually.The FAOSTAT domain disseminates information estimates of CH4, N2O, CO2 emissions, F-gases, their aggregates in CO2eq in units of kilotonnes (kt, or 10^6 kg), and the underlying activity data. CO2eq emissions are computed by using the IPCC Fifth Assessment report global warming potentials, AR5 (IPCC, 2014). Data are available for most countries and territories, for standard FAOSTAT regional aggregations, and for Annex I and non-Annex I country groups.