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Forest fires — Emissions (CH4) — FAO TIER 1 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
236
Highest
424.29 kt
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lowest
0 kt
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
Median
0.001 kt
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
9,061

What the numbers show

Forest fires — Emissions (CH4) — FAO TIER 1 is currently reported for 236 countries. The highest value is 424.29 kt in Democratic Republic of the Congo; the lowest is 0 kt in Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.001 kt, and the mean is 13.51 kt.

Over the past decade 49 countries rose and 67 fell. The largest increase was in Greece (up 14,736.2%), and the largest decrease in Austria (down 100.0%).

Forest fires — Emissions (CH4) — FAO TIER 1: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Democratic Republic of the Congo 424.29 kt 2023 down 34.2% falling
2 OECD 391.63 kt 2023 up 132.9% volatile
3 Zambia 286.25 kt 2023 down 37.1% rising
4 Mozambique 270.76 kt 2023 down 46.9% rising
5 Canada 266.67 kt 2023 up 1,013.6% volatile
6 Brazil 195.63 kt 2023 up 198.9% volatile
7 Angola 194.44 kt 2023 down 43.4% falling
8 Myanmar 185.04 kt 2023 down 13.3% falling
9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 176.17 kt 2023 up 461.5% volatile
10 Lao People's Democratic Republic 108.41 kt 2023 up 156.3% volatile
11 United Republic of Tanzania 79.02 kt 2023 down 47.6% rising
12 India 60.21 kt 2023 down 48.7% volatile
13 Thailand 57.68 kt 2023 up 96.5% flat
14 Russian Federation 50.55 kt 2023 down 13.8% volatile
15 Cambodia 38.26 kt 2023 down 66.2% falling
16 Mexico 36.53 kt 2023 down 31.4% volatile
17 Sudan (former) 34.33 kt 2011 up 26.7% volatile
18 Chile 31.66 kt 2023 up 2,776.2% volatile
19 South Sudan 31.48 kt 2023 up 12.1% rising
20 Nepal 25.7 kt 2023 up 11.8% volatile
21 Indonesia 23.92 kt 2023 up 72.4% volatile
22 Australia and New Zealand 18.81 kt 2023 down 67.2% volatile
23 Australia 18.78 kt 2023 down 67.3% volatile
24 Ethiopia 17.25 kt 2023 down 9.9% volatile
25 Madagascar 13.94 kt 2023 down 25.7% falling
26 China 12.89 kt 2023 up 56.8% volatile
26 China, mainland 12.89 kt 2023 up 57.4% volatile
28 Honduras 12.76 kt 2023 up 68.8% volatile
29 Cameroon 12.03 kt 2023 down 25.9% volatile
30 Chad 11.58 kt 2023 down 55.1% volatile
31 Viet Nam 10.15 kt 2023 up 24.7% volatile
32 Nicaragua 7.61 kt 2023 up 257.2% volatile
33 Nigeria 6.52 kt 2023 down 22.8% volatile
34 Congo 5.52 kt 2023 up 2.3% falling
35 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 4.14 kt 2023 down 33.2% volatile
36 Malawi 3.98 kt 2023 down 59.0% rising
37 Argentina 3.93 kt 2023 down 83.2% volatile
38 Caribbean 3.63 kt 2023 up 35.6% volatile
39 Colombia 3.57 kt 2023 up 10.9% volatile
40 Greece 2.95 kt 2023 up 14,736.2% volatile
41 Paraguay 2.73 kt 2023 down 74.6% volatile
42 Cuba 2.69 kt 2023 up 175.7% volatile
43 Spain 2.65 kt 2023 up 933.2% volatile
44 Peru 2.53 kt 2023 down 2.1% volatile
45 Belize 2.17 kt 2023 down 26.1% volatile
46 Guatemala 1.98 kt 2023 down 61.8% volatile
47 Melanesia 1.95 kt 2023 up 55.9% volatile
48 Papua New Guinea 1.85 kt 2023 up 48.2% volatile
49 Algeria 1.48 kt 2023 up 321.2% volatile
50 Liberia 1.46 kt 2023 down 15.1% volatile
51 Guinea-Bissau 1.17 kt 2023 down 84.1% volatile
52 Philippines 1.02 kt 2023 up 43.3% volatile
53 Guinea 0.9577 kt 2023 down 83.6% volatile
54 Bangladesh 0.9218 kt 2023 down 85.5% volatile
55 Zimbabwe 0.8929 kt 2023 down 82.9% volatile
56 Ghana 0.8112 kt 2023 up 136.4% volatile
57 Gabon 0.7313 kt 2023 down 0.4% falling
58 Portugal 0.6669 kt 2023 down 46.9% volatile
59 Dominican Republic 0.591 kt 2023 up 293.7% volatile
60 Senegal 0.5189 kt 2023 down 84.6% volatile
61 Ukraine 0.5092 kt 2023 down 79.8% volatile
62 Sierra Leone 0.4912 kt 2023 down 32.0% volatile
63 Guyana 0.4885 kt 2023 up 160.0% volatile
64 Bhutan 0.4687 kt 2023 up 106.1% volatile
65 Bahamas 0.3393 kt 2023 down 78.1% volatile
66 Italy 0.3112 kt 2023 up 108.2% volatile
67 Benin 0.3006 kt 2023 down 58.9% volatile
67 Côte d'Ivoire 0.3006 kt 2023 down 47.7% volatile
69 Uganda 0.2789 kt 2023 down 61.4% volatile
70 France 0.2219 kt 2023 up 1,168.0% volatile
71 Togo 0.1942 kt 2023 up 305.4% volatile
72 Suriname 0.1941 kt 2023 up 712.1% volatile
73 Georgia 0.1844 kt 2023 up 68.1% volatile
74 Eswatini 0.1714 kt 2023 down 69.5% volatile
75 Malaysia 0.1586 kt 2023 down 81.9% volatile
76 Timor-Leste 0.1489 kt 2023 — volatile
77 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 0.142 kt 2023 down 76.2% volatile
78 Ecuador 0.1405 kt 2023 up 268.8% volatile
79 Türkiye 0.1295 kt 2023 up 40.6% volatile
80 Syrian Arab Republic 0.1269 kt 2023 up 466.5% volatile
81 Japan 0.1169 kt 2023 down 7.9% flat
82 Kenya 0.1164 kt 2023 up 681.2% volatile
83 Panama 0.1117 kt 2023 up 252.4% volatile
84 Tunisia 0.1045 kt 2023 down 2.3% volatile
85 Fiji 0.0852 kt 2023 — volatile
86 Kazakhstan 0.0673 kt 2023 up 861.4% volatile
87 Sudan 0.0623 kt 2023 up 149.2% volatile
88 Costa Rica 0.0582 kt 2023 down 94.9% volatile
89 Rwanda 0.057 kt 2023 down 37.8% volatile
90 Morocco 0.0523 kt 2023 — volatile
91 Uruguay 0.0398 kt 2023 up 696.0% volatile
91 Republic of Korea 0.0398 kt 2023 down 75.8% volatile
93 New Zealand 0.0349 kt 2023 up 16.7% volatile
94 Namibia 0.0322 kt 2023 up 544.0% volatile
95 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0299 kt 2023 up 33.5% volatile
96 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.0274 kt 2023 — volatile
97 French Guiana 0.0239 kt 2023 up 350.9% volatile
98 Albania 0.0199 kt 2023 — volatile
99 Armenia 0.0174 kt 2023 — volatile
100 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.0166 kt 2023 — volatile
101 Equatorial Guinea 0.0133 kt 2023 — volatile
102 New Caledonia 0.0107 kt 2023 — volatile
103 El Salvador 0.0103 kt 2023 down 98.6% volatile
104 Bulgaria 0.0075 kt 2023 up 200.0% volatile
104 Belarus 0.0075 kt 2023 down 91.7% volatile
106 Haiti 0.0074 kt 2023 — volatile
107 Belgium-Luxembourg 0.0053 kt 1999 up 178.9% volatile
107 Brunei Darussalam 0.0053 kt 2023 — volatile
109 Hungary 0.005 kt 2023 — volatile
109 Serbia and Montenegro 0.005 kt 2005 down 80.7% volatile
111 Burundi 0.0025 kt 2023 down 98.4% volatile
111 Croatia 0.0025 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Sri Lanka 0.0025 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Latvia 0.0025 kt 2023 down 66.7% volatile
111 North Macedonia 0.0025 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Romania 0.0025 kt 2023 down 97.8% volatile
111 Republic of Moldova 0.0025 kt 2023 down 95.4% volatile
118 Mongolia 0.002 kt 2023 down 73.3% volatile
119 Aruba 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Afghanistan 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Andorra 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 United Arab Emirates 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Antigua and Barbuda 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Austria 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Azerbaijan 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Belgium 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Burkina Faso 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Bahrain 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Bermuda 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Barbados 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Botswana 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Switzerland 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Channel Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Comoros 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Cayman Islands 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Cyprus 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Czechia 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Germany 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Djibouti 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Dominica 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Denmark 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Egypt 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Eritrea 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Estonia 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Finland 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Faroe Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Gibraltar 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Gambia 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Grenada 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Greenland 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Guam 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Isle of Man 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Ireland 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Iraq 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Iceland 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Israel 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Jamaica 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Jordan 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Kiribati 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Kuwait 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Lebanon 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Libya 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Saint Lucia 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Liechtenstein 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Lesotho 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Lithuania 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Luxembourg 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Maldives 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Marshall Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Mali 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Malta 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Montenegro 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Northern Mariana Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Mauritania 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Mauritius 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Niger 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Norway 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Nauru 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Oman 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Pakistan 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Palau 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Poland 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Puerto Rico 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Palestine 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 French Polynesia 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Qatar 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Saudi Arabia 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Singapore 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Solomon Islands 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Somalia 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Serbia 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Slovakia 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Slovenia 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Sweden 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Seychelles 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Tajikistan 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Turkmenistan 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Tonga 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Tuvalu 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Uzbekistan 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 British Virgin Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 United States Virgin Islands 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Vanuatu 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Samoa 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Yemen 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Guadeloupe 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Martinique 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Mayotte 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Western Sahara 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Anguilla 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Cook Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Montserrat 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Niue 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Tokelau 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Wallis and Futuna Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Micronesia 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Norfolk Island 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Cabo Verde 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Pitcairn 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Polynesia 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 China, Hong Kong SAR 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 China, Taiwan Province of 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
119 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 China, Macao SAR 0 kt 2023 — flat
119 Netherlands Antilles (former) 0 kt 2010 — flat
119 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0 kt 2023 — volatile
119 Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat

Regions and income groups

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

About this data

Indicator
Forest fires — Emissions (CH4) — FAO TIER 1
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
273 places, 9,061 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