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Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Emissions CH4), per square kilometre by country

Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Emissions CH4) 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
145
Highest
0.0001 kt per square kilometre
Malawi
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Suriname
Median
0 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
8,183

What the numbers show

Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Emissions CH4), per square kilometre is currently reported for 145 countries. The highest value is 0.0001 kt per square kilometre in Malawi; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Suriname.

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

Over the past decade 65 countries rose and 72 fell. The largest increase was in United Arab Emirates (up 2,500.0%), and the largest decrease in Barbados (down 100.0%).

Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Emissions CH4), per square: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Malawi 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.8% rising
2 Benin 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 106.3% volatile
3 Burundi 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 276.4% volatile
4 Togo 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.8% volatile
5 Rwanda 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.0% volatile
6 El Salvador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% rising
7 Serbia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.1% falling
8 Guatemala 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 34.1% rising
9 Romania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.7% falling
10 Philippines 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.9% flat
11 Haiti 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 40.6% rising
12 Hungary 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 38.5% falling
13 Ukraine 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 17.7% volatile
14 Nepal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.7% rising
15 Nigeria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.1% volatile
16 Comoros 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 51.7% volatile
17 Ghana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 27.0% rising
18 Uganda 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% volatile
19 Bulgaria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 24.8% falling
20 Lesotho 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 42.3% falling
21 Croatia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.7% falling
22 China 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.8% rising
23 Burkina Faso 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 33.4% volatile
24 Kenya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.1% rising
25 Poland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 104.4% volatile
26 Eswatini 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.3% falling
27 Bangladesh 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 112.0% volatile
28 India 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.9% rising
29 Gambia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.5% volatile
30 Honduras 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.3% rising
31 Mozambique 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 56.1% volatile
32 Mexico 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% flat
33 Argentina 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 66.6% rising
34 Slovakia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 37.5% rising
35 Brazil 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 46.1% rising
36 Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.9% volatile
37 Austria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% rising
38 Cameroon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 44.2% volatile
39 France 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 28.7% rising
40 Ethiopia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% rising
41 Zimbabwe 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 31.0% rising
42 Angola 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 70.9% volatile
43 Paraguay 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.8% volatile
44 Slovenia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.8% falling
45 South Africa 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.0% falling
46 Pakistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 40.5% rising
47 Thailand 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.6% rising
48 Nicaragua 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 40.2% rising
49 Albania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.8% falling
50 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 47.1% rising
51 Zambia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 42.1% rising
52 Belgium 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.4% rising
53 Italy 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 45.1% falling
54 Cambodia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.1% volatile
55 Senegal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 75.6% volatile
56 Germany 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% volatile
57 Indonesia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 35.7% rising
58 Ecuador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 35.3% rising
59 Belize 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 41.0% rising
60 Mali 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 139.2% volatile
61 Sri Lanka 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.8% volatile
62 Grenada 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
63 North Macedonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.1% falling
64 Uruguay 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 52.8% volatile
65 Georgia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 50.6% falling
66 Greece 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 38.8% rising
67 Egypt 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.8% rising
68 Cuba 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 46.5% rising
69 Belarus 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.6% volatile
70 Dominican Republic 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 47.9% falling
71 Myanmar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 28.8% volatile
72 Czechia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 33.5% rising
73 Portugal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 32.5% volatile
74 Panama 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.4% falling
75 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 22.5% rising
76 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 113.2% volatile
77 Guinea-Bissau 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 114.3% volatile
78 Spain 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 45.7% falling
79 Central African Republic 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 224.0% volatile
80 Colombia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 24.9% falling
81 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.0% volatile
82 Switzerland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.2% rising
83 Peru 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.4% rising
84 Azerbaijan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 25.9% rising
85 Madagascar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 35.5% rising
86 Chad 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.9% volatile
87 South Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 56.2% falling
88 Sierra Leone 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 21.4% volatile
89 Iraq 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 54.9% volatile
90 Afghanistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.6% volatile
91 Morocco 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 52.8% falling
92 Denmark 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 41.3% falling
93 Jamaica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.4% falling
94 Bhutan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 70.7% falling
95 Lithuania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 34.4% volatile
96 Canada 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% rising
97 Eritrea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% falling
98 Somalia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.1% falling
99 Dominica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
100 Uzbekistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 78.9% falling
101 Israel 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 39.4% rising
102 Vanuatu 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.4% rising
103 Maldives 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% volatile
104 Gabon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.9% volatile
105 Tajikistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% rising
106 Lebanon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.5% volatile
107 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
108 Botswana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 18.7% volatile
109 Antigua and Barbuda 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
110 Kuwait 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 62.5% volatile
111 Costa Rica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 37.3% volatile
112 Yemen 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.5% rising
113 Luxembourg 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
114 New Zealand 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.4% rising
115 Namibia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 169.3% rising
116 Kazakhstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 76.5% rising
117 Chile 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 64.9% rising
118 Mauritius 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
119 Montenegro 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% volatile
120 Congo 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.5% volatile
121 Armenia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 72.4% falling
122 Mauritania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 52.1% volatile
123 Fiji 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 18.2% volatile
124 New Caledonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 74.1% volatile
125 Guyana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.8% rising
126 United Arab Emirates 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2,500.0% volatile
127 Niger 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.4% volatile
128 Puerto Rico 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 200.0% volatile
129 Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.5% falling
130 Australia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.3% falling
131 Qatar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.0% volatile
132 Bahamas 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% volatile
133 Saudi Arabia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 24.2% volatile
134 Papua New Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.5% volatile
135 Sweden 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 76.7% rising
136 Turkmenistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 90.5% volatile
137 Oman 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 74.5% falling
138 Libya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.5% rising
139 Algeria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 440.0% volatile
140 Malaysia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
141 Japan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% volatile
142 Barbados 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
142 Jordan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
142 Saint Lucia 0 kt per square kilometre 1980 down 100.0% rising
142 Suriname 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile

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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Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Emissions CH4) 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 (Emissions CH4) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Emissions CH4), per square kilometre
Unit
kt per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
152 places, 8,183 data points, 1961–2023
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Maize (corn) — Burning crop residues (Emissions CH4) 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.