Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Biomass burned, dry matter), per square kilometre by country
Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Biomass burned, dry matter) 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
146
Highest
18.99 t per square kilometre
Malawi
Lowest
0 t per square kilometre
Saint Lucia
Median
0.7737 t per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
8,183
What the numbers show
Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Biomass burned, dry matter), per square kilometre is currently reported for 146 countries. The highest value is 18.99 t per square kilometre in Malawi; the lowest is 0 t per square kilometre in Saint Lucia.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.7737 t per square kilometre, and the mean is 2.24 t per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 68 countries rose and 76 fell. The largest increase was in United Arab Emirates (up 4,400.0%), and the largest decrease in Saint Lucia (down 100.0%).
Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Biomass burned, dry matter): full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malawi | 18.99 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 2 | Benin | 18.41 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 106.3% | volatile |
| 3 | Burundi | 18.01 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 276.4% | volatile |
| 4 | Togo | 14.85 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.8% | volatile |
| 5 | Rwanda | 12.92 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.1% | volatile |
| 6 | El Salvador | 12.41 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.6% | rising |
| 7 | Serbia | 10.98 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.1% | falling |
| 8 | Guatemala | 10.78 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.1% | rising |
| 9 | Romania | 9.54 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.7% | falling |
| 10 | Philippines | 8.52 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.9% | flat |
| 11 | Haiti | 8.47 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 40.6% | rising |
| 12 | Hungary | 8.44 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 38.5% | falling |
| 13 | Ukraine | 6.86 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 17.7% | volatile |
| 14 | Nepal | 6.56 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.7% | rising |
| 15 | Nigeria | 6.26 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.1% | volatile |
| 16 | Comoros | 6.07 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 51.7% | volatile |
| 17 | Ghana | 5.71 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.0% | rising |
| 18 | Uganda | 5.49 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.1% | volatile |
| 19 | Bulgaria | 4.92 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.8% | falling |
| 20 | Lesotho | 4.92 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.3% | falling |
| 21 | Croatia | 4.81 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.7% | falling |
| 22 | China | 4.71 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.8% | rising |
| 23 | Burkina Faso | 4.46 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 33.4% | volatile |
| 24 | Kenya | 4.18 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.1% | rising |
| 25 | Poland | 4.1 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 104.4% | volatile |
| 26 | Eswatini | 4.07 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.3% | falling |
| 27 | Bangladesh | 3.82 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 112.0% | volatile |
| 28 | India | 3.61 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.9% | rising |
| 29 | Gambia | 3.46 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.5% | volatile |
| 30 | Honduras | 3.42 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 31 | Mozambique | 3.42 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 56.1% | volatile |
| 32 | Mexico | 3.31 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.3% | flat |
| 33 | Argentina | 2.96 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 66.6% | rising |
| 34 | Slovakia | 2.88 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 37.5% | rising |
| 35 | Brazil | 2.67 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 46.1% | rising |
| 36 | Guinea | 2.65 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.9% | volatile |
| 37 | Austria | 2.57 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 38 | Cameroon | 2.54 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 44.2% | volatile |
| 39 | France | 2.44 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 28.7% | rising |
| 40 | Ethiopia | 2.26 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.7% | rising |
| 41 | Zimbabwe | 2.25 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 31.0% | rising |
| 42 | Angola | 2.24 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 70.9% | volatile |
| 43 | Paraguay | 2.23 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.8% | volatile |
| 44 | Slovenia | 2.2 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.7% | falling |
| 45 | South Africa | 2.13 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 46 | Pakistan | 2.13 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 40.5% | rising |
| 47 | Thailand | 2.09 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.6% | rising |
| 48 | Nicaragua | 2.08 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 40.2% | rising |
| 49 | Albania | 2.03 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.9% | falling |
| 50 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.96 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 47.1% | rising |
| 51 | Zambia | 1.91 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.1% | rising |
| 52 | Belgium | 1.73 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 29.4% | rising |
| 53 | Italy | 1.69 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 45.1% | falling |
| 54 | Cambodia | 1.49 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.1% | volatile |
| 55 | Senegal | 1.43 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 75.6% | volatile |
| 56 | Germany | 1.33 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.3% | volatile |
| 57 | Indonesia | 1.31 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 35.7% | rising |
| 58 | Ecuador | 1.29 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 35.3% | rising |
| 59 | Belize | 1.29 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 40.8% | rising |
| 60 | Mali | 1.24 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 139.2% | volatile |
| 61 | Sri Lanka | 1.23 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.7% | volatile |
| 62 | North Macedonia | 1.15 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 63 | Grenada | 1.15 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.5% | falling |
| 64 | Uruguay | 1.07 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 52.8% | volatile |
| 65 | Georgia | 1.04 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 50.6% | falling |
| 66 | Greece | 1.01 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 38.8% | rising |
| 67 | Egypt | 0.9543 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.8% | rising |
| 68 | Cuba | 0.9152 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 46.5% | rising |
| 69 | Belarus | 0.8868 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.6% | volatile |
| 70 | Dominican Republic | 0.8823 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 48.0% | falling |
| 71 | Myanmar | 0.8676 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.8% | volatile |
| 72 | Czechia | 0.8342 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 33.5% | rising |
| 73 | Portugal | 0.823 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 32.6% | volatile |
| 74 | Panama | 0.7245 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.4% | falling |
| 75 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.5869 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.5% | rising |
| 76 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.5848 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 114.3% | volatile |
| 77 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.5334 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 114.4% | volatile |
| 78 | Spain | 0.4801 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 45.7% | falling |
| 79 | Central African Republic | 0.4431 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 224.0% | volatile |
| 80 | Colombia | 0.4265 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 24.9% | falling |
| 81 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.4094 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.2% | volatile |
| 82 | Switzerland | 0.3967 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 83 | Peru | 0.3538 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.4% | rising |
| 84 | Azerbaijan | 0.3462 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.9% | rising |
| 85 | Madagascar | 0.2546 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 35.5% | rising |
| 86 | Chad | 0.2546 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.9% | volatile |
| 87 | South Sudan | 0.2232 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 56.2% | falling |
| 88 | Sierra Leone | 0.2078 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 21.3% | volatile |
| 89 | Iraq | 0.2046 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 54.9% | volatile |
| 90 | Afghanistan | 0.1947 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.6% | volatile |
| 91 | Morocco | 0.1885 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 52.8% | falling |
| 92 | Denmark | 0.1875 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 41.4% | falling |
| 93 | Jamaica | 0.1855 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.2% | falling |
| 94 | Bhutan | 0.1819 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 70.6% | falling |
| 95 | Lithuania | 0.1799 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 34.5% | volatile |
| 96 | Canada | 0.1728 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 97 | Eritrea | 0.165 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.1% | falling |
| 98 | Somalia | 0.1594 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.1% | falling |
| 99 | Dominica | 0.1533 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.2% | falling |
| 100 | Uzbekistan | 0.1392 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 78.9% | falling |
| 101 | Israel | 0.137 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 39.3% | rising |
| 102 | Vanuatu | 0.1274 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 103 | Maldives | 0.1174 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.8% | volatile |
| 104 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0.1154 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 87.5% | volatile |
| 105 | Gabon | 0.1152 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.9% | volatile |
| 106 | Tajikistan | 0.1001 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.3% | rising |
| 107 | Lebanon | 0.0978 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.3% | volatile |
| 108 | Botswana | 0.0948 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.7% | volatile |
| 109 | Kuwait | 0.0809 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 65.1% | volatile |
| 110 | Costa Rica | 0.0768 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 37.3% | volatile |
| 111 | Yemen | 0.0758 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.5% | rising |
| 112 | New Zealand | 0.0718 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 113 | Namibia | 0.0708 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 169.4% | rising |
| 114 | Kazakhstan | 0.0705 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 76.5% | rising |
| 115 | Chile | 0.0674 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 64.9% | rising |
| 116 | Luxembourg | 0.066 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.0% | falling |
| 117 | Mauritius | 0.0646 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 38.7% | volatile |
| 118 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.05 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 51.1% | rising |
| 119 | Montenegro | 0.0437 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.3% | volatile |
| 120 | Congo | 0.0381 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.4% | volatile |
| 121 | Barbados | 0.0349 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 87.5% | volatile |
| 122 | Armenia | 0.0297 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 72.9% | falling |
| 123 | Mauritania | 0.0194 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 52.0% | volatile |
| 124 | Fiji | 0.0184 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.4% | volatile |
| 125 | New Caledonia | 0.015 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 72.5% | volatile |
| 126 | Guyana | 0.0138 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.4% | rising |
| 127 | United Arab Emirates | 0.0133 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4,400.0% | volatile |
| 128 | Niger | 0.0131 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.4% | volatile |
| 129 | Sudan | 0.0125 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.4% | falling |
| 130 | Puerto Rico | 0.0113 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 138.1% | volatile |
| 131 | Australia | 0.0101 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.3% | falling |
| 132 | Qatar | 0.0084 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.0% | volatile |
| 133 | Bahamas | 0.0082 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.8% | volatile |
| 134 | Saudi Arabia | 0.0055 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 24.2% | volatile |
| 135 | Papua New Guinea | 0.0052 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.7% | volatile |
| 136 | Sweden | 0.0048 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 77.5% | rising |
| 137 | Turkmenistan | 0.0043 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 90.6% | volatile |
| 138 | Oman | 0.0016 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 74.5% | falling |
| 139 | Libya | 0.001 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.2% | rising |
| 140 | Algeria | 0.0008 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 440.5% | volatile |
| 141 | Malaysia | 0.0007 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 142 | Djibouti | 0.0004 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.5% | rising |
| 143 | Japan | 0.0002 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.1% | volatile |
| 144 | Suriname | 0 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 73.7% | volatile |
| 145 | Jordan | 0 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 145 | Saint Lucia | 0 t per square kilometre | 1980 | down 100.0% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Sub-Saharan Africa 1.8 t per square kilometre
- World 1.6 t per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Biomass burned, dry matter) 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.
Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Biomass burned, dry matter) ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Biomass burned, dry matter) 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.