Food Retail — Emissions (CO2), per square kilometre by country
Food Retail — Emissions (CO2) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Countries reporting
186
Highest
1.48 kt per square kilometre
Singapore
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Chad
Median
0.0025 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
5,719
What the numbers show
Food Retail — Emissions (CO2), per square kilometre is currently reported for 186 countries. The highest value is 1.48 kt per square kilometre in Singapore; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Chad.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0025 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0247 kt per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 116 countries rose and 68 fell. The largest increase was in Tajikistan (up 20,027.1%), and the largest decrease in South Sudan (down 68.2%).
Food Retail — Emissions (CO2), per square kilometre (Retail square): full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 1.48 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Bahrain | 0.5905 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 3 | Aruba | 0.3167 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.6% | flat |
| 4 | Gibraltar | 0.3063 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 310.3% | volatile |
| 5 | Malta | 0.1661 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 34.1% | rising |
| 6 | Barbados | 0.1523 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.4% | volatile |
| 7 | Puerto Rico | 0.1116 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.7% | rising |
| 8 | Maldives | 0.0938 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 384.9% | volatile |
| 9 | Japan | 0.068 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.8% | rising |
| 10 | Nauru | 0.0632 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 85.9% | rising |
| 11 | Kuwait | 0.0617 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.2% | rising |
| 12 | Mauritius | 0.0546 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.5% | volatile |
| 13 | Israel | 0.053 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.3% | rising |
| 14 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.0524 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.0% | rising |
| 15 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.0504 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 16 | Saint Lucia | 0.0476 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.5% | rising |
| 17 | Grenada | 0.0457 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.3% | rising |
| 18 | Qatar | 0.0426 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 76.1% | volatile |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates | 0.0423 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 43.4% | rising |
| 20 | Luxembourg | 0.0353 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 30.5% | falling |
| 21 | Belgium | 0.0338 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 26.2% | falling |
| 22 | Brunei | 0.0276 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.9% | volatile |
| 23 | Seychelles | 0.0265 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 93.7% | volatile |
| 24 | Germany | 0.0263 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 37.2% | falling |
| 25 | Jamaica | 0.0256 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 99.4% | volatile |
| 26 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.0206 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.8% | rising |
| 27 | Lebanon | 0.0196 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 28 | Palestine | 0.0194 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.3% | volatile |
| 29 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0.0192 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.3% | rising |
| 30 | American Samoa | 0.019 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 47.1% | falling |
| 31 | Cyprus | 0.0188 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.8% | rising |
| 32 | United Kingdom | 0.0176 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 44.0% | falling |
| 33 | Italy | 0.0163 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.3% | rising |
| 34 | Tuvalu | 0.0161 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 61.9% | rising |
| 35 | Poland | 0.016 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.5% | rising |
| 36 | Czechia | 0.0153 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.4% | falling |
| 37 | Switzerland | 0.0143 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 24.9% | falling |
| 38 | Uganda | 0.014 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 305.7% | volatile |
| 39 | Bahamas | 0.0135 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.4% | volatile |
| 40 | Dominican Republic | 0.0128 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 79.1% | rising |
| 41 | Marshall Islands | 0.0126 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.7% | falling |
| 42 | Malaysia | 0.0118 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.4% | volatile |
| 43 | Dominica | 0.0107 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.7% | volatile |
| 44 | Philippines | 0.0098 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 59.8% | volatile |
| 45 | Ireland | 0.0095 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 46 | Vietnam | 0.0094 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 336.2% | volatile |
| 47 | Turkey | 0.009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.9% | volatile |
| 48 | Oman | 0.0088 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 465.7% | volatile |
| 49 | Palau | 0.0087 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.0% | falling |
| 50 | Thailand | 0.0087 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.3% | volatile |
| 51 | Greece | 0.0079 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.1% | rising |
| 52 | Serbia | 0.0074 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.7% | rising |
| 53 | Panama | 0.0072 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 99.6% | volatile |
| 54 | Estonia | 0.007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 21.7% | rising |
| 55 | Turkmenistan | 0.0068 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 74.7% | rising |
| 56 | Slovakia | 0.0063 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 44.9% | falling |
| 57 | Denmark | 0.0063 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 57.9% | falling |
| 58 | Slovenia | 0.006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 32.2% | falling |
| 59 | Portugal | 0.0059 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.8% | rising |
| 60 | Sri Lanka | 0.0058 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 159.9% | volatile |
| 61 | France | 0.0058 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 27.0% | falling |
| 62 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.0058 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 47.5% | volatile |
| 63 | Hungary | 0.0057 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.9% | falling |
| 64 | Azerbaijan | 0.0053 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.1% | rising |
| 65 | Bulgaria | 0.0051 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.0% | volatile |
| 66 | United States | 0.0051 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.4% | flat |
| 67 | Spain | 0.0051 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.9% | rising |
| 68 | Austria | 0.0049 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.1% | falling |
| 69 | Bangladesh | 0.0049 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 125.9% | volatile |
| 70 | South Africa | 0.0048 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 71 | Guatemala | 0.0047 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 90.7% | rising |
| 72 | Montenegro | 0.0045 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 781.2% | volatile |
| 73 | India | 0.0042 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.8% | volatile |
| 74 | El Salvador | 0.0041 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 28.5% | rising |
| 75 | Saudi Arabia | 0.004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.3% | rising |
| 76 | Indonesia | 0.0039 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 92.3% | volatile |
| 77 | Egypt | 0.0038 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 117.2% | volatile |
| 78 | Samoa | 0.0038 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 61.9% | rising |
| 79 | Moldova | 0.0037 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.1% | volatile |
| 80 | North Macedonia | 0.0037 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 26.4% | rising |
| 81 | Croatia | 0.0035 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 82 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.0032 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 82.2% | volatile |
| 83 | Nepal | 0.0032 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 78.7% | volatile |
| 84 | Ukraine | 0.0032 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 26.8% | rising |
| 85 | Romania | 0.003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 86 | Tonga | 0.0029 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.3% | rising |
| 87 | Uzbekistan | 0.0029 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.8% | rising |
| 88 | Belarus | 0.0029 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 24.2% | falling |
| 89 | Morocco | 0.0027 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 50.2% | volatile |
| 90 | Tunisia | 0.0027 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.4% | rising |
| 91 | Faroe Islands | 0.0026 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 21.8% | flat |
| 92 | Togo | 0.0026 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.9% | rising |
| 93 | Nigeria | 0.0025 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.9% | rising |
| 94 | Benin | 0.0025 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.7% | rising |
| 95 | Jordan | 0.0023 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.7% | volatile |
| 96 | Fiji | 0.0023 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.8% | rising |
| 97 | Honduras | 0.0022 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.8% | volatile |
| 98 | Latvia | 0.0022 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.2% | falling |
| 99 | Chile | 0.002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.0% | volatile |
| 100 | Madagascar | 0.002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 102.5% | volatile |
| 101 | Myanmar | 0.0019 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.6% | rising |
| 102 | Burkina Faso | 0.0018 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 279.8% | volatile |
| 103 | Cameroon | 0.0018 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 58.3% | rising |
| 104 | Haiti | 0.0017 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.0% | rising |
| 105 | Cambodia | 0.0016 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 201.8% | volatile |
| 106 | Nicaragua | 0.0016 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.4% | volatile |
| 107 | Georgia | 0.0016 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 69.7% | rising |
| 108 | Pakistan | 0.0015 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 57.1% | volatile |
| 109 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.0014 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.6% | rising |
| 110 | Ecuador | 0.0014 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 33.8% | rising |
| 111 | Lithuania | 0.0013 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 51.2% | falling |
| 112 | Finland | 0.0013 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 35.0% | rising |
| 113 | Kazakhstan | 0.0013 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 60.5% | volatile |
| 114 | Rwanda | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 286.3% | rising |
| 115 | Armenia | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 42.6% | volatile |
| 116 | Comoros | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 120.0% | rising |
| 117 | Eswatini | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.7% | volatile |
| 118 | Belize | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 147.3% | volatile |
| 119 | Albania | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.4% | volatile |
| 120 | Mexico | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 36.4% | rising |
| 121 | Argentina | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.8% | volatile |
| 122 | Laos | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 48.8% | rising |
| 123 | Ghana | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 40.8% | volatile |
| 124 | Cuba | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.9% | volatile |
| 125 | Kiribati | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.4% | rising |
| 126 | Russia | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.5% | rising |
| 127 | Zimbabwe | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 132.8% | rising |
| 128 | Senegal | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 131.2% | volatile |
| 129 | Syria | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.6% | falling |
| 130 | Costa Rica | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 54.0% | volatile |
| 131 | Colombia | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.2% | rising |
| 132 | New Zealand | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 133 | Djibouti | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 51.8% | rising |
| 134 | Gabon | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 410.0% | volatile |
| 135 | Equatorial Guinea | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.3% | volatile |
| 136 | Iraq | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.4% | rising |
| 137 | Lesotho | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 54.5% | rising |
| 138 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 362.2% | volatile |
| 139 | Malawi | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 67.3% | volatile |
| 140 | East Timor | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 104.4% | volatile |
| 141 | Australia | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.2% | rising |
| 142 | Peru | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.1% | volatile |
| 143 | Bhutan | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 531.6% | volatile |
| 144 | China | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.1% | rising |
| 145 | Sweden | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.3% | falling |
| 146 | Botswana | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 43.6% | volatile |
| 147 | Brazil | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.5% | volatile |
| 148 | Norway | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 149 | Canada | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 150 | Mongolia | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 64.0% | volatile |
| 151 | Kenya | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 315.5% | volatile |
| 152 | Sudan | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 139.5% | rising |
| 153 | Congo | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 725.4% | volatile |
| 154 | Niger | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 38.7% | rising |
| 155 | Eritrea | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.6% | flat |
| 156 | Tajikistan | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20,027.1% | volatile |
| 157 | Ethiopia | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.3% | volatile |
| 158 | Guinea | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 603.2% | volatile |
| 159 | Angola | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 51.7% | volatile |
| 160 | Namibia | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 611.4% | volatile |
| 161 | Algeria | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 162 | Uruguay | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 66.1% | volatile |
| 163 | Mali | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 67.5% | rising |
| 164 | Suriname | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 46.0% | volatile |
| 165 | Papua New Guinea | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 87.6% | volatile |
| 166 | Guyana | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.4% | volatile |
| 167 | Vanuatu | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 17.4% | rising |
| 168 | Libya | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 51.8% | volatile |
| 169 | New Caledonia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.0% | falling |
| 170 | Sierra Leone | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 185.6% | volatile |
| 171 | Yemen | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 56.7% | volatile |
| 172 | Afghanistan | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 219.9% | volatile |
| 173 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 860.1% | volatile |
| 174 | Mozambique | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 480.1% | volatile |
| 175 | Burundi | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.7% | rising |
| 176 | Solomon Islands | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 31.7% | volatile |
| 177 | Mauritania | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 123.1% | volatile |
| 178 | Central African Republic | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 991.0% | volatile |
| 179 | Zambia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 88.7% | volatile |
| 180 | South Sudan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 68.2% | volatile |
| 181 | Paraguay | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.4% | rising |
| 182 | Greenland | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.1% | rising |
| 183 | Liberia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 184 | Gambia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 1994 | — | falling |
| 185 | Iceland | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.2% | volatile |
| 186 | Chad | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.9% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 0.0021 kt per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
Food Retail — Emissions (CO2) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Food Retail — Emissions (CO2) ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Food Retail — Emissions Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Food Retail — Emissions (CO2) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.