Food Processing — Emissions (N2O) by country
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...
What the numbers show
Food Processing — Emissions (N2O) is currently reported for 105 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 0.073 kt.
Over the past decade 54 countries rose and 50 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 |
| 2 | Türkiye | 0.1401 kt | 2023 | up 91.2% | rising |
| 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 |
| 6 | Republic of Moldova | 0.0008 kt | 2023 | down 25.3% | volatile |
| 7 | Australia | 0.2929 kt | 2023 | up 35.9% | rising |
| 7 | Polynesia | 0.0006 kt | 2023 | down 3.9% | falling |
| 8 | Russian Federation | 0.2382 kt | 2023 | up 31.9% | falling |
| 8 | Viet Nam | 0.0002 kt | 2023 | down 60.3% | volatile |
| 9 | Japan | 0.1831 kt | 2023 | down 14.8% | rising |
| 9 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0.0001 kt | 2023 | up 154.7% | 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 | Republic of Korea | 0.1275 kt | 2023 | up 50.6% | rising |
| 14 | Colombia | 0.0919 kt | 2023 | up 102.9% | volatile |
| 15 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 0.0689 kt | 2023 | down 29.5% | falling |
| 16 | France | 0.0596 kt | 2023 | down 14.2% | rising |
| 17 | Italy | 0.0571 kt | 2023 | down 20.8% | flat |
| 18 | Ukraine | 0.042 kt | 2023 | up 88.4% | volatile |
| 19 | China, Taiwan Province of | 0.0412 kt | 2023 | down 8.2% | rising |
| 20 | Spain | 0.0375 kt | 2023 | down 28.5% | falling |
| 21 | Serbia | 0.0374 kt | 2023 | down 4.4% | rising |
| 22 | Zimbabwe | 0.0355 kt | 2023 | up 461.5% | volatile |
| 23 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 0.0334 kt | 2023 | down 26.7% | falling |
| 24 | Canada | 0.0317 kt | 2023 | up 15.1% | rising |
| 25 | Belgium | 0.0316 kt | 2023 | down 9.7% | rising |
| 26 | Morocco | 0.0287 kt | 2023 | up 1,342.8% | volatile |
| 27 | Kazakhstan | 0.0282 kt | 2023 | up 19.5% | volatile |
| 28 | Hungary | 0.028 kt | 2023 | up 26.2% | rising |
| 28 | Caribbean | 0.0215 kt | 2023 | up 66.6% | volatile |
| 29 | New Zealand | 0.0226 kt | 2023 | up 15.5% | volatile |
| 30 | Czechia | 0.0204 kt | 2023 | up 8.6% | falling |
| 31 | Dominican Republic | 0.0197 kt | 2023 | up 75.5% | rising |
| 31 | Côte d'Ivoire | 0.0023 kt | 2023 | down 21.4% | rising |
| 32 | Malawi | 0.0189 kt | 2023 | up 71.6% | rising |
| 33 | Romania | 0.0185 kt | 2023 | down 3.0% | falling |
| 34 | Mexico | 0.017 kt | 2023 | up 6.5% | falling |
| 35 | Bulgaria | 0.0159 kt | 2023 | up 30.2% | rising |
| 36 | South Africa | 0.014 kt | 2023 | up 11.3% | volatile |
| 37 | Greece | 0.0131 kt | 2023 | down 39.7% | falling |
| 38 | Portugal | 0.0115 kt | 2023 | down 15.5% | falling |
| 39 | Norway | 0.0111 kt | 2023 | down 26.9% | falling |
| 40 | Denmark | 0.0103 kt | 2023 | down 44.5% | falling |
| 41 | Finland | 0.01 kt | 2023 | down 22.4% | falling |
| 42 | Israel | 0.0082 kt | 2023 | down 44.1% | falling |
| 43 | Sweden | 0.0073 kt | 2023 | up 27.8% | falling |
| 44 | Argentina | 0.0068 kt | 2012 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 45 | Ireland | 0.0064 kt | 2023 | down 49.8% | falling |
| 46 | Austria | 0.0062 kt | 2023 | down 27.4% | falling |
| 47 | Costa Rica | 0.0061 kt | 2023 | up 44.7% | volatile |
| 48 | Switzerland | 0.0059 kt | 2023 | down 12.9% | rising |
| 49 | Uzbekistan | 0.0059 kt | 2023 | up 117,240.0% | volatile |
| 50 | Chile | 0.0059 kt | 2023 | up 21,614.8% | volatile |
| 51 | Algeria | 0.0054 kt | 2023 | up 53.4% | rising |
| 52 | Sudan (former) | 0.0047 kt | 2011 | — | rising |
| 53 | Belarus | 0.0043 kt | 2023 | down 23.1% | falling |
| 54 | Estonia | 0.0041 kt | 2023 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 55 | Eswatini | 0.0039 kt | 2023 | up 119.4% | volatile |
| 56 | Croatia | 0.0038 kt | 2023 | down 5.9% | falling |
| 57 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.0037 kt | 2023 | up 38.8% | rising |
| 58 | Lithuania | 0.0037 kt | 2023 | up 63.8% | rising |
| 59 | Senegal | 0.0031 kt | 2023 | up 189.0% | volatile |
| 60 | Slovakia | 0.0027 kt | 2023 | up 23.8% | volatile |
| 61 | North Macedonia | 0.0024 kt | 2023 | down 12.2% | volatile |
| 62 | Montenegro | 0.0023 kt | 2023 | up 883.8% | rising |
| 63 | Botswana | 0.0021 kt | 2023 | up 3,318.0% | volatile |
| 64 | Iceland | 0.0019 kt | 2023 | down 31.1% | falling |
| 65 | Azerbaijan | 0.0018 kt | 2023 | down 19.8% | rising |
| 66 | Slovenia | 0.0017 kt | 2023 | down 18.3% | falling |
| 67 | Indonesia | 0.0016 kt | 2016 | down 91.5% | falling |
| 68 | Myanmar | 0.0015 kt | 2023 | down 40.5% | falling |
| 69 | Latvia | 0.0015 kt | 2023 | down 33.4% | falling |
| 70 | Cyprus | 0.0015 kt | 2023 | up 20.7% | rising |
| 71 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.0012 kt | 2023 | up 677.1% | rising |
| 72 | Uruguay | 0.0011 kt | 2023 | up 3,831.0% | volatile |
| 73 | Tunisia | 0.0011 kt | 2023 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 74 | Jamaica | 0.001 kt | 2023 | up 482.1% | volatile |
| 75 | Luxembourg | 0.001 kt | 2023 | up 82.9% | rising |
| 76 | Ghana | 0.0009 kt | 2023 | up 317.1% | volatile |
| 77 | Albania | 0.0009 kt | 2023 | up 98.2% | volatile |
| 78 | Georgia | 0.0008 kt | 2023 | down 6.0% | rising |
| 79 | Cuba | 0.0008 kt | 2023 | down 48.3% | falling |
| 80 | Tajikistan | 0.0007 kt | 2023 | up 2,346.4% | volatile |
| 81 | Gabon | 0.0007 kt | 2023 | up 122.7% | volatile |
| 82 | Burkina Faso | 0.0006 kt | 2023 | up 3,433.3% | volatile |
| 83 | American Samoa | 0.0006 kt | 2023 | down 3.9% | falling |
| 84 | Kenya | 0.0005 kt | 2023 | down 54.9% | falling |
| 85 | Armenia | 0.0005 kt | 2023 | down 19.4% | volatile |
| 86 | Congo | 0.0004 kt | 2023 | down 24.1% | falling |
| 87 | Cameroon | 0.0004 kt | 2023 | up 1.6% | falling |
| 88 | Lesotho | 0.0003 kt | 2023 | down 29.6% | falling |
| 89 | Benin | 0.0002 kt | 2023 | up 10.4% | rising |
| 90 | Mozambique | 0.0002 kt | 2023 | up 884.2% | volatile |
| 91 | Greenland | 0.0002 kt | 2023 | up 6.9% | falling |
| 92 | Togo | 0.0001 kt | 2023 | down 55.6% | volatile |
| 93 | Malta | 0.0001 kt | 2023 | down 66.4% | volatile |
| 94 | India | 0.0001 kt | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 95 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.0001 kt | 1995 | up 329.4% | rising |
| 96 | Kuwait | 0 kt | 2023 | down 81.7% | falling |
| 97 | Seychelles | 0 kt | 2023 | down 76.9% | volatile |
| 98 | 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
- Asia 1.86 kt
- Annex I countries 2.65 kt
- Non-Annex I countries 2.32 kt
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 0.0253 kt
- Americas 1.55 kt
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 0.0222 kt
- Europe 1.13 kt
- Middle Africa 0.0016 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
- South America 0.5713 kt
- Eastern Europe 0.5351 kt
- Oceania 0.3161 kt
- Western Europe 0.2943 kt
- Southern Europe 0.1715 kt
- Western Asia 0.153 kt
- Northern Europe 0.1251 kt
- Africa 0.1197 kt
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 0.1028 kt
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 0.0861 kt
- Sub-Saharan Africa 0.0845 kt
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 0.0718 kt
- Eastern Africa 0.0553 kt
- Central Asia 0.0359 kt
- Northern Africa 0.0352 kt
- Central America 0.0231 kt
- Southern Africa 0.0203 kt
- Western Africa 0.0073 kt
- Southern Asia 0.0001 kt
About this data
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.