Rice — Crop residues (Emissions N2O), per square kilometre by country

Rice — Crop residues (Emissions N2O) 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
102
Highest
0.0001 kt per square kilometre
Bangladesh
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Mauritius
Median
0 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
6,018

What the numbers show

Rice — Crop residues (Emissions N2O), per square kilometre is currently reported for 102 countries. The highest value is 0.0001 kt per square kilometre in Bangladesh; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Mauritius.

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 48 countries rose and 44 fell. The largest increase was in Burundi (up 885.1%), and the largest decrease in Mauritius (down 100.0%).

Rice — Crop residues (Emissions N2O), per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Bangladesh 0.0001 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.9% rising
2 Cambodia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 30.3% volatile
3 Sri Lanka 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.9% rising
4 Thailand 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.5% rising
5 India 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 20.8% rising
6 Philippines 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% rising
7 Nepal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 6.4% rising
8 Myanmar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% rising
9 Sierra Leone 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 25.8% rising
10 Indonesia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% rising
11 Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 52.9% volatile
12 Japan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.5% falling
13 Burundi 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 885.1% volatile
14 Pakistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 37.1% rising
15 China 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.5% rising
16 Dominican Republic 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 26.3% rising
17 Nigeria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 53.5% volatile
18 Gambia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 7.8% volatile
19 Guinea-Bissau 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.7% rising
20 Madagascar 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 67.3% rising
21 Senegal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 255.6% volatile
22 Malaysia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 13.5% rising
23 Ghana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 115.6% volatile
24 Uruguay 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.8% volatile
25 Haiti 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.8% rising
26 Panama 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 33.0% rising
27 Liberia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.6% rising
28 Ecuador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 1.6% volatile
29 Rwanda 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 56.4% volatile
30 Togo 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 17.3% volatile
31 Benin 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 29.1% volatile
32 Egypt 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% rising
33 Guyana 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 5.8% rising
34 Italy 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 3.5% rising
35 Nicaragua 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 26.3% volatile
36 Mali 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 46.0% volatile
37 Colombia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 38.6% rising
38 Uganda 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 69.9% volatile
39 Burkina Faso 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 58.6% volatile
40 Paraguay 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 63.2% volatile
41 Peru 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 9.2% volatile
42 Malawi 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.5% volatile
43 Portugal 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 2.9% flat
44 Cuba 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 79.3% rising
45 Costa Rica 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 71.0% rising
46 Suriname 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 19.7% rising
47 Greece 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.4% rising
48 Bhutan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 51.6% rising
49 Brazil 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 20.7% falling
50 Cameroon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 23.1% volatile
51 Afghanistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 27.9% rising
52 Mozambique 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 0.3% volatile
53 Tajikistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 59.2% rising
54 Belize 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.6% rising
55 North Macedonia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 30.5% rising
56 Uzbekistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 1.0% falling
57 Spain 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 59.0% rising
58 Bulgaria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 13.2% falling
59 Guatemala 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 47.7% flat
60 El Salvador 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 71.1% falling
61 Puerto Rico 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 falling
62 Fiji 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
63 Mauritania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 121.0% volatile
64 Argentina 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 25.6% volatile
65 Honduras 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 43.7% rising
66 Kenya 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 57.4% volatile
67 Chad 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 28.3% volatile
68 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 61.4% rising
69 Ethiopia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 99.2% volatile
70 Turkmenistan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 47.7% flat
71 Kazakhstan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 29.6% rising
72 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 84.6% volatile
73 Azerbaijan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 113.4% volatile
74 Zambia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 50.3% volatile
75 Central African Republic 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 411.6% volatile
76 Solomon Islands 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
77 Chile 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 15.4% rising
78 France 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 25.5% flat
79 Mexico 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 31.0% falling
80 Niger 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 54.5% rising
81 South Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 83.9% rising
82 Morocco 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 46.7% volatile
83 Hungary 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 9.4% volatile
84 Eswatini 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 50.0% volatile
85 Angola 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 up 11.5% volatile
86 Australia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 56.7% volatile
87 Romania 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 78.2% volatile
88 Iraq 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 96.9% rising
89 Ukraine 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 91.8% falling
90 Albania 0 kt per square kilometre 1993 down 97.0% falling
91 Sudan 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 39.3% falling
92 Congo 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 11.1% volatile
93 Gabon 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
94 Somalia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 12.5% volatile
95 South Africa 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
96 Papua New Guinea 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
97 Zimbabwe 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 down 92.3% volatile
98 Saudi Arabia 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 volatile
99 Algeria 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
100 Comoros 0 kt per square kilometre 2023 volatile
100 Jamaica 0 kt per square kilometre 2019 volatile
100 Mauritius 0 kt per square kilometre 2019 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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Rice — Crop residues (Emissions N2O) 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.

Rice — Crop residues (Emissions N2O) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Rice — Crop residues (Emissions N2O), per square kilometre
Unit
kt per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
104 places, 6,018 data points, 1961–2023
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Rice — Crop residues (Emissions N2O) 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.