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Land-use change — 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
220
Highest
1.25 million kt
Brazil
Lowest
0 kt
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
Median
0.1404 kt
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
9,129

What the numbers show

Land-use change — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) is currently reported for 220 countries. The highest value is 1.25 million kt in Brazil; the lowest is 0 kt in Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1404 kt, and the mean is 13,328 kt.

Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 84 fell. The largest increase was in Bhutan (up 124,704.0%), and the largest decrease in American Samoa (down 100.0%).

Land-use change — Emissions (CO2eq): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Brazil 1.25 million kt 2023 up 36.9% falling
2 Indonesia 260,842 kt 2023 down 17.2% volatile
3 OECD 148,228 kt 2023 up 134.5% falling
4 Peru 130,705 kt 2023 down 0.3% falling
5 Canada 92,700 kt 2023 — volatile
6 Cambodia 73,001 kt 2023 down 26.7% volatile
7 Myanmar 70,488 kt 2023 down 1.4% falling
8 Cameroon 61,475 kt 2023 up 98.2% rising
9 Argentina 59,018 kt 2023 down 29.6% falling
10 Colombia 56,549 kt 2023 up 29.3% falling
11 Thailand 55,527 kt 2023 up 1,328.9% volatile
12 Malaysia 54,543 kt 2023 up 623.3% falling
13 Mozambique 46,791 kt 2023 down 8.0% rising
14 Nigeria 44,492 kt 2023 down 0.2% falling
15 Angola 42,198 kt 2023 down 15.2% rising
16 Central African Republic 39,957 kt 2023 up 3.9% rising
17 Paraguay 36,878 kt 2023 down 39.6% falling
18 Madagascar 32,978 kt 2023 down 26.9% rising
19 Romania 24,017 kt 2023 up 658.0% volatile
20 Zambia 23,525 kt 2023 down 41.1% rising
21 Liberia 22,909 kt 2023 down 65.1% volatile
22 Mali 21,684 kt 2023 down 23.0% rising
23 Chad 21,238 kt 2023 down 3.3% rising
24 Guinea 19,121 kt 2023 down 2.9% flat
25 Zimbabwe 17,549 kt 2023 down 11.2% falling
26 Burkina Faso 17,147 kt 2023 down 1.7% falling
27 Guatemala 15,973 kt 2023 up 81.0% falling
28 Mexico 15,298 kt 2023 up 2.9% falling
29 Ecuador 12,220 kt 2023 down 40.0% falling
30 Suriname 11,776 kt 2023 up 290.0% volatile
31 Sweden 9,427 kt 2023 down 17.3% rising
32 Sudan 8,895 kt 2023 up 33.9% rising
33 Sudan (former) 8,425 kt 2011 up 11.5% flat
34 Ethiopia 8,149 kt 2023 down 66.9% falling
35 Guyana 8,101 kt 2023 down 34.6% rising
36 Benin 7,518 kt 2023 down 77.3% falling
37 Uganda 7,384 kt 2023 down 49.6% falling
37 Cook Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
37 Montserrat 0 kt 2023 — volatile
37 Niue 0 kt 2023 — volatile
37 Tokelau 0 kt 2023 — flat
38 Malawi 7,253 kt 2023 down 3.2% flat
39 Honduras 6,894 kt 2023 up 17.5% volatile
40 Somalia 6,299 kt 2023 down 81.8% rising
41 Nicaragua 6,013 kt 2023 up 1.8% falling
42 Belize 4,499 kt 2023 down 1.4% flat
43 Gabon 4,363 kt 2023 down 44.2% rising
44 Equatorial Guinea 3,833 kt 2023 up 0.0% flat
45 Bhutan 3,644 kt 2023 up 124,704.0% volatile
46 Sierra Leone 3,485 kt 2023 down 0.3% flat
47 Bangladesh 3,439 kt 2023 up 6.1% volatile
48 French Guiana 3,296 kt 2023 up 26.7% falling
49 Bulgaria 3,288 kt 2023 — flat
50 Japan 2,543 kt 2023 down 35.6% volatile
51 Chile 2,342 kt 2023 down 34.1% falling
52 Senegal 2,217 kt 2023 down 6.6% rising
53 Papua New Guinea 1,978 kt 2023 up 2.4% volatile
54 Niger 1,793 kt 2023 up 34.5% volatile
55 Australia 1,709 kt 2023 down 10.0% volatile
55 Australia and New Zealand 1,709 kt 2023 down 20.5% volatile
57 South Sudan 1,613 kt 2023 up 10.8% rising
58 Panama 1,528 kt 2023 down 34.3% falling
59 Austria 1,448 kt 2023 up 2.9% rising
60 Nepal 1,297 kt 2023 up 8.5% volatile
61 Costa Rica 1,242 kt 2023 down 58.9% volatile
62 Republic of Korea 1,214 kt 2023 down 73.4% rising
63 Belgium-Luxembourg 1,007 kt 1999 unchanged flat
64 Estonia 949.43 kt 2023 — volatile
65 Eritrea 941.58 kt 2023 down 0.0% flat
66 Puerto Rico 926.41 kt 2023 up 868.7% volatile
67 Congo 794.28 kt 2023 down 92.5% rising
68 India 792.05 kt 2023 down 56.1% volatile
69 Mauritania 719.15 kt 2023 down 0.5% flat
70 North Macedonia 686.53 kt 2023 — volatile
71 Sri Lanka 675.47 kt 2023 down 57.0% volatile
72 Guinea-Bissau 640.48 kt 2023 down 33.4% falling
73 Vanuatu 623.25 kt 2023 down 0.2% flat
74 Gambia 601.39 kt 2023 up 12.9% falling
75 Togo 565.95 kt 2023 down 6.2% falling
76 Slovenia 518.77 kt 2023 up 25,741.5% volatile
77 Solomon Islands 493.63 kt 2023 down 0.3% flat
78 Iraq 476.33 kt 2023 down 59.2% volatile
79 Italy 415.43 kt 2023 down 92.9% volatile
80 Norway 353.19 kt 2023 down 18.5% volatile
81 Morocco 331.78 kt 2023 up 22.1% volatile
82 Eswatini 262.16 kt 2023 down 0.4% flat
83 Tunisia 169.78 kt 2023 up 56.6% rising
84 Algeria 132.31 kt 2023 down 0.0% flat
85 Western Sahara 123.08 kt 2023 — volatile
86 Israel 116.81 kt 2023 — volatile
87 Cuba 110.27 kt 2023 up 129.9% volatile
88 Trinidad and Tobago 102 kt 2023 down 0.6% flat
89 Namibia 95.75 kt 2023 down 0.0% volatile
90 Samoa 78.68 kt 2023 down 0.6% flat
91 Seychelles 66.59 kt 2023 up 6.5% rising
92 Ghana 42.35 kt 2023 up 136.6% volatile
93 Croatia 41.74 kt 2023 — volatile
94 Bosnia and Herzegovina 37 kt 2023 — volatile
95 Libya 34.34 kt 2023 up 1.1% flat
96 Brunei Darussalam 28.78 kt 2023 down 80.2% volatile
97 Antigua and Barbuda 22.95 kt 2023 up 0.3% flat
98 Dominica 19.78 kt 2023 down 60.7% volatile
99 Philippines 19.73 kt 2023 up 6.8% volatile
100 Bahamas 16.41 kt 2023 down 79.7% volatile
101 Cyprus 15.53 kt 2023 up 67.6% volatile
102 Fiji 4.45 kt 2023 — volatile
103 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 1.45 kt 2023 down 20.1% rising
104 South Africa 0.6904 kt 2023 down 37.2% volatile
105 New Caledonia 0.5646 kt 2023 down 99.8% volatile
106 Jordan 0.502 kt 2023 — volatile
107 Dominican Republic 0.4095 kt 2023 down 99.9% volatile
108 China (People’s Republic of) 0.2809 kt 2023 unchanged volatile
108 El Salvador 0.2809 kt 2023 down 98.6% volatile
108 China, mainland 0.2809 kt 2023 unchanged volatile
111 Aruba 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Afghanistan 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Albania 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Andorra 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 United Arab Emirates 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Armenia 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 American Samoa 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Azerbaijan 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Burundi 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Belgium 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Bahrain 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Belarus 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Bermuda 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Barbados 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Botswana 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Switzerland 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Comoros 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% falling
111 Cayman Islands 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Czechia 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Germany 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Djibouti 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Denmark 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Egypt 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Spain 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Finland 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 France 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Faroe Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Georgia 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Gibraltar 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Greece 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Grenada 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Greenland 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Guam 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Haiti 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Hungary 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Isle of Man 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Ireland 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Iceland 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Jamaica 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Kazakhstan 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Kenya 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Kiribati 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Kuwait 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Lebanon 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Saint Lucia 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Liechtenstein 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Lesotho 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Lithuania 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Luxembourg 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Latvia 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Monaco 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Maldives 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Marshall Islands 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Malta 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Montenegro 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Mongolia 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Northern Mariana Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Mauritius 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Nauru 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 New Zealand 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Oman 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Pakistan 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Palau 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Poland 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Portugal 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Palestine 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 French Polynesia 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Qatar 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Rwanda 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Saudi Arabia 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Singapore 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 San Marino 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Serbia 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Slovak Republic 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Tajikistan 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Turkmenistan 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Tonga 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Tuvalu 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Ukraine 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Uruguay 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Uzbekistan 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 British Virgin Islands 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 United States Virgin Islands 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Yemen 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Guadeloupe 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Martinique 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Serbia and Montenegro 0 kt 2005 — flat
111 Norfolk Island 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Pitcairn 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 China, Hong Kong SAR 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Russian Federation 0 kt 2023 — volatile
111 Holy See 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 China, Taiwan Province of 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
111 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Réunion 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 China, Macao SAR 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 Netherlands Antilles (former) 0 kt 2010 — flat
111 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0 kt 2023 — flat
111 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.

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Indicator
Land-use change — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5)
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
275 places, 9,129 data points, 1990–2023
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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