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Methane emissions, per unit of GDP in Malawi

Malawi: Methane emissions, per unit of GDP was 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP in 2024. ▼ Falling

Latest (2024)
0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP
Change on year
up 20.2%
World rank
25th
of 193 countries
All-time high
0.0019 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP
in 1994
All-time low
0.0004 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP
in 2011
Years of data
45
1980–2024

Methane emissions, per unit of GDP in Malawi, 1980–2024

0.0010.0010.0020.0021980200220241980: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1981: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1982: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1983: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1984: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1985: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1986: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1987: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1988: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1989: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1990: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1991: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1992: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1993: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1994: 0.002 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1995: 0.002 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1996: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1997: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1998: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP1999: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2000: 0.002 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2001: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2002: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2003: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2004: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2005: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2006: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2007: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2008: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2009: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2010: 0 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2011: 0 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2012: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2013: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2014: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2015: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2016: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2017: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2018: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2019: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2020: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2021: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2022: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2023: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP2024: 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP

Source: Statizoid (derived). Measured in tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP.

Analysis

Malawi recorded 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP for methane emissions, per unit of gdp in 2024.

The figure is up 20.2% on the previous year and up 14.4% over ten years.

Over the whole period, methane emissions, per unit of gdp in Malawi peaked at 0.0019 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP in 1994 and was at its lowest, 0.0004 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP, in 2011.

That places Malawi 25th out of 193 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 45 years of available data.

Methane emissions, per unit of GDP in Malawi, year by year

Year tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP Change
1980 0.0011 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP —
1981 0.0012 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +2.9%
1982 0.0013 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +8.1%
1983 0.0012 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -3.2%
1984 0.0012 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +2.3%
1985 0.0014 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +12.1%
1986 0.0014 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -2.4%
1987 0.0015 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +6.7%
1988 0.0012 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -20.3%
1989 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -10.7%
1990 0.0012 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +16.4%
1991 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -13.9%
1992 0.0013 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +23.1%
1993 0.0011 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -14.1%
1994 0.0019 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +73.2%
1995 0.0016 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -15.2%
1996 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -37.5%
1997 0.0009 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -14.6%
1998 0.0014 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +60.2%
1999 0.0014 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +3.3%
2000 0.0015 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +5.5%
2001 0.0015 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -2.0%
2002 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -49.7%
2003 0.0008 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +13.1%
2004 0.0008 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -7.7%
2005 0.0008 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -1.5%
2006 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -6.5%
2007 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -6.4%
2008 0.0006 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -12.0%
2009 0.0005 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -11.1%
2010 0.0005 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -5.9%
2011 0.0004 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -10.3%
2012 0.0006 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +38.3%
2013 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +12.5%
2014 0.0006 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -5.6%
2015 0.0006 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -1.3%
2016 0.0008 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +20.9%
2017 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -9.6%
2018 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -2.7%
2019 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -1.9%
2020 0.0006 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -3.4%
2021 0.0006 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -3.9%
2022 0.0006 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +3.1%
2023 0.0006 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP -3.4%
2024 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP +20.2%

Malawi compared with similar countries

  • Malawi's 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP is below the median for low income countries, which is 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP, 76% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
  • Malawi's 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP, 1.1× the median. (48 countries reporting)

Biggest year-on-year movements

Years where Methane emissions, per unit of GDP in Malawi changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.

YearChange FromTo
1994 +73.2% 0.0011 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 0.0019 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1980s 0.0012 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 0.001 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 0.0015 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 10
1990s 0.0013 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 0.0009 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 0.0019 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 10
2000s 0.0009 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 0.0005 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 0.0015 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 10
2010s 0.0006 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 0.0004 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 0.0008 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 10
2020s 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 0.0006 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP 5

Countries ranked near Malawi

  1. 22 Sierra Leone 0.0008 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP compare
  2. 23 Nigeria 0.0008 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP compare
  3. 24 Myanmar 0.0008 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP compare
  4. 26 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP compare
  5. 27 Laos 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP compare
  6. 28 Uganda 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is methane emissions, per unit of gdp in Malawi?
Methane emissions, per unit of gdp in Malawi was 0.0007 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP in 2024, according to Statizoid (derived).
What is the highest methane emissions, per unit of gdp recorded in Malawi?
The highest recorded value was 0.0019 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP in 1994.
What is the lowest methane emissions, per unit of gdp recorded in Malawi?
The lowest recorded value was 0.0004 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP in 2011.
How does Malawi rank for methane emissions, per unit of gdp?
Malawi ranks 25th out of 193 countries with data for 2024.
Is methane emissions, per unit of gdp rising or falling in Malawi?
Over the last ten years it is up 14.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Malawi data come from?
The figures come from Statizoid (derived), published as part of Methane emissions, per unit of GDP. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Methane emissions divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Methane emissions ÷ GDP (current US$)

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Indicator
Methane emissions, per unit of GDP
Unit
tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per US$ of GDP
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
193 places, 10,816 data points, 1960–2024
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Methane emissions divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.