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Forest fires — 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
236
Highest
22,146 kt
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lowest
0 kt
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
Median
0 kt
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
9,061

What the numbers show

Forest fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) is currently reported for 236 countries. The highest value is 22,146 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 kt, and the mean is 704.24 kt.

Over the past decade 48 countries rose and 67 fell. The largest increase was in Greece (up 14,801.5%), and the largest decrease in Austria (down 100.0%).

Forest fires — Emissions (CO2eq): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Democratic Republic of the Congo 22,146 kt 2023 down 34.2% flat
2 OECD 20,442 kt 2023 up 132.9% volatile
3 Zambia 14,941 kt 2023 down 37.1% rising
4 Mozambique 14,132 kt 2023 down 46.9% rising
5 Canada 13,919 kt 2023 up 1,013.7% volatile
6 Brazil 10,211 kt 2023 up 198.9% falling
7 Angola 10,149 kt 2023 down 43.4% falling
8 Myanmar 9,658 kt 2023 down 13.3% flat
9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 9,195 kt 2023 up 461.5% volatile
10 Lao People's Democratic Republic 5,659 kt 2023 up 156.3% volatile
11 United Republic of Tanzania 4,124 kt 2023 down 47.6% rising
12 India 3,143 kt 2023 down 48.7% volatile
13 Thailand 3,010 kt 2023 up 96.5% rising
14 Russian Federation 2,638 kt 2023 down 13.8% volatile
15 Cambodia 1,997 kt 2023 down 66.2% falling
16 Mexico 1,907 kt 2023 down 31.4% volatile
17 Sudan (former) 1,792 kt 2011 up 26.7% volatile
18 Chile 1,653 kt 2023 up 2,776.3% volatile
19 South Sudan 1,643 kt 2023 up 12.1% rising
20 Nepal 1,341 kt 2023 up 11.8% volatile
21 Indonesia 1,248 kt 2023 up 72.4% volatile
22 Australia and New Zealand 981.82 kt 2023 down 67.2% volatile
23 Australia 980 kt 2023 down 67.3% volatile
24 Ethiopia 900.21 kt 2023 down 9.9% volatile
25 Madagascar 727.78 kt 2023 down 25.7% rising
26 China 672.74 kt 2023 up 56.8% falling
26 China, mainland 672.74 kt 2023 up 57.4% falling
28 Honduras 665.83 kt 2023 up 68.8% volatile
29 Cameroon 627.74 kt 2023 down 25.9% volatile
30 Chad 604.65 kt 2023 down 55.1% volatile
31 Viet Nam 529.64 kt 2023 up 24.7% falling
32 Nicaragua 396.97 kt 2023 up 257.2% volatile
33 Nigeria 340.37 kt 2023 down 22.8% volatile
34 Congo 288.28 kt 2023 up 2.3% falling
35 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 216.22 kt 2023 down 33.2% volatile
36 Malawi 207.58 kt 2023 down 59.0% rising
36 Réunion 0 kt 2023 — volatile
37 Argentina 205.16 kt 2023 down 83.2% volatile
39 Colombia 186.08 kt 2023 up 10.9% volatile
40 Greece 154.11 kt 2023 up 14,801.5% volatile
41 Paraguay 142.73 kt 2023 down 74.6% volatile
42 Cuba 140.45 kt 2023 up 175.7% volatile
43 Spain 138.44 kt 2023 up 934.0% volatile
44 Peru 132.07 kt 2023 down 2.1% volatile
45 Belize 113.38 kt 2023 down 26.1% volatile
46 Guatemala 103.47 kt 2023 down 61.8% volatile
47 Melanesia 101.84 kt 2023 up 55.9% volatile
48 Papua New Guinea 96.83 kt 2023 up 48.2% volatile
49 Algeria 77.17 kt 2023 up 321.5% volatile
50 Liberia 76.21 kt 2023 down 15.1% volatile
51 Guinea-Bissau 60.82 kt 2023 down 84.1% volatile
52 Philippines 53 kt 2023 up 43.3% volatile
53 Guinea 49.98 kt 2023 down 83.6% volatile
54 Bangladesh 48.12 kt 2023 down 85.5% volatile
55 Zimbabwe 46.6 kt 2023 down 82.9% volatile
56 Ghana 42.35 kt 2023 up 136.6% volatile
57 Gabon 38.18 kt 2023 down 0.3% falling
58 Portugal 34.81 kt 2023 down 46.9% volatile
59 Dominican Republic 30.86 kt 2023 up 293.9% volatile
60 Senegal 27.09 kt 2023 down 84.6% volatile
61 Ukraine 26.58 kt 2023 down 79.8% volatile
62 Sierra Leone 25.63 kt 2023 down 32.1% volatile
63 Guyana 25.5 kt 2023 up 159.7% volatile
64 Bhutan 24.47 kt 2023 up 106.0% volatile
65 Bahamas 17.72 kt 2023 down 78.1% volatile
66 Italy 16.24 kt 2023 up 107.8% volatile
67 Benin 15.68 kt 2023 down 58.9% volatile
67 Côte d'Ivoire 15.68 kt 2023 down 47.7% volatile
69 Uganda 14.57 kt 2023 down 61.3% volatile
70 France 11.59 kt 2023 up 1,168.3% volatile
71 Togo 10.13 kt 2023 up 304.0% volatile
72 Suriname 10.13 kt 2023 up 708.6% volatile
73 Georgia 9.62 kt 2023 up 68.1% volatile
74 Eswatini 8.93 kt 2023 down 69.5% volatile
75 Malaysia 8.28 kt 2023 down 81.9% volatile
76 Timor-Leste 7.77 kt 2023 — volatile
77 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 7.42 kt 2023 down 76.1% volatile
78 Ecuador 7.33 kt 2023 up 267.3% volatile
79 Türkiye 6.75 kt 2023 up 40.5% volatile
80 Syrian Arab Republic 6.63 kt 2023 up 472.7% volatile
81 Japan 6.11 kt 2023 down 7.8% rising
82 Kenya 6.07 kt 2023 up 669.9% volatile
83 Panama 5.83 kt 2023 up 252.1% volatile
84 Tunisia 5.44 kt 2023 down 2.7% volatile
85 Fiji 4.45 kt 2023 — volatile
86 Kazakhstan 3.5 kt 2023 up 886.2% volatile
87 Sudan 3.25 kt 2023 up 148.6% volatile
88 Costa Rica 3.03 kt 2023 down 94.9% volatile
89 Rwanda 2.97 kt 2023 down 38.0% volatile
90 Morocco 2.74 kt 2023 — volatile
91 Uruguay 2.07 kt 2023 up 659.0% volatile
91 Republic of Korea 2.07 kt 2023 down 75.9% volatile
93 New Zealand 1.83 kt 2023 up 17.6% volatile
94 Namibia 1.67 kt 2023 up 512.9% volatile
95 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.55 kt 2023 up 34.2% volatile
96 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1.43 kt 2023 — volatile
97 French Guiana 1.25 kt 2023 up 345.8% volatile
98 Albania 1.03 kt 2023 — volatile
99 Armenia 0.9112 kt 2023 — volatile
100 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.8623 kt 2023 — volatile
101 Equatorial Guinea 0.6904 kt 2023 — volatile
102 New Caledonia 0.5646 kt 2023 — volatile
103 El Salvador 0.5269 kt 2023 down 98.6% volatile
104 Bulgaria 0.3955 kt 2023 up 221.5% volatile
104 Belarus 0.3955 kt 2023 down 91.6% volatile
106 Haiti 0.3927 kt 2023 — volatile
107 Brunei Darussalam 0.2809 kt 2023 — volatile
108 Hungary 0.2725 kt 2023 — volatile
108 Serbia and Montenegro 0.2725 kt 2005 down 80.0% volatile
110 Belgium-Luxembourg 0.2279 kt 1999 up 185.9% volatile
111 Burundi 0.123 kt 2023 down 98.5% volatile
111 Croatia 0.123 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Sri Lanka 0.123 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Latvia 0.123 kt 2023 down 68.9% volatile
111 North Macedonia 0.123 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Romania 0.123 kt 2023 down 97.9% volatile
111 Republic of Moldova 0.123 kt 2023 down 95.7% volatile
118 Mongolia 0.109 kt 2023 down 72.4% 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 (CO2eq) (AR5)
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