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Land-use change — Emissions (CO2), per square kilometre by country

Land-use change — Emissions (CO2) 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
143
Highest
0.4059 kt per square kilometre
Cambodia
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
United States Virgin Islands
Median
0.0054 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
6,685

What the numbers show

Land-use change — Emissions (CO2), per square kilometre is currently reported for 143 countries. The highest value is 0.4059 kt per square kilometre in Cambodia; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in United States Virgin Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0054 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0307 kt per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 32 countries rose and 76 fell. The largest increase was in Slovenia (up 25,748.5%), and the largest decrease in American Samoa (down 100.0%).

Land-use change — Emissions (CO2), per square kilometre (CO2 square): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Cambodia 0.4059 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 25.9% volatile
2 Liberia 0.237 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 65.2% volatile
3 Belize 0.1923 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% flat
4 Malaysia 0.1646 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 871.0% falling
5 Brazil 0.1486 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 36.2% falling
6 Guatemala 0.1481 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 85.3% falling
7 Seychelles 0.1457 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% rising
8 Equatorial Guinea 0.1366 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% flat
9 Cameroon 0.1287 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 101.6% rising
10 Thailand 0.1046 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1,867.4% volatile
11 Puerto Rico 0.1044 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 868.7% volatile
12 Romania 0.1044 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 657.8% volatile
13 Cote d'Ivoire 0.1038 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 33.9% falling
14 Peru 0.102 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.3% falling
15 Indonesia 0.102 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 27.9% volatile
16 Bhutan 0.0955 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
17 Myanmar 0.0945 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.3% falling
18 Paraguay 0.0928 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 39.3% falling
19 Guinea 0.0776 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.6% flat
20 Laos 0.0759 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.6% rising
21 Malawi 0.075 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% flat
22 Suriname 0.0733 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 289.8% volatile
23 Benin 0.0665 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 77.3% falling
24 Burkina Faso 0.0627 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% falling
25 Gambia 0.0594 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.9% rising
26 Madagascar 0.0561 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 26.9% rising
27 Honduras 0.056 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.7% volatile
28 Mozambique 0.0553 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% flat
29 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0521 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% flat
30 Vanuatu 0.0511 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% flat
31 Colombia 0.0508 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 29.3% falling
32 Ecuador 0.0492 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 40.0% falling
33 Nigeria 0.0485 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% flat
34 Sierra Leone 0.0479 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% flat
35 Nicaragua 0.0467 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.1% falling
36 Zimbabwe 0.0454 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.2% falling
37 Central African Republic 0.0402 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 33.2% rising
38 Guyana 0.0383 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 39.1% rising
39 Uganda 0.0368 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 49.5% falling
40 Bulgaria 0.0303 kt per square kilometre 2023 — flat
41 Samoa 0.0283 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% flat
42 North Macedonia 0.0272 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
43 Dominica 0.0263 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 60.8% volatile
44 Bangladesh 0.026 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.6% volatile
45 Angola 0.0259 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% rising
46 Slovenia 0.0258 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 25,748.5% volatile
47 Costa Rica 0.0245 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 57.9% volatile
48 Sweden 0.0231 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 17.3% rising
49 Estonia 0.0222 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
50 Argentina 0.0215 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.0% falling
51 Guinea-Bissau 0.0206 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% falling
52 Panama 0.0205 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 34.4% falling
53 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0199 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% flat
54 Mali 0.0178 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.0% rising
55 Solomon Islands 0.0176 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.3% flat
56 Austria 0.0175 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.9% rising
57 Gabon 0.0168 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 44.4% rising
58 Chad 0.0164 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% rising
59 East Timor 0.0157 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 39.4% falling
60 Vietnam 0.0155 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 138.9% volatile
61 Eswatini 0.0152 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% flat
62 Zambia 0.0132 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 48.3% volatile
63 Senegal 0.0114 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% rising
64 Sri Lanka 0.0109 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 56.5% volatile
65 Canada 0.0105 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
66 Togo 0.0102 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.5% flat
67 Somalia 0.01 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 81.8% rising
68 Eritrea 0.0078 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% falling
69 Mexico 0.0076 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.4% falling
70 Ethiopia 0.0071 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 67.0% falling
71 Japan 0.007 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 35.6% volatile
72 Brunei 0.0054 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 80.4% volatile
73 Israel 0.0054 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
74 Sudan 0.0048 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 33.9% rising
75 Moldova 0.0043 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
76 Papua New Guinea 0.0042 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.0% falling
77 Chile 0.0032 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 34.0% falling
78 United States 0.0021 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
79 Cyprus 0.0017 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 67.6% volatile
80 Congo 0.0015 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 95.1% rising
81 Niger 0.0014 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 34.5% volatile
82 Italy 0.0014 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 92.9% volatile
83 Iraq 0.0011 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 59.2% volatile
84 Tunisia 0.0011 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 56.6% rising
85 Norway 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 18.3% volatile
86 Croatia 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
87 Morocco 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 22.1% volatile
88 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
89 Mauritania 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.5% flat
90 Australia 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.7% volatile
91 Namibia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% volatile
92 Algeria 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% flat
93 Libya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% flat
94 Jordan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Albania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Andorra 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Armenia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 American Samoa 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Azerbaijan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Burundi 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Belgium 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Belarus 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Switzerland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 China 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Comoros 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% falling
95 Cuba 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Cayman Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Czechia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Denmark 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Dominican Republic 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Spain 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Finland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Haiti 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Hungary 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Ireland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Jamaica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Kazakhstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Kenya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Lithuania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Luxembourg 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Latvia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Marshall Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Mongolia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Mauritius 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 New Caledonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Nepal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 New Zealand 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Pakistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Philippines 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Portugal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Russia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Rwanda 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Singapore 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 El Salvador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 South Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Slovakia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 Ukraine 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Uzbekistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
95 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 British Virgin Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
95 United States Virgin Islands 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 0.0232 kt per square kilometre

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Land-use change — Emissions (CO2) 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.

Land-use change — Emissions (CO2) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Land-use change — Emissions (CO2), 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, 6,685 data points, 1990–2023
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Land-use change — Emissions (CO2) 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.