Statizoid

Food Retail — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) 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
203
Highest
260,548 kt
OECD
Lowest
0.0012 kt
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Median
509.15 kt
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
8,407

What the numbers show

Food Retail — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) is currently reported for 203 countries. The highest value is 260,548 kt in OECD; the lowest is 0.0012 kt in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

The median across all reporting countries is 509.15 kt, and the mean is 4,571 kt.

Over the past decade 160 countries rose and 42 fell. The largest increase was in Serbia and Montenegro (up 2,659.1%), and the largest decrease in Denmark (down 65.6%).

Food Retail — Emissions (CO2eq): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 OECD 260,548 kt 2023 down 6.7% rising
2 China 103,850 kt 2023 up 46.0% volatile
3 China, mainland 98,810 kt 2023 up 48.1% volatile
4 India 51,368 kt 2023 up 56.6% volatile
5 Japan 30,113 kt 2023 down 11.7% rising
6 Thailand 29,307 kt 2023 up 588.5% volatile
7 Italy 20,063 kt 2023 up 56.1% rising
8 Republic of Korea 19,479 kt 2023 up 13.7% rising
9 Brazil 17,377 kt 2023 up 44.0% volatile
10 Russian Federation 14,973 kt 2023 down 7.6% rising
11 Germany 10,555 kt 2023 down 39.2% flat
12 France 10,076 kt 2023 down 31.2% rising
13 Australia and New Zealand 9,103 kt 2023 up 13.7% rising
14 Saudi Arabia 9,097 kt 2023 up 42.4% volatile
15 Malaysia 9,011 kt 2023 up 46.3% volatile
16 South Africa 8,936 kt 2023 up 7.7% rising
17 Uganda 8,933 kt 2023 up 159.5% volatile
18 Argentina 8,619 kt 2023 up 65.0% volatile
19 Australia 8,594 kt 2023 up 14.7% rising
20 Canada 7,881 kt 2023 up 41.9% rising
21 Indonesia 7,551 kt 2023 up 90.3% volatile
22 Philippines 7,273 kt 2023 up 101.2% volatile
23 Egypt 7,250 kt 2023 up 60.8% volatile
24 Mexico 7,184 kt 2023 up 20.4% rising
25 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 6,714 kt 2023 down 41.8% falling
26 Israel 6,664 kt 2023 up 59.4% volatile
27 Poland 5,406 kt 2023 down 45.2% rising
28 Chile 5,332 kt 2023 up 65.1% volatile
29 Colombia 4,377 kt 2023 up 98.3% volatile
30 Yemen 4,288 kt 2023 up 131.2% volatile
31 Haiti 4,158 kt 2023 up 124.7% volatile
32 Kuwait 3,934 kt 2023 up 26.3% volatile
33 Nigeria 3,702 kt 2023 up 29.3% rising
34 United Arab Emirates 3,545 kt 2023 up 41.3% rising
35 Kazakhstan 3,482 kt 2023 up 58.7% volatile
36 Turkmenistan 3,383 kt 2023 up 77.4% rising
37 Oman 3,350 kt 2023 up 305.0% volatile
38 Singapore 2,993 kt 2023 up 24.6% volatile
39 Palestine, State of 2,952 kt 2023 up 131.0% volatile
40 Qatar 2,817 kt 2023 up 128.3% volatile
41 Spain 2,805 kt 2023 down 55.6% rising
42 Greece 2,731 kt 2023 down 24.6% rising
43 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 2,717 kt 2023 down 21.0% rising
44 Bangladesh 2,577 kt 2023 up 139.5% volatile
45 China, Hong Kong SAR 2,536 kt 2023 up 3.0% rising
46 Czechia 2,482 kt 2023 up 9.6% rising
47 China, Taiwan Province of 2,448 kt 2023 up 27.7% rising
48 Belgium 2,357 kt 2023 down 23.0% rising
49 Ukraine 2,296 kt 2023 down 13.1% volatile
50 Pakistan 2,294 kt 2023 up 34.8% rising
51 Lebanon 2,170 kt 2023 up 116.3% volatile
52 Puerto Rico 2,155 kt 2023 up 20.7% rising
53 Switzerland 2,138 kt 2023 down 18.9% rising
54 Dominican Republic 1,988 kt 2023 up 119.3% volatile
55 Sudan 1,947 kt 2023 up 142.9% rising
56 Myanmar 1,683 kt 2023 up 27.3% rising
57 Portugal 1,561 kt 2023 up 13.3% rising
58 Nepal 1,559 kt 2023 up 113.5% volatile
59 Serbia 1,556 kt 2023 up 1.8% rising
60 Azerbaijan 1,536 kt 2023 up 374.7% volatile
61 Tunisia 1,506 kt 2023 up 85.1% volatile
62 South Sudan 1,434 kt 2023 up 131.2% rising
63 Peru 1,355 kt 2023 up 20.9% volatile
64 Trinidad and Tobago 1,336 kt 2023 up 112.3% volatile
65 Morocco 1,324 kt 2023 up 59.3% rising
66 Uzbekistan 1,313 kt 2023 up 37.2% rising
67 Austria 1,279 kt 2023 up 2.9% rising
68 Hungary 1,244 kt 2023 down 1.9% rising
69 Panama 1,201 kt 2023 up 121.6% volatile
70 Mauritius 1,184 kt 2023 up 57.1% volatile
71 Madagascar 1,178 kt 2023 up 100.1% volatile
72 Burkina Faso 1,157 kt 2023 up 177.9% volatile
73 Senegal 1,129 kt 2023 up 142.3% volatile
74 Romania 1,107 kt 2023 up 30.1% rising
75 Libya 1,091 kt 2023 down 3.4% volatile
76 Algeria 1,009 kt 2023 up 103.8% volatile
77 Finland 999.82 kt 2023 down 26.7% rising
78 Benin 922.01 kt 2023 up 89.8% volatile
79 Ireland 897.03 kt 2023 down 32.0% rising
80 Cameroon 881.72 kt 2023 up 14.5% rising
81 Bahrain 821.35 kt 2023 up 9.6% volatile
82 Zimbabwe 807.55 kt 2023 up 139.3% volatile
83 Honduras 781.44 kt 2023 up 73.4% volatile
84 Bulgaria 747.07 kt 2023 up 24.8% volatile
85 Niger 743.24 kt 2023 up 84.4% rising
86 Guatemala 735.48 kt 2023 up 103.3% volatile
87 Sri Lanka 734.39 kt 2023 up 150.2% volatile
88 Mongolia 732.7 kt 2023 up 59.6% volatile
89 Bosnia and Herzegovina 730.32 kt 2023 up 9.9% volatile
90 Sudan (former) 715.67 kt 2011 up 252.1% volatile
91 Afghanistan 688.36 kt 2023 up 149.2% volatile
92 Cambodia 686.03 kt 2023 up 165.5% volatile
93 Togo 677.6 kt 2023 up 104.7% volatile
94 Guinea 655.64 kt 2023 up 157.2% volatile
95 Belarus 637.76 kt 2023 down 24.0% falling
96 Mali 598 kt 2023 up 111.9% volatile
97 Slovak Republic 579.33 kt 2023 down 28.0% falling
98 Jordan 557.38 kt 2023 up 24.5% volatile
99 Botswana 551.06 kt 2023 down 4.3% volatile
100 Cuba 547.36 kt 2023 up 110.7% volatile
101 Ecuador 523.01 kt 2023 down 17.5% volatile
102 New Zealand 509.15 kt 2023 down 1.1% rising
103 Sweden 443.96 kt 2023 up 7.7% falling
104 Chad 434.83 kt 2023 up 142.5% volatile
105 Nicaragua 376.23 kt 2023 up 57.4% volatile
106 North Macedonia 375.62 kt 2023 up 76.4% rising
107 Jamaica 373.37 kt 2023 up 82.3% volatile
108 Central African Republic 354.61 kt 2023 up 163.5% volatile
109 Denmark 349.25 kt 2023 down 65.6% falling
110 Malawi 344.71 kt 2023 up 127.7% volatile
111 Estonia 342.17 kt 2023 down 22.8% rising
112 Norway 340.03 kt 2023 down 17.3% rising
113 Croatia 337.43 kt 2023 up 2.3% rising
114 Brunei Darussalam 308.77 kt 2023 up 64.2% volatile
115 Iraq 303.47 kt 2023 down 4.7% volatile
116 Angola 299.07 kt 2023 down 44.1% volatile
117 Namibia 297.69 kt 2023 up 166.0% volatile
118 Mozambique 291.76 kt 2023 up 177.4% volatile
119 Lesotho 287.85 kt 2023 up 80.8% volatile
120 Kenya 280.7 kt 2023 up 143.0% volatile
121 Bahamas 276.7 kt 2023 up 54.7% volatile
122 Ethiopia 276.11 kt 2023 up 33.8% volatile
123 El Salvador 274.97 kt 2023 up 11.7% volatile
124 Papua New Guinea 252.89 kt 2023 up 60.1% volatile
125 Ghana 240.15 kt 2023 up 40.8% rising
126 Armenia 217.05 kt 2023 up 66.2% volatile
127 Gabon 216.77 kt 2023 up 308.9% volatile
128 Cyprus 208.05 kt 2023 up 30.4% rising
129 Georgia 202.02 kt 2023 down 26.9% volatile
130 Fiji 195.67 kt 2023 up 98.9% volatile
131 Slovenia 195.43 kt 2023 down 28.9% flat
132 Costa Rica 195.32 kt 2023 up 2.3% volatile
133 Burundi 193.27 kt 2023 up 142.4% volatile
134 Albania 190.79 kt 2023 up 116.0% volatile
135 Equatorial Guinea 187.29 kt 2023 up 115.8% volatile
136 Rwanda 183.62 kt 2023 up 80.6% volatile
137 Uruguay 180.13 kt 2023 up 101.4% volatile
138 Barbados 168.11 kt 2023 up 59.8% volatile
139 Latvia 167.31 kt 2023 down 16.5% falling
140 Eswatini 164.75 kt 2023 up 108.5% volatile
141 Lithuania 159.81 kt 2023 down 45.6% rising
142 Djibouti 146.96 kt 2023 up 84.8% volatile
143 Montenegro 142.8 kt 2023 up 62.3% rising
144 Guyana 138.5 kt 2023 up 90.2% volatile
145 Kyrgyzstan 128.21 kt 2023 up 305.1% volatile
146 Gambia 125.98 kt 2023 up 149.4% volatile
147 Malta 123.84 kt 2023 down 29.3% volatile
148 Solomon Islands 121.26 kt 2023 up 176.4% volatile
149 Suriname 104.48 kt 2023 up 35.2% volatile
150 Guinea-Bissau 104.37 kt 2023 up 144.8% volatile
151 Congo 102.97 kt 2023 up 393.9% volatile
152 Aruba 95.35 kt 2023 up 16.5% volatile
153 Luxembourg 95.26 kt 2023 down 29.4% flat
154 Serbia and Montenegro 80.64 kt 2005 up 2,659.1% volatile
155 Saint Lucia 72.78 kt 2023 up 4.0% rising
156 Mauritania 72.15 kt 2023 up 113.5% volatile
157 China, Macao SAR 56.15 kt 2023 up 85.6% volatile
158 Vanuatu 55.08 kt 2023 up 167.2% volatile
159 New Caledonia 48.48 kt 2023 up 127.8% volatile
160 Maldives 48.1 kt 2023 up 267.9% volatile
161 Liberia 48.05 kt 2023 up 56.6% volatile
162 Bhutan 47.05 kt 2023 up 207.8% volatile
163 Belize 46.95 kt 2023 up 147.6% volatile
164 Antigua and Barbuda 40.68 kt 2023 up 37.4% volatile
165 Tajikistan 39.43 kt 2023 up 955.4% volatile
166 United States Virgin Islands 37.68 kt 2023 up 101.5% volatile
167 Zambia 35.32 kt 2023 up 87.2% volatile
168 Eritrea 28.12 kt 2023 up 24.5% volatile
169 Seychelles 25.07 kt 2023 up 89.3% volatile
170 Cayman Islands 23.67 kt 2023 up 128.2% volatile
171 Sao Tome and Principe 23.46 kt 2023 up 119.4% volatile
172 Sierra Leone 23.31 kt 2023 up 81.8% volatile
173 Saint Kitts and Nevis 23.19 kt 2023 up 18.0% rising
174 Iceland 19.69 kt 2023 up 19.5% volatile
175 Grenada 18.6 kt 2023 up 14.4% rising
176 Turks and Caicos Islands 13.96 kt 2023 up 132.3% volatile
177 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 13.22 kt 2023 up 12.4% rising
178 Greenland 11.13 kt 2023 up 19.6% volatile
179 British Virgin Islands 10.83 kt 2023 up 116.9% volatile
180 Samoa 10.56 kt 2023 up 59.0% rising
181 Andorra 10.21 kt 2023 up 81.8% volatile
182 Dominica 8.14 kt 2023 down 9.2% volatile
183 Gibraltar 7.52 kt 2023 up 46.2% volatile
184 Bermuda 7.37 kt 2023 up 19.1% volatile
185 Anguilla 6.67 kt 2023 down 7.0% rising
186 Paraguay 6.25 kt 2023 up 20.7% rising
187 Faroe Islands 5.57 kt 2023 down 28.7% rising
188 San Marino 4.49 kt 2023 up 5.7% volatile
189 Palau 4.02 kt 2023 down 10.2% falling
190 American Samoa 3.79 kt 2023 down 47.3% falling
191 Somalia 3.46 kt 2023 up 47.7% volatile
192 Isle of Man 3.37 kt 2023 down 37.6% rising
193 Comoros 2.95 kt 2023 up 97.2% volatile
194 Marshall Islands 2.28 kt 2023 down 14.2% falling
195 Tonga 2.13 kt 2023 up 36.3% rising
196 Monaco 1.98 kt 2023 down 24.1% volatile
197 Liechtenstein 1.91 kt 2023 down 26.6% volatile
198 Nauru 1.33 kt 2023 up 95.3% rising
199 Kiribati 0.7409 kt 2023 up 21.6% rising
200 Tuvalu 0.4212 kt 2023 up 40.4% rising
201 Niue 0.1479 kt 2023 up 4.4% falling
202 Holy See 0.1216 kt 2023 up 40.9% volatile
203 Saint 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.

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Food Retail — Emissions (CO2eq) by country. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 21 August 2026, from https://climate.statizoid.com/stat/food-retail-emissions-co2eq-ar5-fao-tier-1/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://climate.statizoid.com/stat/food-retail-emissions-co2eq-ar5-fao-tier-1/">Food Retail — Emissions (CO2eq) by country</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Food Retail — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5)
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
255 places, 8,407 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed

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