Manure applied to Soils — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC by country

Countries reporting

Highest

5,287 kt

Russian Federation

Lowest

9.93 kt

Malta

Median

393.5 kt

Years covered

1990–2020

Data points

1,349

What the numbers show

Manure applied to Soils — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 40 countries. The highest value is 5,287 kt in Russian Federation; the lowest is 9.93 kt in Malta.

The median across all reporting countries is 393.5 kt, and the mean is 807.08 kt.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 532.

Over the past decade 17 countries rose and 23 fell. The largest increase was in Türkiye (up 73.6%), and the largest decrease in Czechia (down 30.8%).

Manure applied to Soils — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Russian Federation	5,287 kt	2020	up 7.2%	falling
2	Türkiye	3,624 kt	2020	up 73.6%	rising
3	Germany	2,559 kt	2020	down 0.4%	falling
4	France	2,298 kt	2020	down 4.5%	falling
5	Italy	1,954 kt	2020	up 4.9%	falling
6	Spain	1,922 kt	2020	up 12.4%	rising
7	Poland	1,750 kt	2020	up 9.1%	falling
8	Canada	1,356 kt	2020	up 7.7%	rising
9	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	1,046 kt	2020	up 6.3%	falling
10	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1,027 kt	2020	down 3.3%	falling
11	Romania	885.59 kt	2020	down 7.7%	falling
12	Denmark	885.41 kt	2020	up 1.3%	flat
13	Ireland	757.8 kt	2020	up 16.4%	rising
14	Japan	745.39 kt	2020	down 5.0%	falling
15	Kazakhstan	633.35 kt	2020	up 20.7%	flat
16	Belarus	569.98 kt	2020	down 1.9%	falling
17	Austria	547.17 kt	2020	down 4.2%	falling
18	Ukraine	542.04 kt	2020	down 14.2%	falling
19	Hungary	407.69 kt	2020	up 1.8%	falling
20	Belgium	398.07 kt	2020	down 15.8%	falling
21	Australia	388.94 kt	2020	up 20.6%	rising
22	Switzerland	339.12 kt	2020	down 5.3%	falling
23	Finland	295.21 kt	2020	down 3.5%	rising
24	Sweden	283.95 kt	2020	down 6.1%	falling
25	Norway	231.83 kt	2020	up 1.5%	rising
26	Czechia	226.77 kt	2020	down 30.8%	falling
27	Greece	204.63 kt	2020	down 11.7%	falling
28	Portugal	199.4 kt	2020	up 12.0%	falling
29	Bulgaria	158.06 kt	2020	down 9.6%	falling
30	Lithuania	131.96 kt	2020	down 3.2%	falling
31	Croatia	105.45 kt	2020	down 16.3%	falling
32	Slovenia	100.31 kt	2020	down 1.6%	falling
33	Slovakia	95.97 kt	2020	down 15.2%	falling
34	Estonia	70.86 kt	2020	up 11.2%	flat
35	New Zealand	67.78 kt	2020	up 25.3%	rising
36	Cyprus	60.54 kt	2020	down 2.3%	flat
37	Latvia	53.61 kt	2020	down 25.2%	falling
38	Luxembourg	36.44 kt	2020	up 9.3%	rising
39	Iceland	27.58 kt	2020	down 6.8%	falling
40	Malta	9.93 kt	2020	down 7.5%	falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

World 44,624 kt
Annex I countries 43,991 kt
European Union (27) 17,443 kt
United States of America 12,341 kt
Non-Annex I countries 633.35 kt

About this data

Indicator: Manure applied to Soils — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC
Unit: kt
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 45 places, 1,349 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed: 13 August 2026

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