Waste — Emissions (CH4), per square kilometre by country
Waste — Emissions (CH4) 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
186
Highest
0.2409 kt per square kilometre
Singapore
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Mongolia
Median
0.0006 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
10,734
What the numbers show
Waste — Emissions (CH4), per square kilometre is currently reported for 186 countries. The highest value is 0.2409 kt per square kilometre in Singapore; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Mongolia.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0006 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0039 kt per square kilometre.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 19,764.
Over the past decade 158 countries rose and 28 fell. The largest increase was in Cyprus (up 237.3%), and the largest decrease in Syria (down 76.0%).
Waste — Emissions (CH4), per square kilometre: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 0.2409 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.4% | volatile |
| 2 | Monaco | 0.1555 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.5% | rising |
| 3 | Bahrain | 0.0446 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.7% | volatile |
| 4 | Trinidad and Tobago | 0.0246 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.8% | volatile |
| 5 | Kuwait | 0.0201 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.1% | volatile |
| 6 | Maldives | 0.0168 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 47.5% | volatile |
| 7 | Lebanon | 0.0116 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.3% | volatile |
| 8 | Israel | 0.0111 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.2% | rising |
| 9 | Malta | 0.0109 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.0% | volatile |
| 10 | Qatar | 0.0103 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.6% | volatile |
| 11 | Barbados | 0.0096 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 12 | Mauritius | 0.009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 13 | Cyprus | 0.0074 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 237.3% | volatile |
| 14 | Seychelles | 0.0048 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.7% | rising |
| 15 | Bangladesh | 0.0042 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 44.0% | volatile |
| 16 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.0041 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.8% | rising |
| 17 | Grenada | 0.0037 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 18 | United Arab Emirates | 0.0036 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.8% | volatile |
| 19 | San Marino | 0.0036 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 38.4% | rising |
| 20 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.0034 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.2% | rising |
| 21 | Aruba | 0.0033 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 22 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0.0032 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.6% | rising |
| 23 | Turkey | 0.0031 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 54.8% | volatile |
| 24 | Dominican Republic | 0.0031 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.7% | volatile |
| 25 | Comoros | 0.0029 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.0% | rising |
| 26 | Denmark | 0.0027 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 52.9% | flat |
| 27 | Belgium | 0.0027 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.8% | falling |
| 28 | Sri Lanka | 0.0026 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.8% | rising |
| 29 | Czechia | 0.0025 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.8% | rising |
| 30 | El Salvador | 0.0025 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.1% | rising |
| 31 | Slovakia | 0.0025 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.4% | rising |
| 32 | Guatemala | 0.0024 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.6% | volatile |
| 33 | Jordan | 0.0019 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.3% | volatile |
| 34 | Saint Lucia | 0.0018 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 35 | Vietnam | 0.0018 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.0% | volatile |
| 36 | Tonga | 0.0018 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.5% | rising |
| 37 | Thailand | 0.0018 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.8% | volatile |
| 38 | Bulgaria | 0.0017 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.6% | falling |
| 39 | Morocco | 0.0016 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.9% | volatile |
| 40 | Portugal | 0.0016 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.4% | flat |
| 41 | Cuba | 0.0015 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 42 | India | 0.0015 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.4% | rising |
| 43 | Costa Rica | 0.0015 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.6% | volatile |
| 44 | Rwanda | 0.0015 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.9% | rising |
| 45 | Hungary | 0.0015 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.7% | falling |
| 46 | Andorra | 0.0014 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.1% | rising |
| 47 | China | 0.0014 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.9% | volatile |
| 48 | Haiti | 0.0014 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.2% | rising |
| 49 | Romania | 0.0014 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.1% | rising |
| 50 | Malaysia | 0.0014 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.1% | volatile |
| 51 | United Kingdom | 0.0013 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.3% | falling |
| 52 | Burundi | 0.0013 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.3% | rising |
| 53 | Azerbaijan | 0.0013 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.7% | rising |
| 54 | Italy | 0.0013 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 39.9% | falling |
| 55 | Philippines | 0.0012 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.9% | rising |
| 56 | Dominica | 0.0012 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.1% | rising |
| 57 | Nigeria | 0.0012 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 38.2% | volatile |
| 58 | Mexico | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.4% | rising |
| 59 | Moldova | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.4% | rising |
| 60 | Greece | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.7% | rising |
| 61 | Poland | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.9% | falling |
| 62 | Pakistan | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.8% | volatile |
| 63 | Bahamas | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 64 | Spain | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.3% | rising |
| 65 | France | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.5% | rising |
| 66 | Germany | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 38.2% | falling |
| 67 | Austria | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.9% | falling |
| 68 | Honduras | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.0% | volatile |
| 69 | Belarus | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.1% | rising |
| 70 | Tuvalu | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.3% | rising |
| 71 | Gambia | 0.001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.9% | volatile |
| 72 | Iraq | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.5% | volatile |
| 73 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 40.8% | volatile |
| 74 | Nauru | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 75 | North Macedonia | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 76 | Indonesia | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.2% | volatile |
| 77 | Kiribati | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.1% | rising |
| 78 | British Virgin Islands | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.6% | volatile |
| 79 | Jamaica | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 80 | Fiji | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.9% | rising |
| 81 | Uruguay | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 101.6% | volatile |
| 82 | Georgia | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.2% | flat |
| 83 | Djibouti | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 41.8% | volatile |
| 84 | Croatia | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 17.3% | rising |
| 85 | Tunisia | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.4% | rising |
| 86 | Slovenia | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 28.3% | falling |
| 87 | Brunei | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.7% | rising |
| 88 | Albania | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.2% | rising |
| 89 | Panama | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.7% | volatile |
| 90 | Serbia | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.3% | flat |
| 91 | Colombia | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.5% | rising |
| 92 | Uganda | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 39.0% | volatile |
| 93 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.1% | rising |
| 94 | New Zealand | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 95 | Ecuador | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.0% | volatile |
| 96 | Ukraine | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.1% | falling |
| 97 | Japan | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 28.5% | falling |
| 98 | Luxembourg | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 49.8% | falling |
| 99 | Uzbekistan | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.5% | rising |
| 100 | South Africa | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 101 | Estonia | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 51.6% | falling |
| 102 | Armenia | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.8% | falling |
| 103 | Togo | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.4% | rising |
| 104 | Egypt | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 45.1% | rising |
| 105 | United States | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.1% | falling |
| 106 | Brazil | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.0% | volatile |
| 107 | Chile | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.9% | rising |
| 108 | Saudi Arabia | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.0% | volatile |
| 109 | Nepal | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.8% | rising |
| 110 | Marshall Islands | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.7% | rising |
| 111 | Latvia | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.2% | rising |
| 112 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.5% | rising |
| 113 | Malawi | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.1% | rising |
| 114 | Oman | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 72.6% | volatile |
| 115 | Belize | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.4% | rising |
| 116 | Equatorial Guinea | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.7% | volatile |
| 117 | Benin | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 33.0% | rising |
| 118 | Montenegro | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 119 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.2% | volatile |
| 120 | Nicaragua | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 121 | Ethiopia | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.6% | rising |
| 122 | Samoa | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 123 | Ghana | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.5% | rising |
| 124 | Tajikistan | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.7% | rising |
| 125 | Sierra Leone | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.2% | rising |
| 126 | Palau | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.1% | rising |
| 127 | Guinea | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 44.3% | volatile |
| 128 | Senegal | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.1% | rising |
| 129 | Eswatini | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.9% | falling |
| 130 | Burkina Faso | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 44.0% | volatile |
| 131 | Russia | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 38.3% | rising |
| 132 | Algeria | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 49.7% | volatile |
| 133 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.7% | rising |
| 134 | Ireland | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 26.3% | falling |
| 135 | Finland | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 42.0% | falling |
| 136 | Yemen | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.2% | volatile |
| 137 | Lithuania | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 65.8% | falling |
| 138 | Sweden | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 139 | Cambodia | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.2% | rising |
| 140 | Vanuatu | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.3% | volatile |
| 141 | Solomon Islands | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.0% | volatile |
| 142 | Cameroon | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 44.5% | volatile |
| 143 | East Timor | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.2% | rising |
| 144 | Liechtenstein | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.6% | volatile |
| 145 | Peru | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.4% | rising |
| 146 | Switzerland | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.7% | volatile |
| 147 | Syria | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 76.0% | volatile |
| 148 | Lesotho | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.1% | rising |
| 149 | Eritrea | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.3% | rising |
| 150 | Myanmar | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.0% | rising |
| 151 | Liberia | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.4% | rising |
| 152 | Kenya | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 38.1% | volatile |
| 153 | Sudan | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 41.2% | rising |
| 154 | Somalia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 33.3% | volatile |
| 155 | Madagascar | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 48.1% | volatile |
| 156 | Zimbabwe | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.3% | rising |
| 157 | Bhutan | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.4% | volatile |
| 158 | Argentina | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.1% | rising |
| 159 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 64.8% | volatile |
| 160 | Turkmenistan | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.7% | rising |
| 161 | Afghanistan | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 30.9% | volatile |
| 162 | South Sudan | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.4% | rising |
| 163 | Angola | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.5% | volatile |
| 164 | Iceland | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 165 | Canada | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.1% | rising |
| 166 | Mozambique | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 45.2% | rising |
| 167 | Congo | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.4% | volatile |
| 168 | Norway | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.1% | falling |
| 169 | Guyana | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 170 | Laos | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.4% | volatile |
| 171 | Papua New Guinea | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.5% | rising |
| 172 | Kazakhstan | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.9% | rising |
| 173 | Libya | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.3% | volatile |
| 174 | Australia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.0% | falling |
| 175 | Paraguay | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.8% | rising |
| 176 | Suriname | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 177 | Chad | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.8% | volatile |
| 178 | Zambia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.7% | volatile |
| 179 | Mali | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 50.6% | rising |
| 180 | Gabon | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.8% | rising |
| 181 | Niger | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 44.4% | rising |
| 182 | Botswana | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.8% | volatile |
| 183 | Mauritania | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.7% | volatile |
| 184 | Central African Republic | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.0% | rising |
| 185 | Namibia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.0% | volatile |
| 186 | Mongolia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.8% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 0.0005 kt per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
Waste — Emissions (CH4) 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.
Waste — Emissions (CH4) ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Waste — Emissions 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
Waste — Emissions (CH4) 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.