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Forest fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5), per square kilometre by country

Forest fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) 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
159
Highest
0.0253 kt per square kilometre
Central African Republic
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Samoa
Median
0 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
6,681

What the numbers show

Forest fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5), per square kilometre is currently reported for 159 countries. The highest value is 0.0253 kt per square kilometre in Central African Republic; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Samoa.

The median across all reporting countries is 0 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0012 kt per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 42 countries rose and 60 fell. The largest increase was in Greece (up 14,801.5%), and the largest decrease in Austria (down 100.0%).

Forest fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5), per square kilometre (CO2eq): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Central African Republic 0.0253 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.1% rising
2 Laos 0.0245 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 156.3% volatile
3 Zambia 0.0201 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 37.1% rising
4 Mozambique 0.018 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 46.9% rising
5 Myanmar 0.0148 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.2% flat
6 Cambodia 0.0113 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 66.2% falling
7 Nepal 0.0094 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.8% volatile
8 Angola 0.0081 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 43.4% falling
9 Honduras 0.006 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 68.8% volatile
10 Thailand 0.0059 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 96.5% rising
11 Belize 0.005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 26.1% volatile
12 Nicaragua 0.0033 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 257.2% volatile
13 South Sudan 0.0026 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.1% rising
14 Chile 0.0022 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2,779.0% volatile
15 Malawi 0.0022 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 59.0% rising
16 Guinea-Bissau 0.0022 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 84.1% volatile
17 Bahamas 0.0018 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 78.1% volatile
18 Vietnam 0.0017 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 24.5% falling
19 Canada 0.0016 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1,036.1% volatile
20 Cuba 0.0014 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 176.8% volatile
21 Cameroon 0.0013 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 25.9% volatile
22 Madagascar 0.0013 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 25.7% rising
23 Brazil 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 198.9% falling
24 Greece 0.0012 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14,801.5% volatile
25 India 0.0011 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 48.7% volatile
26 Mexico 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 31.4% volatile
27 Guatemala 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 61.8% volatile
28 Congo 0.0008 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% falling
29 Ethiopia 0.0008 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.8% volatile
30 Liberia 0.0008 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.1% volatile
31 Indonesia 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 71.1% volatile
32 Bhutan 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 105.8% volatile
33 Dominican Republic 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 294.8% volatile
34 East Timor 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
35 Eswatini 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 69.5% volatile
36 Chad 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 55.1% volatile
37 Portugal 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 46.9% volatile
38 Nigeria 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 22.8% volatile
39 Bangladesh 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 85.5% volatile
40 Paraguay 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 74.5% volatile
41 Sierra Leone 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 32.1% volatile
42 Spain 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 935.1% volatile
43 Fiji 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
44 Papua New Guinea 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 48.2% volatile
45 Guinea 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 83.6% volatile
46 Togo 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 304.0% volatile
47 Ghana 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 136.6% volatile
48 Philippines 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 43.3% volatile
49 United States 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
50 Colombia 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% volatile
51 Russia 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.8% volatile
52 Gabon 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.3% falling
53 Senegal 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 84.6% volatile
54 Benin 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 58.9% volatile
55 Georgia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 68.1% volatile
56 Australia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 67.3% volatile
57 Rwanda 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 35.6% volatile
58 Guyana 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 142.1% volatile
59 Zimbabwe 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 82.9% volatile
60 Peru 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.1% volatile
61 South Africa 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 44.5% volatile
62 Panama 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 252.8% volatile
63 Argentina 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 83.2% volatile
64 Uganda 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 61.3% volatile
65 China 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 56.8% falling
66 Suriname 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 708.6% volatile
67 Costa Rica 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 94.8% volatile
68 Italy 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 107.8% volatile
69 Brunei 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
70 Cote d'Ivoire 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 47.7% volatile
71 Ukraine 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 79.8% volatile
72 Albania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
73 Syria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 472.7% volatile
74 Tunisia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.7% volatile
75 Algeria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 321.5% volatile
76 Armenia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
77 New Caledonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
78 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 34.2% volatile
79 Ecuador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 267.3% volatile
80 El Salvador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 98.6% volatile
81 Malaysia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 81.9% volatile
82 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
83 France 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1,168.3% volatile
84 Japan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.8% rising
85 Haiti 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
86 Uruguay 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 659.0% volatile
87 Kenya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 654.3% volatile
88 Turkey 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 40.5% volatile
89 New Zealand 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.6% volatile
90 Morocco 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
91 North Macedonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
92 Burundi 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 98.5% volatile
93 Moldova 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 95.7% volatile
94 Bulgaria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 221.5% volatile
95 United Kingdom 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
96 Hungary 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
97 Croatia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
98 Namibia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 512.9% volatile
99 Sri Lanka 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
100 Latvia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 68.9% volatile
101 Belarus 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 91.6% volatile
102 Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 148.6% volatile
103 Kazakhstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 886.2% volatile
104 Romania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 97.9% volatile
105 Mongolia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 72.5% volatile
106 Afghanistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Austria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
106 Azerbaijan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
106 Belgium 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Burkina Faso 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Botswana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Switzerland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Comoros 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
106 Cayman Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Cyprus 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Czechia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
106 Germany 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
106 Denmark 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Egypt 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Eritrea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Estonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
106 Finland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
106 Gibraltar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Gambia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Grenada 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Isle of Man 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Ireland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Iraq 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Israel 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Jamaica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Lebanon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Lesotho 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Lithuania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Mali 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
106 Montenegro 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Mauritania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Mauritius 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Niger 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Norway 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Pakistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Poland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
106 Puerto Rico 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 French Polynesia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Singapore 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Solomon Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Somalia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Serbia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Slovakia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Slovenia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
106 Sweden 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Tajikistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Turkmenistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
106 Uzbekistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 United States Virgin Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Vanuatu 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
106 Samoa 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile

Regions and income groups

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

  • World 0.0012 kt per square kilometre

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Forest fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) 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.

Forest fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Forest fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5), per square kilometre
Unit
kt per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
201 places, 6,681 data points, 1990–2023
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Forest fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) 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.