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Food Transport — Emissions (CO2) 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...

Countries reporting
233
Highest
213,019 kt
OECD
Lowest
0.2646 kt
Tuvalu
Median
363.92 kt
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
8,686

What the numbers show

Food Transport — Emissions (CO2) is currently reported for 233 countries. The highest value is 213,019 kt in OECD; the lowest is 0.2646 kt in Tuvalu.

The median across all reporting countries is 363.92 kt, and the mean is 2,998 kt.

Over the past decade 167 countries rose and 66 fell. The largest increase was in Serbia and Montenegro (up 450.1%), and the largest decrease in Gabon (down 76.0%).

Food Transport — Emissions: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 OECD 213,019 kt 2023 up 1.3% rising
2 China 39,042 kt 2023 up 11.3% rising
2 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 15,727 kt 2023 up 12.1% rising
3 China, mainland 34,271 kt 2023 up 13.3% rising
4 Brazil 28,629 kt 2023 up 10.8% rising
4 Türkiye 9,661 kt 2023 up 57.3% rising
5 Russian Federation 20,918 kt 2023 up 22.8% rising
6 Japan 19,321 kt 2023 down 14.5% falling
6 Viet Nam 3,865 kt 2023 up 23.3% volatile
7 Canada 17,411 kt 2023 down 5.6% rising
8 Saudi Arabia 14,765 kt 2023 up 10.7% rising
8 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1,497 kt 2023 down 72.8% falling
9 India 14,306 kt 2023 down 40.5% rising
9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,332 kt 2023 up 53.4% volatile
10 Mexico 14,193 kt 2023 down 13.9% rising
10 United Republic of Tanzania 1,073 kt 2023 up 57.7% volatile
11 Republic of Korea 11,366 kt 2023 up 14.3% rising
11 Syrian Arab Republic 510.71 kt 2023 down 25.5% falling
12 Germany 11,084 kt 2023 down 6.5% falling
12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 482.96 kt 2023 up 42.0% volatile
13 Australia and New Zealand 10,619 kt 2023 down 0.3% rising
13 Melanesia 363.92 kt 2023 up 23.3% rising
14 France 9,661 kt 2023 down 0.7% rising
14 Lao People's Democratic Republic 327.2 kt 2023 up 50.9% volatile
15 Thailand 9,413 kt 2023 up 40.1% rising
15 Republic of Moldova 244.11 kt 2023 up 27.8% rising
16 Australia 9,115 kt 2023 down 1.3% rising
16 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 109.44 kt 2023 down 30.4% volatile
17 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 8,483 kt 2023 down 2.7% flat
17 Polynesia 88.05 kt 2023 up 15.5% rising
18 Italy 7,811 kt 2023 up 2.9% flat
18 Micronesia 34.07 kt 2023 up 1.1% rising
19 Indonesia 7,446 kt 2023 down 39.4% rising
19 Timor-Leste 14.01 kt 2023 up 143.7% rising
20 Spain 6,677 kt 2023 up 13.4% rising
20 Micronesia (Federated States of) 7.47 kt 2023 up 5.3% flat
21 Nigeria 6,592 kt 2023 up 36.7% rising
21 Wallis and Futuna Islands 0.8712 kt 2023 down 1.4% flat
22 Malaysia 6,180 kt 2023 down 1.9% rising
23 Pakistan 5,961 kt 2023 up 49.1% rising
24 Argentina 5,749 kt 2023 up 0.3% rising
25 Poland 5,286 kt 2023 up 57.8% rising
26 South Africa 5,097 kt 2023 down 11.4% rising
27 Algeria 4,681 kt 2023 up 10.8% volatile
28 Iraq 4,458 kt 2023 up 29.8% rising
29 Colombia 4,334 kt 2023 up 57.8% rising
30 China, Taiwan Province of 4,270 kt 2023 up 2.2% rising
31 Egypt 3,992 kt 2023 down 24.3% rising
31 Caribbean 2,131 kt 2023 up 15.3% rising
32 Philippines 3,784 kt 2023 up 41.6% rising
32 Côte d'Ivoire 798.43 kt 2023 up 200.7% volatile
33 United Arab Emirates 3,752 kt 2023 down 12.9% rising
33 Cabo Verde 24.48 kt 2023 up 14.9% rising
34 Kazakhstan 3,265 kt 2023 up 115.7% rising
35 Chile 3,212 kt 2023 up 26.5% rising
36 Peru 3,138 kt 2023 up 49.2% rising
37 Ecuador 2,053 kt 2023 up 26.7% rising
38 Israel 2,038 kt 2023 up 15.9% rising
39 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 2,006 kt 2023 down 15.8% flat
40 Uzbekistan 1,958 kt 2023 up 283.4% volatile
41 Belgium 1,910 kt 2023 up 1.8% flat
42 Libya 1,909 kt 2023 down 0.4% rising
43 Morocco 1,908 kt 2023 up 15.4% rising
44 Kuwait 1,878 kt 2023 up 31.2% rising
45 Romania 1,666 kt 2023 up 41.3% rising
46 Switzerland 1,653 kt 2023 down 11.6% rising
47 Austria 1,648 kt 2023 down 7.1% rising
48 Czechia 1,526 kt 2023 up 20.3% rising
49 Myanmar 1,510 kt 2023 up 406.0% volatile
50 New Zealand 1,504 kt 2023 up 5.9% rising
51 Ukraine 1,431 kt 2023 down 50.8% falling
52 Bangladesh 1,409 kt 2023 up 54.0% volatile
53 Norway 1,393 kt 2023 down 3.5% rising
54 Sweden 1,338 kt 2023 down 10.3% flat
55 Greece 1,310 kt 2023 up 9.6% rising
56 Sudan 1,291 kt 2023 up 38.2% rising
57 Portugal 1,269 kt 2023 up 6.3% rising
58 Qatar 1,263 kt 2023 up 14.4% volatile
59 Oman 1,202 kt 2023 down 10.6% volatile
60 Ghana 1,194 kt 2023 up 40.6% volatile
61 Hungary 1,174 kt 2023 up 53.1% rising
62 Guatemala 1,164 kt 2023 up 76.8% rising
63 Kenya 1,128 kt 2023 up 78.1% volatile
64 Belarus 1,060 kt 2023 down 15.6% rising
65 Sudan (former) 957.56 kt 2011 up 145.6% rising
66 Azerbaijan 957.24 kt 2023 up 26.6% rising
67 Sri Lanka 940.91 kt 2023 up 12.2% rising
68 Angola 899.33 kt 2023 up 9.5% volatile
69 Denmark 894.9 kt 2023 down 0.9% rising
70 Ireland 894.48 kt 2023 up 8.6% rising
71 Serbia 888.17 kt 2023 up 41.5% rising
72 Jordan 859.67 kt 2023 up 10.0% rising
73 Paraguay 851.99 kt 2023 up 50.0% rising
74 Finland 839.7 kt 2023 down 8.8% rising
75 Tunisia 811.26 kt 2023 up 29.7% rising
76 Cambodia 792.04 kt 2023 up 107.2% volatile
77 Turkmenistan 790.76 kt 2023 up 1.5% rising
78 Ethiopia 790.38 kt 2023 up 91.1% volatile
79 Dominican Republic 790.01 kt 2023 up 24.0% rising
80 Bulgaria 752.77 kt 2023 up 39.9% rising
81 Lebanon 710.62 kt 2023 up 27.5% rising
82 Singapore 642.22 kt 2023 down 15.2% rising
83 Honduras 624.57 kt 2023 up 82.4% rising
84 Costa Rica 619.43 kt 2023 up 15.7% rising
85 Panama 614.34 kt 2023 up 50.5% rising
86 Serbia and Montenegro 594.61 kt 2004 up 450.1% rising
87 Slovakia 585.73 kt 2023 up 26.7% rising
88 Senegal 516.28 kt 2023 up 107.9% volatile
89 Croatia 495.62 kt 2023 up 16.9% rising
90 Benin 482.54 kt 2023 up 15.1% volatile
91 Afghanistan 480.24 kt 2023 up 26.1% volatile
92 El Salvador 479.91 kt 2023 up 58.6% rising
93 Lithuania 476.74 kt 2023 up 40.3% rising
94 China, Hong Kong SAR 464.05 kt 2023 down 21.7% falling
95 Uruguay 462.78 kt 2023 up 18.5% rising
96 Mozambique 451.44 kt 2023 up 116.5% volatile
97 Bosnia and Herzegovina 444.79 kt 2023 up 41.9% rising
98 Slovenia 443.3 kt 2023 up 8.7% rising
99 Nepal 440.37 kt 2023 up 35.4% volatile
100 Bahrain 430.19 kt 2023 up 23.4% rising
101 Georgia 419.56 kt 2023 up 28.4% volatile
102 Mali 411.85 kt 2023 up 175.4% volatile
103 Uganda 410.69 kt 2023 up 65.5% volatile
104 Cameroon 399.69 kt 2023 up 15.1% rising
105 Palestine 374.89 kt 2023 up 146.6% volatile
106 Burkina Faso 371.45 kt 2023 up 99.3% volatile
107 Zambia 363.36 kt 2023 up 93.6% volatile
108 Luxembourg 354.74 kt 2023 down 28.0% falling
109 Jamaica 328.42 kt 2023 up 63.3% rising
110 Yemen 294.1 kt 2023 down 67.5% falling
111 Tajikistan 271.33 kt 2023 up 171.7% volatile
112 Armenia 268.56 kt 2023 up 39.7% volatile
113 Guinea 266.21 kt 2023 up 136.9% volatile
114 Trinidad and Tobago 263.31 kt 2023 down 9.0% rising
115 Nicaragua 258.35 kt 2023 up 41.3% rising
116 Zimbabwe 256.77 kt 2023 down 21.8% flat
117 North Macedonia 256.21 kt 2023 up 49.6% rising
118 Botswana 248.42 kt 2023 up 9.0% rising
119 Latvia 236.06 kt 2023 up 3.7% rising
120 Niger 234.81 kt 2023 up 143.1% volatile
121 Mauritania 233.76 kt 2023 up 129.8% volatile
122 Mongolia 229.83 kt 2023 up 78.9% rising
123 Albania 221.23 kt 2023 down 17.7% rising
124 Namibia 197.97 kt 2023 up 3.6% rising
125 Estonia 191.19 kt 2023 up 11.4% rising
126 Madagascar 171.06 kt 2023 up 62.8% rising
127 Netherlands Antilles (former) 170.53 kt 2010 up 42.5% rising
128 Chad 169.28 kt 2023 up 9.1% volatile
129 Papua New Guinea 157.4 kt 2023 up 12.7% rising
130 Kyrgyzstan 156.91 kt 2023 down 64.2% volatile
131 Haiti 148.89 kt 2023 up 53.1% rising
132 Cyprus 143.77 kt 2023 up 5.8% rising
133 Réunion 142.38 kt 2010 up 28.5% rising
134 Togo 134.21 kt 2023 up 66.9% volatile
135 Congo 133.55 kt 2023 down 36.9% volatile
136 Brunei Darussalam 130.16 kt 2023 down 9.9% rising
137 Malawi 130.09 kt 2023 up 68.2% rising
138 Guyana 129.7 kt 2023 up 91.7% rising
139 Curaçao 127.5 kt 2023 down 16.1% falling
140 Cuba 126.85 kt 2023 down 25.3% volatile
141 Mauritius 126.59 kt 2023 up 19.2% rising
142 Maldives 118.76 kt 2023 up 124.3% volatile
143 Iceland 111.37 kt 2023 up 25.8% rising
144 Montenegro 102.25 kt 2023 up 86.9% rising
145 South Sudan 97.28 kt 2023 down 4.1% falling
146 Fiji 96.6 kt 2023 up 78.5% rising
147 Eswatini 93.95 kt 2023 up 41.1% rising
148 Sierra Leone 92.63 kt 2023 up 55.7% volatile
149 Guadeloupe 91.1 kt 2010 up 13.1% rising
150 Rwanda 88.42 kt 2023 up 90.1% rising
151 Martinique 88.16 kt 2010 up 8.9% rising
152 Bahamas 82.65 kt 2023 up 56.3% volatile
153 Burundi 74.48 kt 2023 up 117.8% volatile
154 Equatorial Guinea 67.27 kt 2023 up 11.5% volatile
155 New Caledonia 64.86 kt 2023 down 1.1% rising
156 Somalia 59.64 kt 2023 up 36.2% rising
157 Gibraltar 58.65 kt 2023 up 48.2% rising
158 Lesotho 57.6 kt 2023 up 28.7% rising
159 Malta 55.79 kt 2023 up 36.6% rising
160 Belize 47.89 kt 2023 up 29.6% rising
161 French Polynesia 45.78 kt 2023 up 15.5% rising
162 Suriname 43.9 kt 2023 up 211.5% volatile
163 Liberia 41.58 kt 2023 down 22.0% volatile
164 Barbados 39.44 kt 2023 down 12.4% rising
165 China, Macao SAR 37.28 kt 2023 down 4.6% rising
166 Andorra 35.35 kt 2023 down 4.8% flat
167 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 33.71 kt 2023 down 0.2% flat
168 Central African Republic 32.28 kt 2023 up 272.5% volatile
169 French Guiana 30.46 kt 2010 up 19.1% rising
170 Comoros 30.17 kt 2023 up 171.4% volatile
171 Saint Martin (French Part) 28.07 kt 2023 down 9.0% falling
172 Vanuatu 25.84 kt 2023 up 224.5% volatile
173 Eritrea 25.33 kt 2023 up 23.0% falling
174 Saint Lucia 24.43 kt 2023 up 11.2% rising
175 Aruba 23.61 kt 2023 down 0.0% rising
176 Antigua and Barbuda 22.82 kt 2023 up 22.1% rising
177 Gabon 22.06 kt 2023 down 76.0% flat
178 Cayman Islands 21.39 kt 2023 up 22.8% rising
179 Solomon Islands 19.22 kt 2023 down 30.9% rising
180 Seychelles 18.92 kt 2023 up 105.5% rising
181 Bhutan 18.85 kt 2023 up 149.7% volatile
182 Turks and Caicos Islands 15.94 kt 2023 up 28.1% rising
183 Samoa 14.04 kt 2023 up 27.0% rising
184 Djibouti 13.89 kt 2023 up 20.9% rising
185 American Samoa 13.32 kt 2023 up 0.4% falling
186 Bermuda 12.13 kt 2023 down 13.8% falling
187 Grenada 11.96 kt 2023 up 31.7% rising
188 Palau 11.64 kt 2023 down 9.5% rising
189 Faroe Islands 11.63 kt 2023 up 11.8% rising
190 Jersey 11.51 kt 2023 down 17.3% rising
191 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 11.16 kt 2023 up 99.0% rising
192 Guinea-Bissau 10.75 kt 2023 down 12.7% rising
193 Mayotte 10.53 kt 2010 up 64.9% rising
194 Tonga 10.1 kt 2023 up 35.1% rising
195 Marshall Islands 9.94 kt 2023 up 8.5% rising
196 Gambia 8.78 kt 2023 up 17.1% falling
197 Saint Kitts and Nevis 8.69 kt 2023 up 18.6% rising
198 Greenland 7.01 kt 2023 down 3.4% rising
199 Dominica 5.69 kt 2023 down 1.5% rising
200 Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba 4.5 kt 2023 down 0.4% flat
201 Sao Tome and Principe 4.17 kt 2023 up 0.3% rising
202 Anguilla 4.09 kt 2023 up 6.7% rising
203 British Virgin Islands 4.02 kt 2023 down 15.0% rising
204 Cook Islands 3.32 kt 2023 down 0.9% rising
205 Kiribati 3.24 kt 2023 up 28.3% rising
206 Saint Barthélemy 2.67 kt 2023 up 21.7% rising
207 Northern Mariana Islands 1.78 kt 2023 down 12.9% falling
208 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 1.21 kt 2023 down 22.5% rising
209 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.9118 kt 2023 down 10.0% falling
210 Montserrat 0.7092 kt 2023 down 57.1% falling
211 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0.5396 kt 2023 up 20.5% rising
212 Niue 0.354 kt 2023 up 23.3% falling
213 Tuvalu 0.2646 kt 2023 down 11.9% rising

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 Transport — Emissions (CO2)
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
267 places, 8,686 data points, 1990–2023
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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.