Synthetic Fertilizers — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC by country

Countries reporting

Highest

10,929 kt

Russian Federation

Lowest

0.6822 kt

Liechtenstein

Median

1,032 kt

Years covered

1990–2020

Data points

1,438

What the numbers show

Synthetic Fertilizers — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 44 countries. The highest value is 10,929 kt in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0.6822 kt in Liechtenstein.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,032 kt, and the mean is 2,100 kt.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 16,021.

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 — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Russian Federation	10,929 kt	2020	up 61.9%	rising
2	Türkiye	8,548 kt	2020	up 52.8%	rising
3	France	8,503 kt	2020	down 6.7%	falling
4	Canada	8,498 kt	2020	up 53.7%	rising
5	Ukraine	8,100 kt	2020	up 151.9%	volatile
6	Bangladesh	4,669 kt	2012	down 2.3%	falling
7	Spain	4,353 kt	2020	up 13.0%	falling
8	Poland	4,304 kt	2020	up 0.6%	rising
9	Germany	3,443 kt	2020	down 16.7%	falling
10	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	2,891 kt	2020	down 12.8%	falling
11	Italy	2,321 kt	2020	up 10.1%	falling
12	Australia	2,151 kt	2020	up 40.3%	rising
13	Romania	1,953 kt	2020	up 53.4%	rising
14	Ireland	1,917 kt	2020	up 5.6%	falling
15	Hungary	1,846 kt	2020	up 57.7%	rising
16	Belarus	1,799 kt	2020	down 18.5%	rising
17	Colombia	1,611 kt	2014	up 85.4%	rising
18	Bulgaria	1,517 kt	2020	up 83.0%	rising
19	New Zealand	1,377 kt	2020	up 46.7%	rising
20	Czechia	1,189 kt	2020	up 5.6%	rising
21	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	1,071 kt	2020	up 13.0%	falling
22	Denmark	1,050 kt	2020	up 26.5%	falling
23	Japan	1,014 kt	2020	down 9.7%	falling
24	Sweden	896.03 kt	2020	up 28.1%	falling
25	Greece	845.12 kt	2020	down 4.7%	falling
26	Lithuania	828.69 kt	2020	up 39.0%	rising
27	Belgium	654.67 kt	2020	up 5.3%	flat
28	Finland	580.15 kt	2020	down 11.0%	falling
29	Slovakia	531.68 kt	2020	up 19.9%	rising
30	Austria	445.39 kt	2020	up 20.9%	falling
31	Norway	440.93 kt	2020	up 24.5%	falling
32	Portugal	429.17 kt	2020	up 5.5%	falling
33	Croatia	412.11 kt	2020	down 9.5%	falling
34	Latvia	351.05 kt	2020	up 41.7%	rising
35	Kazakhstan	275.6 kt	2020	up 100.0%	volatile
36	Estonia	172.76 kt	2020	up 44.9%	rising
37	Switzerland	165.17 kt	2020	down 25.0%	falling
38	Slovenia	115.32 kt	2020	up 0.7%	falling
39	Mongolia	76.85 kt	2014	up 222.2%	volatile
40	Luxembourg	54.52 kt	2020	down 4.4%	falling
41	Iceland	47.51 kt	2020	up 4.9%	flat
42	Cyprus	32.48 kt	2020	down 16.7%	falling
43	Malta	2.44 kt	2020	up 6.2%	flat
44	Liechtenstein	0.6822 kt	2020	down 6.1%	falling

Regions and income groups

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

World 142,843 kt
Annex I countries 142,567 kt
United States of America 56,789 kt
European Union (27) 39,817 kt
Non-Annex I countries 275.6 kt

About this data

Indicator: Synthetic Fertilizers — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — 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