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Food Retail — Emissions (CO2) by country

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions Totals summarizes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disseminated in the FAOSTAT Climate Change domains of emissions from agrifood systems. Data are computed following the Tier 1 methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National greenhouse gas...

Countries reporting
190
Highest
142,421 kt
OECD
Lowest
0.0012 kt
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Median
201.91 kt
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
7,490

What the numbers show

Food Retail — Emissions (CO2) is currently reported for 190 countries. The highest value is 142,421 kt in OECD; the lowest is 0.0012 kt in St. Pierre and Miquelon.

The median across all reporting countries is 201.91 kt, and the mean is 1,912 kt.

Over the past decade 118 countries rose and 69 fell. The largest increase was in Tajikistan (up 19,858.8%), and the largest decrease in South Sudan (down 68.2%).

Food Retail — Emissions: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 OECD 142,421 kt 2023 down 16.5% rising
2 Japan 24,798 kt 2023 down 18.8% rising
3 Russian Federation 14,330 kt 2023 down 10.5% rising
4 Republic of Korea 12,630 kt 2023 up 3.1% rising
5 India 12,518 kt 2023 down 3.8% volatile
6 Germany 9,187 kt 2023 down 37.1% falling
7 Saudi Arabia 8,503 kt 2023 up 42.3% rising
8 Indonesia 7,372 kt 2023 up 93.8% volatile
9 South Africa 5,826 kt 2023 down 1.4% rising
10 Poland 4,893 kt 2023 down 13.5% rising
11 Italy 4,823 kt 2023 down 15.3% rising
12 Thailand 4,428 kt 2023 up 14.3% volatile
13 China (People’s Republic of) 4,400 kt 2023 up 14.1% rising
14 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4,262 kt 2023 down 44.0% falling
15 Australia and New Zealand 4,142 kt 2023 down 7.6% rising
16 Australia 3,939 kt 2023 down 8.1% rising
17 Malaysia 3,867 kt 2023 up 5.4% volatile
18 Egypt 3,824 kt 2023 up 117.2% volatile
19 Brazil 3,682 kt 2023 up 11.5% volatile
20 Canada 3,431 kt 2023 up 9.5% rising
21 Kazakhstan 3,381 kt 2023 up 60.5% volatile
22 Turkmenistan 3,198 kt 2023 up 74.7% rising
23 France 3,149 kt 2023 down 27.0% falling
24 United Arab Emirates 3,006 kt 2023 up 43.4% rising
25 Philippines 2,917 kt 2023 up 59.8% volatile
26 Uganda 2,807 kt 2023 up 305.7% volatile
27 Oman 2,726 kt 2023 up 465.7% volatile
28 Argentina 2,623 kt 2023 down 13.8% volatile
29 Spain 2,537 kt 2023 down 16.0% rising
30 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 2,361 kt 2023 down 22.5% rising
31 China, Taiwan Province of 2,332 kt 2023 up 36.6% rising
32 Nigeria 2,306 kt 2023 up 20.9% rising
33 China, Hong Kong SAR 2,001 kt 2023 down 4.0% rising
34 Mexico 1,916 kt 2023 down 36.4% rising
35 Ukraine 1,843 kt 2023 down 26.8% rising
36 Chile 1,492 kt 2023 up 14.9% volatile
37 Uzbekistan 1,291 kt 2023 up 36.3% rising
38 Myanmar 1,254 kt 2023 up 27.5% rising
39 Morocco 1,198 kt 2023 up 50.2% volatile
39 Anguilla, United Kingdom-British Overseas Territory 6.65 kt 2023 down 7.0% rising
40 Pakistan 1,182 kt 2023 up 57.1% volatile
41 Czechia 1,180 kt 2023 down 12.4% falling
41 Niue 0.1473 kt 2023 up 4.4% falling
42 Israel 1,146 kt 2023 down 12.3% rising
43 Madagascar 1,136 kt 2023 up 102.5% volatile
44 Kuwait 1,100 kt 2023 up 16.2% rising
45 Singapore 1,072 kt 2023 up 20.9% volatile
46 Belgium 1,030 kt 2023 down 25.8% falling
47 Greece 1,018 kt 2023 down 23.1% rising
48 Puerto Rico 990.23 kt 2023 down 14.7% rising
49 Colombia 863.01 kt 2023 up 31.2% rising
50 Cameroon 838.39 kt 2023 up 58.3% rising
51 Sudan (former) 700.01 kt 2011 up 256.5% volatile
52 Romania 680.63 kt 2023 up 9.1% rising
53 Ireland 654.22 kt 2023 down 2.7% rising
54 Serbia 650.12 kt 2023 up 9.9% rising
55 Bangladesh 632.07 kt 2023 up 125.9% volatile
56 Peru 631.53 kt 2023 down 23.1% volatile
57 Dominican Republic 615.17 kt 2023 up 78.7% rising
58 Mongolia 593.72 kt 2023 up 64.2% volatile
59 Belarus 586.95 kt 2023 down 24.2% falling
60 Switzerland 565.62 kt 2023 down 25.0% falling
61 Bulgaria 557.92 kt 2023 up 8.0% volatile
62 Portugal 541.32 kt 2023 down 11.8% rising
63 Panama 534.41 kt 2023 up 99.1% volatile
64 Sudan 527.32 kt 2023 up 139.5% rising
65 Hungary 522.37 kt 2023 down 25.3% falling
66 Guatemala 502.94 kt 2023 up 90.7% rising
67 Burkina Faso 502.02 kt 2023 up 279.8% volatile
68 Qatar 490.01 kt 2023 up 74.3% volatile
69 Bahrain 472.39 kt 2023 up 7.9% volatile
70 Nepal 458.77 kt 2023 up 78.7% volatile
71 Azerbaijan 441.47 kt 2023 up 37.1% rising
72 Tunisia 416.7 kt 2023 up 13.4% rising
73 Algeria 410.05 kt 2023 — volatile
74 Austria 404.98 kt 2023 down 18.1% falling
75 Finland 389.95 kt 2023 down 35.0% rising
76 Sri Lanka 361.84 kt 2023 up 156.4% volatile
77 Ecuador 335.53 kt 2023 down 33.8% rising
78 Zimbabwe 329.36 kt 2023 up 132.8% rising
79 Niger 311.18 kt 2023 up 38.7% rising
80 Slovak Republic 302.96 kt 2023 down 44.9% falling
81 Estonia 298.05 kt 2023 down 23.0% rising
82 Bosnia and Herzegovina 297.63 kt 2023 up 47.5% volatile
83 Cambodia 284.37 kt 2023 up 201.8% volatile
84 Benin 278.98 kt 2023 up 26.7% rising
85 Jamaica 276.86 kt 2023 up 99.4% volatile
86 Iraq 269.7 kt 2023 down 5.4% rising
87 Botswana 255.29 kt 2023 down 43.6% volatile
88 Denmark 251.75 kt 2023 down 57.9% falling
89 Honduras 245.64 kt 2023 up 6.8% volatile
90 Ethiopia 242.41 kt 2023 up 32.2% volatile
91 Angola 239.08 kt 2023 down 51.7% volatile
92 Libya 230.9 kt 2023 down 51.8% volatile
93 Ghana 212.54 kt 2023 up 40.8% volatile
94 Jordan 206.84 kt 2023 down 6.6% volatile
95 New Zealand 202.82 kt 2023 up 1.3% rising
96 Lebanon 201 kt 2023 up 2.2% rising
97 Croatia 196.42 kt 2023 down 2.7% rising
98 Mali 195.13 kt 2023 up 67.5% rising
99 Nicaragua 192.89 kt 2023 up 18.4% volatile
100 Sweden 187.55 kt 2023 down 4.4% falling
101 Gabon 183.11 kt 2023 up 410.0% volatile
102 Cyprus 174.15 kt 2023 up 21.8% rising
103 Kenya 167.61 kt 2023 up 324.1% volatile
104 Senegal 160.28 kt 2023 up 131.2% volatile
105 Norway 155.82 kt 2023 up 4.8% rising
106 Brunei Darussalam 145.19 kt 2023 up 19.9% volatile
107 Namibia 144.2 kt 2023 up 611.4% volatile
108 Togo 140.57 kt 2023 up 27.9% rising
109 Bahamas 134.97 kt 2023 up 17.4% volatile
110 Latvia 134.88 kt 2023 down 10.2% falling
111 Slovenia 119.83 kt 2023 down 32.2% falling
112 Palestine 117.09 kt 2023 up 23.4% volatile
113 Kyrgyzstan 112.58 kt 2023 up 362.2% volatile
114 Georgia 110.11 kt 2023 up 69.7% rising
115 Mauritius 109.11 kt 2023 up 12.5% volatile
116 Trinidad and Tobago 105.46 kt 2023 down 15.8% rising
117 Cuba 94.5 kt 2023 up 27.3% volatile
118 North Macedonia 92.21 kt 2023 down 26.4% rising
119 Luxembourg 90.9 kt 2023 down 30.5% falling
120 Congo 87.27 kt 2023 up 725.4% volatile
121 El Salvador 84.72 kt 2023 down 28.5% rising
122 Lithuania 81.61 kt 2023 down 51.3% falling
123 Papua New Guinea 69.91 kt 2023 up 87.6% volatile
124 Barbados 65.5 kt 2023 up 17.4% volatile
125 China, mainland 63.29 kt 2023 up 0.3% volatile
126 Montenegro 60.58 kt 2023 up 781.2% volatile
127 Mauritania 59.45 kt 2023 up 123.1% volatile
128 Afghanistan 57.66 kt 2023 up 219.9% volatile
129 Aruba 57.01 kt 2023 down 10.6% flat
130 Mozambique 56.5 kt 2023 up 480.1% volatile
131 Malawi 54.46 kt 2023 up 67.3% volatile
132 Malta 52.34 kt 2023 down 35.1% rising
133 Yemen 51.98 kt 2023 down 56.7% volatile
134 Guinea 50.37 kt 2023 up 603.2% volatile
135 Haiti 47.17 kt 2023 down 1.0% rising
136 Fiji 42.08 kt 2023 up 18.8% rising
137 Costa Rica 40.21 kt 2023 down 54.4% volatile
138 Zambia 34.03 kt 2023 up 88.7% volatile
139 Central African Republic 32.76 kt 2023 up 991.0% volatile
140 Guyana 32.29 kt 2023 up 8.7% volatile
141 Tajikistan 31.71 kt 2023 up 19,858.8% volatile
142 Armenia 30.88 kt 2023 down 43.1% volatile
143 Uruguay 30.05 kt 2023 down 66.1% volatile
144 Saint Lucia 29.04 kt 2023 up 5.5% rising
145 Maldives 27.95 kt 2023 up 381.7% volatile
146 Eritrea 27.72 kt 2023 up 24.5% rising
147 Albania 27.58 kt 2023 up 3.4% volatile
148 Rwanda 26.05 kt 2023 up 272.3% rising
149 Suriname 24.94 kt 2023 down 46.0% volatile
150 Belize 23.25 kt 2023 up 147.3% volatile
151 Antigua and Barbuda 23.05 kt 2023 up 31.1% rising
152 Lesotho 18.52 kt 2023 down 54.5% rising
153 Eswatini 18.48 kt 2023 up 18.7% volatile
154 Equatorial Guinea 18.33 kt 2023 up 4.3% volatile
155 Bhutan 18.21 kt 2023 up 532.0% volatile
156 Djibouti 17.72 kt 2023 up 51.8% rising
157 Grenada 15.72 kt 2023 up 14.6% rising
158 Saint Kitts and Nevis 13.16 kt 2023 up 1.5% rising
159 Seychelles 12.12 kt 2023 up 92.4% volatile
160 Samoa 10.52 kt 2023 up 59.0% rising
161 South Sudan 8.2 kt 2023 down 68.2% volatile
162 Dominica 8.04 kt 2023 down 9.5% volatile
163 Sierra Leone 7.53 kt 2023 up 185.6% volatile
164 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 7.48 kt 2023 down 5.5% rising
165 Paraguay 5.07 kt 2023 up 35.0% rising
166 Greenland 4.57 kt 2023 up 17.1% rising
167 Palau 4 kt 2023 down 10.2% falling
168 American Samoa 3.78 kt 2023 down 47.3% falling
169 Chad 3.76 kt 2023 up 34.9% volatile
170 Faroe Islands 3.62 kt 2023 down 23.3% flat
171 Sao Tome and Principe 3.1 kt 2023 up 82.2% volatile
172 Gibraltar 3.06 kt 2023 up 310.3% volatile
173 China, Macao SAR 2.92 kt 2023 up 479.5% falling
174 Marshall Islands 2.27 kt 2023 down 14.2% falling
175 Guinea-Bissau 2.27 kt 2023 up 860.1% volatile
176 New Caledonia 2.15 kt 2023 up 0.6% falling
177 Tonga 2.12 kt 2023 up 36.3% rising
178 Comoros 2.04 kt 2023 up 120.0% rising
179 Burundi 1.81 kt 2023 up 34.7% rising
180 Solomon Islands 1.64 kt 2023 down 31.7% volatile
180 Vanuatu 1.64 kt 2023 down 17.4% rising
182 Nauru 1.33 kt 2023 up 95.2% rising
183 Liberia 0.8922 kt 2023 up 100.0% rising
184 Kiribati 0.7381 kt 2023 up 21.6% rising
185 Tuvalu 0.4195 kt 2023 up 40.3% rising
186 Iceland 0.3216 kt 2023 down 22.8% volatile
187 Gambia 0.088 kt 1994 — falling
188 St. Pierre and Miquelon 0.0012 kt 2023 — falling

Regions and income groups

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

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Indicator
Food Retail — Emissions (CO2)
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
242 places, 7,490 data points, 1990–2023
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The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions Totals summarizes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disseminated in the FAOSTAT Climate Change domains of emissions from agrifood 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). Emissions from other economic sectors as defined by the IPCC are also disseminated in the domain for completeness. Methodological details can be found at: https://files-faostat.fao.org/production/GT/GT_en.pdf