Synthetic Fertilizers — Direct emissions (N2O) — UNFCCC by country

Countries reporting

Highest

41.24 kt

Russian Federation

Lowest

0.0026 kt

Liechtenstein

Median

3.89 kt

Years covered

1990–2020

Data points

1,438

What the numbers show

Synthetic Fertilizers — Direct emissions (N2O) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 44 countries. The highest value is 41.24 kt in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0.0026 kt in Liechtenstein.

The median across all reporting countries is 3.89 kt, and the mean is 7.93 kt.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 15,863.

Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Mongolia (up 222.2%), and the largest decrease in Switzerland (down 25.0%).

Synthetic Fertilizers — Direct emissions (N2O) — UNFCCC: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Russian Federation	41.24 kt	2020	up 61.9%	rising
2	Türkiye	32.26 kt	2020	up 52.8%	rising
3	France	32.09 kt	2020	down 6.7%	falling
4	Canada	32.07 kt	2020	up 53.7%	rising
5	Ukraine	30.56 kt	2020	up 151.9%	volatile
6	Bangladesh	17.62 kt	2012	down 2.3%	falling
7	Spain	16.43 kt	2020	up 13.0%	falling
8	Poland	16.24 kt	2020	up 0.6%	rising
9	Germany	12.99 kt	2020	down 16.7%	falling
10	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	10.91 kt	2020	down 12.8%	falling
11	Italy	8.76 kt	2020	up 10.1%	falling
12	Australia	8.12 kt	2020	up 40.3%	rising
13	Romania	7.37 kt	2020	up 53.4%	rising
14	Ireland	7.23 kt	2020	up 5.6%	falling
15	Hungary	6.96 kt	2020	up 57.7%	rising
16	Belarus	6.79 kt	2020	down 18.5%	rising
17	Colombia	6.08 kt	2014	up 85.4%	rising
18	Bulgaria	5.73 kt	2020	up 83.0%	rising
19	New Zealand	5.2 kt	2020	up 46.7%	rising
20	Czechia	4.49 kt	2020	up 5.6%	rising
21	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	4.04 kt	2020	up 13.0%	falling
22	Denmark	3.96 kt	2020	up 26.5%	falling
23	Japan	3.83 kt	2020	down 9.7%	falling
24	Sweden	3.38 kt	2020	up 28.1%	falling
25	Greece	3.19 kt	2020	down 4.7%	falling
26	Lithuania	3.13 kt	2020	up 39.0%	rising
27	Belgium	2.47 kt	2020	up 5.3%	flat
28	Finland	2.19 kt	2020	down 11.0%	falling
29	Slovakia	2.01 kt	2020	up 19.9%	rising
30	Austria	1.68 kt	2020	up 20.9%	falling
31	Norway	1.66 kt	2020	up 24.5%	falling
32	Portugal	1.62 kt	2020	up 5.5%	falling
33	Croatia	1.56 kt	2020	down 9.5%	falling
34	Latvia	1.32 kt	2020	up 41.7%	rising
35	Kazakhstan	1.04 kt	2020	up 100.0%	volatile
36	Estonia	0.6519 kt	2020	up 44.9%	rising
37	Switzerland	0.6233 kt	2020	down 25.0%	falling
38	Slovenia	0.4352 kt	2020	up 0.8%	falling
39	Mongolia	0.29 kt	2014	up 222.2%	volatile
40	Luxembourg	0.2057 kt	2020	down 4.5%	falling
41	Iceland	0.1793 kt	2020	up 4.9%	flat
42	Cyprus	0.1226 kt	2020	down 16.7%	falling
43	Malta	0.0092 kt	2020	up 5.7%	flat
44	Liechtenstein	0.0026 kt	2020	down 3.7%	falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator: Synthetic Fertilizers — Direct emissions (N2O) — UNFCCC
Unit: kt
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage: 49 places, 1,438 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed: 13 August 2026

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