Rice Cultivation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5), per square kilometre by country
Rice Cultivation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) 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
111
Highest
0.2493 kt per square kilometre
Bangladesh
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Mauritius
Median
0.0008 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
6,585
What the numbers show
Rice Cultivation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5), per square kilometre is currently reported for 111 countries. The highest value is 0.2493 kt per square kilometre in Bangladesh; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Mauritius.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0008 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0116 kt per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 53 countries rose and 55 fell. The largest increase was in Burundi (up 871.5%), and the largest decrease in Albania (down 100.0%).
Rice Cultivation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5), per square: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bangladesh | 0.2493 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 2 | Philippines | 0.1513 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 3 | Vietnam | 0.1122 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.1% | rising |
| 4 | Thailand | 0.0981 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.2% | rising |
| 5 | Cambodia | 0.0891 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.3% | rising |
| 6 | Sri Lanka | 0.0561 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.8% | rising |
| 7 | India | 0.0475 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 8 | Gambia | 0.0453 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.1% | volatile |
| 9 | Myanmar | 0.0434 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.0% | rising |
| 10 | Indonesia | 0.0319 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.9% | rising |
| 11 | Dominican Republic | 0.0299 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.2% | rising |
| 12 | Guinea | 0.0296 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 43.2% | volatile |
| 13 | Nepal | 0.0294 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.2% | rising |
| 14 | Japan | 0.0236 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.8% | falling |
| 15 | Sierra Leone | 0.0233 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.8% | rising |
| 16 | Pakistan | 0.0185 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 30.4% | rising |
| 17 | Madagascar | 0.0176 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 104.2% | rising |
| 18 | Burundi | 0.0161 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 871.5% | volatile |
| 19 | China | 0.0153 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.8% | falling |
| 20 | Nigeria | 0.0152 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 53.8% | volatile |
| 21 | East Timor | 0.0133 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.2% | volatile |
| 22 | Laos | 0.0104 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.7% | rising |
| 23 | Italy | 0.01 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 24 | Malaysia | 0.0094 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.5% | flat |
| 25 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.0084 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.1% | rising |
| 26 | Ecuador | 0.0081 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.5% | volatile |
| 27 | Uruguay | 0.0066 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.8% | volatile |
| 28 | Haiti | 0.006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.0% | rising |
| 29 | Guyana | 0.0057 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.9% | rising |
| 30 | Burkina Faso | 0.0054 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 52.9% | volatile |
| 31 | Egypt | 0.0051 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 32 | Portugal | 0.0043 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.4% | falling |
| 33 | Senegal | 0.0041 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 267.0% | volatile |
| 34 | Colombia | 0.0035 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.5% | rising |
| 35 | Cuba | 0.0034 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 77.5% | rising |
| 36 | Ghana | 0.0031 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 71.4% | volatile |
| 37 | Greece | 0.003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 38 | Rwanda | 0.0026 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 86.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Suriname | 0.0024 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.5% | rising |
| 40 | Peru | 0.0021 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 41 | Uganda | 0.002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 115.1% | volatile |
| 42 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.0018 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.1% | rising |
| 43 | Paraguay | 0.0017 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 74.1% | volatile |
| 44 | Malawi | 0.0016 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.2% | rising |
| 45 | Spain | 0.0016 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 50.7% | rising |
| 46 | Mali | 0.0015 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.6% | volatile |
| 47 | Brunei | 0.0014 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.4% | volatile |
| 48 | United States | 0.0012 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.6% | rising |
| 49 | Turkey | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 50 | North Macedonia | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 32.1% | falling |
| 51 | Benin | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.0% | volatile |
| 52 | Mozambique | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.6% | volatile |
| 53 | Liberia | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 54 | Bulgaria | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.7% | falling |
| 55 | Bhutan | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 55.8% | flat |
| 56 | Afghanistan | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 37.1% | falling |
| 57 | Puerto Rico | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 58 | Togo | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.4% | volatile |
| 59 | Mauritania | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 110.3% | volatile |
| 60 | Cameroon | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.1% | volatile |
| 61 | Tajikistan | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.2% | falling |
| 62 | Uzbekistan | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.9% | volatile |
| 63 | Nicaragua | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.7% | rising |
| 64 | Panama | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.2% | falling |
| 65 | Argentina | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.7% | rising |
| 66 | Fiji | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.9% | falling |
| 67 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 49.1% | rising |
| 68 | Solomon Islands | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.0% | volatile |
| 69 | Brazil | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 37.0% | falling |
| 70 | France | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 40.9% | falling |
| 71 | Comoros | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 600.0% | volatile |
| 72 | Azerbaijan | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 41.8% | rising |
| 73 | Chad | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.4% | volatile |
| 74 | Turkmenistan | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 61.5% | falling |
| 75 | Kazakhstan | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.8% | rising |
| 76 | Costa Rica | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 77.7% | falling |
| 77 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 86.9% | volatile |
| 78 | Angola | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.2% | volatile |
| 79 | Ethiopia | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 77.4% | volatile |
| 80 | Hungary | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.1% | volatile |
| 81 | South Sudan | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 75.0% | rising |
| 82 | Chile | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.5% | falling |
| 83 | Kenya | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.7% | volatile |
| 84 | Zambia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 56.3% | volatile |
| 85 | Morocco | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 40.5% | rising |
| 86 | Central African Republic | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 410.6% | volatile |
| 87 | Belize | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.5% | rising |
| 88 | Guatemala | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.9% | falling |
| 89 | Russia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.9% | rising |
| 90 | Romania | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 79.0% | volatile |
| 91 | Honduras | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 37.1% | flat |
| 92 | Niger | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 39.1% | rising |
| 93 | Iraq | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 96.4% | rising |
| 94 | Mexico | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.7% | volatile |
| 95 | El Salvador | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 72.9% | volatile |
| 96 | Australia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 54.1% | volatile |
| 97 | Eswatini | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.4% | volatile |
| 98 | Ukraine | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 90.9% | falling |
| 99 | Sudan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 34.1% | falling |
| 100 | Congo | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.1% | volatile |
| 101 | South Africa | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.4% | falling |
| 102 | Somalia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.3% | volatile |
| 103 | Papua New Guinea | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.0% | falling |
| 104 | Gabon | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 105 | Saudi Arabia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Zimbabwe | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 92.4% | volatile |
| 107 | Syria | 0 kt per square kilometre | 1996 | unchanged | volatile |
| 108 | Algeria | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.4% | volatile |
| 109 | Albania | 0 kt per square kilometre | 1995 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 109 | Jamaica | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 109 | Mauritius | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | 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.
- World 0.0054 kt per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
Rice Cultivation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) 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 Cultivation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Rice Cultivation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Rice Cultivation — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) 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.