IPCC Agriculture — Emissions Share (N2O) by country

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions indicators disseminates indicators on sectoral shares of total national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as three indicators of emissions intensity: per capita emissions; emissions per value of agricultural production; and emissions per area of agricultural land.

Countries reporting
209
Highest
97.46 %
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Lowest
0 %
Netherlands Antilles (former)
Median
69.88 %
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
8,018

What the numbers show

IPCC Agriculture — Emissions Share (N2O) is currently reported for 209 countries. The highest value is 97.46 % in Micronesia (Federated States of); the lowest is 0 % in Netherlands Antilles (former).

The median across all reporting countries is 69.88 %, and the mean is 64.4 %.

Over the past decade 78 countries rose and 122 fell. The largest increase was in Qatar (up 51.3%), and the largest decrease in Brunei Darussalam (down 73.5%).

IPCC Agriculture — Emissions Share: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Micronesia (Federated States of) 97.46 % 2023 up 0.2% flat
2 Chad 96.73 % 2023 up 4.4% rising
3 Uruguay 94.84 % 2023 down 1.0% flat
4 Niger 94.81 % 2023 down 0.1% flat
5 Mali 94.75 % 2023 up 0.6% rising
6 New Zealand 94.09 % 2023 down 1.2% flat
7 Ireland 93.29 % 2023 up 3.3% flat
8 Paraguay 92.77 % 2023 up 1.4% rising
9 South Sudan 92.76 % 2023 up 0.4% flat
10 Mongolia 92.48 % 2023 down 0.7% flat
11 Mauritania 92.37 % 2023 down 1.8% flat
12 Namibia 91.67 % 2023 down 1.9% falling
12 Niue 91.67 % 2023 unchanged flat
14 Eritrea 91.46 % 2023 down 1.2% flat
15 Guinea 91.04 % 2023 up 5.8% rising
16 Tajikistan 90.99 % 2023 down 1.8% flat
17 Uzbekistan 90.89 % 2023 down 0.7% flat
18 Burkina Faso 90.76 % 2023 down 1.0% rising
19 Kyrgyzstan 90.72 % 2023 up 5.3% flat
20 Argentina 90.68 % 2023 up 2.3% flat
21 Belarus 90.47 % 2023 up 0.4% flat
22 Kenya 90.22 % 2023 up 0.1% flat
23 Sudan 89.94 % 2023 up 0.0% flat
24 Somalia 89.83 % 2023 down 1.5% falling
25 Sudan (former) 89.56 % 2011 down 0.3% flat
26 Timor-Leste 89.13 % 2023 down 0.9% flat
27 Australia and New Zealand 89.01 % 2023 up 6.0% falling
28 Malawi 88.93 % 2023 up 16.9% rising
29 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 88.84 % 2023 up 9.5% rising
30 Latvia 88.79 % 2023 up 0.0% flat
31 Pakistan 88.71 % 2023 up 1.8% flat
32 Australia 88.39 % 2023 up 8.4% falling
33 Estonia 88.12 % 2023 up 2.1% flat
34 Ethiopia 87.93 % 2023 up 1.4% flat
35 Afghanistan 87.51 % 2023 down 2.2% falling
36 Tokelau 87.5 % 2023 down 12.5% rising
37 Brazil 87.32 % 2023 up 0.2% rising
38 Senegal 86.85 % 2023 up 0.0% flat
39 Botswana 86.83 % 2023 down 1.8% falling
40 Nicaragua 86.52 % 2023 down 3.5% flat
41 Iceland 86.48 % 2023 up 0.1% flat
42 Tuvalu 86.27 % 2023 down 1.7% flat
43 Uganda 85.65 % 2023 down 1.7% flat
44 Djibouti 85.56 % 2023 up 0.7% flat
45 Vanuatu 85.14 % 2023 down 8.9% falling
46 Benin 84.86 % 2023 up 3.6% flat
47 Burundi 84.34 % 2023 up 5.7% rising
48 Guinea-Bissau 84.32 % 2023 up 22.8% rising
49 Colombia 84.1 % 2023 up 0.7% flat
50 Bulgaria 84.03 % 2023 up 2.4% rising
51 United Republic of Tanzania 83.88 % 2023 up 11.3% flat
52 Togo 83.61 % 2023 up 0.9% flat
53 Turkmenistan 83.35 % 2023 up 3.8% rising
54 Azerbaijan 82.73 % 2023 down 1.1% flat
55 Dominican Republic 82.38 % 2023 down 1.7% flat
56 Zimbabwe 82.24 % 2023 up 4.6% flat
57 Peru 82 % 2023 down 2.1% flat
58 Hungary 81.95 % 2023 down 1.8% rising
59 Madagascar 81.82 % 2023 down 2.9% falling
60 Denmark 81.77 % 2023 down 0.8% rising
61 Panama 81.67 % 2023 down 2.2% falling
62 Bangladesh 81.45 % 2023 up 0.6% falling
63 Papua New Guinea 81.41 % 2023 down 1.6% rising
64 Costa Rica 81.1 % 2023 up 4.4% flat
65 Gambia 80.91 % 2023 down 4.2% rising
66 Republic of Moldova 80.82 % 2023 down 0.5% falling
67 Melanesia 80.67 % 2023 down 3.8% rising
68 Mexico 80.52 % 2023 up 4.2% flat
69 Indonesia 79.95 % 2023 up 1.0% rising
70 Cameroon 79.61 % 2023 down 0.3% rising
71 Ukraine 79.59 % 2023 up 14.1% rising
72 Ghana 79.52 % 2023 up 0.2% flat
73 Sierra Leone 79.04 % 2023 up 1.8% rising
74 Morocco 78.69 % 2023 down 4.1% falling
75 France 77.8 % 2023 down 1.0% rising
76 Serbia 77.13 % 2023 down 5.3% flat
77 Guyana 76.95 % 2023 down 6.3% rising
78 Dominica 76.87 % 2023 down 5.8% falling
79 Ecuador 76.79 % 2023 down 9.4% falling
80 Côte d'Ivoire 76.72 % 2023 up 3.1% flat
81 Rwanda 76.23 % 2023 down 5.6% rising
82 Tonga 76.09 % 2023 down 6.9% flat
83 Kazakhstan 75.88 % 2023 up 3.1% flat
84 El Salvador 75.67 % 2023 down 6.4% flat
85 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 75.64 % 2023 up 0.9% rising
86 Albania 75.6 % 2023 down 8.4% falling
87 Polynesia 75.56 % 2023 down 8.9% flat
88 Serbia and Montenegro 75.07 % 2005 down 2.2% flat
89 Eswatini 74.76 % 2023 down 2.6% flat
90 Haiti 74.63 % 2023 down 1.9% falling
91 Armenia 74.29 % 2023 down 13.0% falling
92 Lesotho 74.25 % 2023 down 2.7% falling
93 Honduras 74.21 % 2023 down 3.0% flat
94 Fiji 73.7 % 2023 down 14.5% falling
95 India 73.57 % 2023 down 1.4% falling
96 Thailand 72.74 % 2023 up 9.6% falling
97 Guatemala 71.91 % 2023 down 7.4% flat
98 Samoa 71.76 % 2023 down 12.4% falling
99 Angola 71.17 % 2023 up 16.5% flat
100 Cuba 71.15 % 2023 down 5.9% flat
101 Congo 71.07 % 2023 down 3.5% rising
102 Grenada 70.55 % 2023 up 3.9% flat
103 Switzerland 70.3 % 2023 up 0.4% flat
104 Canada 69.9 % 2023 down 11.0% rising
105 OECD 69.88 % 2023 up 3.5% rising
106 Nigeria 69.82 % 2023 down 0.3% flat
107 Greece 69.67 % 2023 down 4.0% rising
108 Türkiye 69.31 % 2023 down 0.2% falling
109 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 68.43 % 2023 down 0.4% rising
110 Sweden 68.31 % 2023 up 4.7% rising
111 Spain 67.92 % 2023 down 3.1% rising
112 Belize 67.79 % 2023 up 10.5% rising
113 Caribbean 67.73 % 2023 down 4.4% flat
114 Cambodia 67.61 % 2023 up 40.2% rising
115 Germany 67.45 % 2023 down 1.6% rising
116 Tunisia 67.3 % 2023 down 5.1% flat
117 Romania 67.23 % 2023 up 5.3% rising
118 Viet Nam 66.99 % 2023 down 14.1% falling
119 Nepal 66.48 % 2023 down 6.5% flat
120 Barbados 66.3 % 2023 down 4.3% falling
121 Slovenia 66.24 % 2023 up 3.0% falling
122 Poland 65.47 % 2023 up 4.1% falling
123 Suriname 65.2 % 2023 down 1.9% rising
124 Jamaica 65.16 % 2023 up 0.7% falling
125 Lithuania 64.95 % 2023 up 5.6% falling
126 Syrian Arab Republic 64.61 % 2023 up 2.5% falling
127 North Macedonia 64.6 % 2023 down 9.4% falling
127 Yemen 64.6 % 2023 down 0.2% flat
129 Algeria 64.42 % 2023 up 1.9% falling
130 Italy 64.2 % 2023 down 0.1% rising
131 Libya 63.8 % 2023 down 1.2% falling
132 Luxembourg 63.03 % 2023 up 7.0% rising
133 Finland 62.96 % 2023 up 11.1% flat
134 Sri Lanka 62.94 % 2023 down 3.6% falling
135 China, mainland 62.57 % 2023 down 10.8% falling
136 Portugal 62.13 % 2023 down 0.6% flat
137 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 62.11 % 2023 down 25.7% rising
138 China 62.1 % 2023 down 10.8% falling
139 Austria 61.89 % 2023 down 0.0% rising
140 Malaysia 61.74 % 2023 down 8.4% falling
141 Norway 61.34 % 2023 up 1.2% rising
142 Comoros 60.02 % 2023 down 7.1% falling
143 Cabo Verde 59.85 % 2023 down 13.9% falling
144 Myanmar 59.18 % 2023 down 10.5% flat
145 Saint Lucia 58.99 % 2023 down 9.5% falling
146 Russian Federation 58.53 % 2023 up 6.3% falling
147 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 57.83 % 2023 down 24.2% rising
148 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 56.8 % 2023 down 8.8% falling
149 Philippines 56.73 % 2023 down 26.0% falling
150 Zambia 56.53 % 2023 up 19.0% falling
151 Egypt 56.32 % 2023 down 5.9% falling
152 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 56.05 % 2023 up 2.9% falling
153 Saint Kitts and Nevis 55.56 % 2023 up 1.4% falling
153 Sao Tome and Principe 55.56 % 2023 down 3.0% rising
155 Mauritius 53.24 % 2023 down 4.9% falling
156 Montenegro 52.88 % 2023 down 12.4% falling
157 Cyprus 51.63 % 2023 down 15.2% falling
158 Chile 51.04 % 2023 down 10.1% falling
159 Iraq 50.82 % 2023 down 8.8% falling
160 Oman 49.39 % 2023 down 1.7% falling
161 Antigua and Barbuda 49.21 % 2023 down 13.5% falling
162 Croatia 48.91 % 2023 down 0.6% falling
163 Lebanon 48.58 % 2023 up 1.2% falling
164 Lao People's Democratic Republic 48.21 % 2023 down 21.3% rising
165 Georgia 47.64 % 2023 down 6.6% falling
166 Mozambique 46.5 % 2023 up 35.1% falling
167 Democratic Republic of the Congo 46.4 % 2023 up 21.7% flat
168 Cook Islands 45.56 % 2023 down 22.0% falling
169 Czechia 45.21 % 2023 down 2.0% rising
170 Kiribati 44.53 % 2023 down 12.5% flat
171 Bosnia and Herzegovina 44.17 % 2023 down 42.4% falling
172 Solomon Islands 43.93 % 2023 down 7.3% falling
173 Gabon 43.5 % 2023 up 4.9% flat
174 Saudi Arabia 43.25 % 2023 up 26.1% falling
175 Liberia 43.15 % 2023 down 4.8% rising
176 Jordan 43.06 % 2023 up 14.1% falling
177 Nauru 42.86 % 2023 down 19.0% falling
178 Malta 41.83 % 2023 down 6.9% falling
179 Japan 38.64 % 2023 up 10.9% rising
180 Slovakia 36.88 % 2023 down 6.7% falling
181 Belgium-Luxembourg 35.52 % 1999 down 16.9% falling
182 Bhutan 35.51 % 2023 down 19.0% falling
183 Republic of Korea 34.18 % 2023 up 0.7% falling
184 Micronesia 34.03 % 2023 down 2.0% rising
185 Israel 33.66 % 2023 down 7.0% flat
186 Belgium 32.6 % 2023 down 1.0% flat
187 Qatar 28.98 % 2023 up 51.3% falling
188 United Arab Emirates 28.66 % 2023 up 5.2% falling
189 Kuwait 28.42 % 2023 up 16.0% rising
190 China, Taiwan Province of 27.67 % 2023 down 15.8% flat
191 Bahamas 24.54 % 2023 down 6.5% rising
192 Equatorial Guinea 21.99 % 2023 up 14.5% falling
193 Brunei Darussalam 18.12 % 2023 down 73.5% falling
194 Trinidad and Tobago 12.65 % 2023 down 20.6% rising
195 Seychelles 11.41 % 2023 down 7.7% volatile
196 Bahrain 8.69 % 2023 down 50.7% falling
197 China, Hong Kong SAR 5.06 % 2023 up 34.2% rising
198 China, Macao SAR 4.81 % 2023 down 23.4% falling
199 Maldives 2.31 % 2023 down 33.8% volatile
200 Singapore 1.09 % 2023 down 21.0% rising
201 Palau 0.19 % 2023 down 71.6% volatile
202 Aruba 0 % 2023 volatile
202 Marshall Islands 0 % 2023 flat
202 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 % 2023 volatile
202 British Virgin Islands 0 % 2023 flat
202 Mayotte 0 % 1999 flat
202 Anguilla 0 % 2023 flat
202 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0 % 2023 flat
202 Netherlands Antilles (former) 0 % 2010 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
IPCC Agriculture — Emissions Share (N2O)
Unit
%
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
243 places, 8,018 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions indicators disseminates indicators on sectoral shares of total national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as three indicators of emissions intensity: per capita emissions; emissions per value of agricultural production; and emissions per area of agricultural land.