Manure Management — Emissions (CH4), per square kilometre by country

Manure Management — 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
170
Highest
0.007 kt per square kilometre
Tuvalu
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Equatorial Guinea
Median
0.0001 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,815

What the numbers show

Manure Management — Emissions (CH4), per square kilometre is currently reported for 170 countries. The highest value is 0.007 kt per square kilometre in Tuvalu; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Equatorial Guinea.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0001 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0002 kt per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6,669.

Over the past decade 99 countries rose and 71 fell. The largest increase was in Malawi (up 160.5%), and the largest decrease in Botswana (down 51.2%).

Manure Management — Emissions (CH4), per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Tuvalu 0.007 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
2 Malta 0.0025 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 24.7% rising
3 Denmark 0.0023 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.0% rising
4 Nauru 0.0021 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.9% rising
5 Belgium 0.0019 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.8% falling
6 Tonga 0.0017 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
7 Ireland 0.001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.8% rising
8 Luxembourg 0.0009 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.8% flat
9 Germany 0.0008 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 18.2% falling
10 Bangladesh 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.1% rising
11 Switzerland 0.0007 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.7% falling
12 Spain 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% rising
13 Pakistan 0.0006 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 42.3% volatile
14 Samoa 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 42.2% rising
15 Italy 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.7% falling
16 France 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.4% falling
17 New Zealand 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% rising
18 Portugal 0.0005 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.5% rising
19 Austria 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.4% falling
20 India 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising
21 Barbados 0.0004 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% rising
22 Poland 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% falling
23 Serbia 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.9% falling
24 Albania 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 33.8% rising
25 Slovenia 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.8% falling
26 Kiribati 0.0003 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.7% rising
27 Philippines 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.1% rising
28 Belarus 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.7% falling
29 Nepal 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.2% rising
30 Hungary 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% falling
31 Czechia 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.2% falling
32 Dominican Republic 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 23.6% rising
33 Romania 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 20.4% falling
34 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.2% rising
35 Mauritius 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.5% volatile
36 Croatia 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 25.4% falling
37 Lithuania 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 27.7% falling
38 Uzbekistan 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 44.1% rising
39 Haiti 0.0002 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.0% rising
40 Fiji 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.7% rising
41 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 32.0% falling
42 North Macedonia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.5% falling
43 Malawi 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 160.5% volatile
44 Burundi 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 97.5% volatile
45 Thailand 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.5% rising
46 Myanmar 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 43.8% volatile
47 French Polynesia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.6% rising
48 China 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.1% rising
49 Vanuatu 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 25.1% rising
50 Cambodia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.4% rising
51 Uganda 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 30.7% volatile
52 Greece 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 20.6% falling
53 Lebanon 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.7% rising
54 Slovakia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.9% falling
55 Japan 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% rising
56 Cyprus 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.9% rising
57 Montenegro 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.0% falling
58 Ukraine 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 38.3% falling
59 Estonia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.7% falling
60 Qatar 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 139.8% volatile
61 Latvia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 14.1% falling
62 Israel 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising
63 Rwanda 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.6% volatile
64 Sri Lanka 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% falling
65 Bahrain 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 30.8% rising
66 Tajikistan 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.4% rising
67 Ethiopia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 35.6% rising
68 Grenada 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 22.7% rising
69 Indonesia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 38.2% rising
70 Saint Lucia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.1% rising
71 Uruguay 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.1% rising
72 Singapore 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 18.7% volatile
73 Kuwait 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 38.1% volatile
74 Jamaica 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
75 Guatemala 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.0% rising
76 Cuba 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 4.4% falling
77 Chad 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 92.7% volatile
78 El Salvador 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 6.9% flat
79 Burkina Faso 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.1% volatile
80 Togo 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 44.0% volatile
81 Nigeria 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 22.8% volatile
82 Kenya 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 29.3% rising
83 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 8.7% rising
84 Costa Rica 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 42.3% rising
85 Papua New Guinea 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.8% rising
86 Nicaragua 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.6% rising
87 Bulgaria 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.7% falling
88 Azerbaijan 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.8% rising
89 Senegal 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 26.5% rising
90 Guinea-Bissau 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.0% rising
91 Gambia 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.0% rising
92 Palestine 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.3% flat
93 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 25.1% volatile
94 Kyrgyzstan 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 24.1% rising
95 Sweden 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.7% falling
96 Finland 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 17.4% falling
97 Benin 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 55.1% rising
98 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 19.6% rising
99 Comoros 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.1% rising
100 Malaysia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.4% rising
101 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.8% rising
102 Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 56.8% volatile
103 Somalia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.4% rising
104 Mexico 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 12.4% rising
105 Puerto Rico 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 29.3% falling
106 United Arab Emirates 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 29.1% volatile
107 Colombia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 44.1% rising
108 Honduras 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% rising
109 Eswatini 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.4% rising
110 Paraguay 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.5% rising
111 Norway 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.8% falling
112 New Caledonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.0% rising
113 Brazil 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 14.4% rising
114 Afghanistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.4% rising
115 Sierra Leone 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 19.1% volatile
116 Panama 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.6% rising
117 Ghana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 48.4% volatile
118 Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.6% flat
119 Armenia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.2% rising
120 Turkmenistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.6% rising
121 Dominica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
122 Ecuador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 17.9% rising
123 South Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
124 Eritrea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
125 Seychelles 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 69.8% rising
126 Solomon Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% rising
127 Faroe Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% falling
128 Tunisia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.9% rising
129 Djibouti 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 2.5% rising
130 Morocco 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.0% rising
131 Mali 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 51.0% volatile
132 Niger 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 39.8% rising
133 Georgia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 23.1% falling
134 Argentina 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.4% flat
135 Bhutan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.0% rising
136 Canada 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.5% rising
137 Cameroon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.2% rising
138 Zimbabwe 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% rising
139 Australia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.9% falling
140 Iraq 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 28.2% flat
141 Madagascar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.5% rising
142 Peru 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.8% rising
143 Jordan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 27.9% rising
144 South Africa 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 10.3% rising
145 Mongolia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 63.1% rising
146 Yemen 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% rising
147 Lesotho 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.0% rising
148 Iceland 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% rising
149 Egypt 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 18.7% rising
150 Central African Republic 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.7% volatile
151 Mauritania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% rising
152 Zambia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.2% rising
153 Chile 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 4.1% rising
154 Kazakhstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.3% falling
155 Angola 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.0% rising
156 Belize 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.3% rising
157 Bahamas 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% rising
158 Oman 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 18.5% volatile
159 Liberia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 3.4% rising
160 Saudi Arabia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 80.4% volatile
161 Mozambique 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.9% rising
162 Namibia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 29.2% rising
163 Algeria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 21.7% rising
164 Guyana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 8.8% rising
165 Botswana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 51.2% flat
166 Congo 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.6% volatile
167 Libya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.8% rising
168 Gabon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 4.1% rising
169 Suriname 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.7% rising
170 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.2% rising

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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Manure Management — 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.

Manure Management — Emissions (CH4) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Manure Management — 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
171 places, 9,815 data points, 1961–2023
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Manure Management — 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.