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Rice Cultivation — Emissions (CH4) — UNFCCC by country

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...

Countries reporting
21
Highest
629.62 kt
United States
Lowest
0.8065 kt
Hungary
Median
10.46 kt
Years covered
31
1990–2020
Data points
735

What the numbers show

Rice Cultivation — Emissions (CH4) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 21 countries. The highest value is 629.62 kt in United States; the lowest is 0.8065 kt in Hungary.

The median across all reporting countries is 10.46 kt, and the mean is 93.12 kt.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 781.

Over the past decade 8 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Paraguay (up 270.2%), and the largest decrease in Australia (down 72.5%).

Rice Cultivation — Emissions (CH4) — UNFCCC: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 United States 629.62 kt 2020 down 16.8% falling
2 Bangladesh 603.55 kt 2012 up 11.1% rising
3 Japan 480.18 kt 2020 down 1.5% falling
4 Italy 63.28 kt 2020 down 13.2% falling
5 Russian Federation 24.38 kt 2020 down 2.1% rising
5 Russia 24.38 kt 2020 down 2.1% rising
7 Colombia 24.13 kt 2014 down 15.0% rising
8 Paraguay 23.84 kt 2015 up 270.2% volatile
9 Kazakhstan 21.48 kt 2020 up 8.8% rising
10 Spain 16.74 kt 2020 down 15.9% rising
11 Turkey 10.46 kt 2020 up 29.5% rising
11 Türkiye 10.46 kt 2020 up 29.5% rising
13 Greece 5.42 kt 2020 down 9.8% rising
14 Portugal 4.56 kt 2020 down 17.6% rising
15 Bulgaria 4.45 kt 2020 up 3.1% volatile
16 Ukraine 3.32 kt 2020 down 61.8% falling
17 France 1.53 kt 2020 down 34.9% falling
18 North Macedonia 1.21 kt 2014 up 71.7% rising
19 Romania 0.8495 kt 2020 down 55.1% volatile
20 Australia 0.8271 kt 2020 down 72.5% volatile
21 Hungary 0.8065 kt 2020 up 49.4% 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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Indicator
Rice Cultivation — Emissions (CH4) — UNFCCC
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
26 places, 735 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed

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