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Waste — Emissions (CO2) — FAO TIER 1 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
158
Highest
13,203 kt
OECD
Lowest
0 kt
Russian Federation
Median
2.88 kt
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
11,013

What the numbers show

Waste — Emissions (CO2) — FAO TIER 1 is currently reported for 158 countries. The highest value is 13,203 kt in OECD; the lowest is 0 kt in Russian Federation.

The median across all reporting countries is 2.88 kt, and the mean is 234.32 kt.

Over the past decade 100 countries rose and 43 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 2,426.3%), and the largest decrease in Croatia (down 100.0%).

Waste — Emissions (CO2) — FAO TIER 1: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 OECD 13,203 kt 2023 down 7.4% rising
2 Spain 4,180 kt 2023 down 0.9% volatile
3 China 3,693 kt 2023 up 27.0% volatile
4 China, mainland 3,640 kt 2023 up 27.3% volatile
5 Japan 3,220 kt 2023 down 23.2% rising
6 France 2,330 kt 2023 up 3.6% rising
7 Republic of Korea 1,610 kt 2023 up 2.5% volatile
8 Ghana 708 kt 2023 up 475.6% volatile
9 Mexico 506 kt 2023 up 17.1% volatile
10 Italy 405 kt 2023 down 9.4% rising
11 Brazil 302 kt 2023 up 11.0% volatile
12 Sierra Leone 228 kt 2023 up 23.2% volatile
13 Nigeria 214 kt 2023 up 25.9% volatile
14 Portugal 205 kt 2023 up 13.3% rising
15 Guatemala 203 kt 2023 up 50.4% volatile
16 Poland 196 kt 2023 up 32.4% rising
17 Indonesia 174 kt 2023 up 25.2% volatile
18 Sweden 156 kt 2023 down 4.9% volatile
19 Philippines 154 kt 2023 up 22.2% volatile
20 Tajikistan 152 kt 2023 up 20.6% rising
21 USSR 142.38 kt 1991 up 168.8% volatile
22 Canada 107 kt 2023 up 8.6% rising
23 Nepal 85.1 kt 2023 up 81.1% volatile
24 Malaysia 78 kt 2023 up 24.2% volatile
25 Costa Rica 66.8 kt 2023 down 5.4% volatile
26 Cabo Verde 64.1 kt 2023 down 18.1% volatile
27 Czechia 56.3 kt 2023 down 1.1% rising
28 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 54.9 kt 2023 down 22.1% volatile
29 Viet Nam 52 kt 2023 up 34.0% volatile
30 Norway 51.2 kt 2023 down 39.7% volatile
31 Myanmar 47 kt 2023 up 18.4% volatile
32 Belgium-Luxembourg 46.2 kt 1999 down 67.7% volatile
33 Singapore 42 kt 2023 up 14.4% volatile
34 China, Taiwan Province of 41.2 kt 2023 up 14.4% volatile
35 Honduras 33.4 kt 2023 up 29.0% volatile
36 Germany 30.9 kt 2023 down 81.8% rising
37 Tunisia 28.2 kt 2023 up 53.3% volatile
38 Czechoslovakia 26.88 kt 1992 up 35.3% volatile
39 Panama 25.2 kt 2023 up 125.0% volatile
40 Yugoslav SFR 21.9 kt 1991 up 26.4% volatile
41 Mauritania 20.6 kt 2023 up 449.3% volatile
42 North Macedonia 20 kt 2023 up 4.2% rising
43 Colombia 18.9 kt 2023 up 13.2% volatile
43 Thailand 18.9 kt 2023 up 18.9% volatile
45 Hungary 18.8 kt 2023 down 68.8% volatile
46 Australia and New Zealand 17.95 kt 2023 up 0.4% rising
47 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 17.9 kt 2023 up 13.3% volatile
48 Australia 15.8 kt 2023 up 2.6% rising
48 Lao People's Democratic Republic 15.8 kt 2023 up 37.4% volatile
50 Cambodia 13 kt 2023 up 22.6% volatile
51 Ukraine 12.8 kt 2023 down 5.2% volatile
52 Belarus 12.3 kt 2023 down 34.6% volatile
53 Argentina 12 kt 2023 up 12.1% rising
54 Slovakia 11.4 kt 2023 up 21.0% rising
55 China, Hong Kong SAR 11.2 kt 2023 up 5.7% volatile
55 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 11.2 kt 2023 up 8.7% rising
57 Mali 11 kt 2023 up 60.6% volatile
58 Peru 9.66 kt 2023 up 15.4% volatile
59 Chile 8.76 kt 2023 up 25.7% volatile
60 Ireland 8.73 kt 2023 down 46.4% volatile
61 Switzerland 8.45 kt 2023 down 13.4% volatile
62 Mozambique 8.41 kt 2023 down 38.2% volatile
63 Guinea-Bissau 7.64 kt 2023 up 23.4% volatile
64 Côte d'Ivoire 6.77 kt 2023 up 41.3% volatile
65 Serbia 6.39 kt 2023 down 0.9% rising
66 Serbia and Montenegro 6.22 kt 2005 up 26.2% rising
67 Lesotho 5.73 kt 2023 up 11.7% volatile
68 Afghanistan 5.6 kt 2023 down 15.0% volatile
69 Slovenia 4.89 kt 2023 down 36.5% volatile
70 Ecuador 4.7 kt 2023 up 18.1% volatile
71 Romania 4.67 kt 2023 down 3.9% volatile
72 Denmark 4.05 kt 2023 up 4.4% rising
73 Kyrgyzstan 3.92 kt 2023 down 23.4% rising
74 Guinea 3.87 kt 2023 up 24.0% volatile
75 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.83 kt 2023 up 4.4% rising
76 Maldives 3.82 kt 2023 up 34.0% volatile
77 Somalia 3.46 kt 2023 up 51.1% volatile
78 Namibia 3.1 kt 2023 up 31.4% volatile
79 Albania 2.91 kt 2023 up 11.9% volatile
80 Andorra 2.84 kt 2023 up 8.4% volatile
81 Caribbean 2.78 kt 2023 up 10.5% rising
82 Rwanda 2.61 kt 2023 up 29.9% volatile
82 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2.61 kt 2023 up 22.0% volatile
84 Lithuania 2.47 kt 2023 up 203.1% volatile
85 Azerbaijan 2.45 kt 2023 up 17.2% rising
86 Republic of Moldova 2.41 kt 2023 down 0.8% rising
87 Algeria 2.36 kt 2023 up 27.6% volatile
88 Burundi 2.35 kt 2023 up 35.8% volatile
89 Belgium 2.33 kt 2023 down 85.5% volatile
90 Türkiye 2.16 kt 2023 down 55.4% volatile
91 New Zealand 2.15 kt 2023 down 13.0% rising
92 Brunei Darussalam 1.84 kt 2023 up 11.5% volatile
93 Zambia 1.75 kt 2023 down 29.1% volatile
94 Greece 1.73 kt 2023 down 36.6% volatile
95 Ethiopia 1.64 kt 2023 up 56.2% rising
96 Kenya 1.5 kt 2023 up 50.9% volatile
97 Monaco 1.37 kt 2023 up 10.5% rising
98 Uruguay 1.36 kt 2023 up 4.6% rising
99 Bulgaria 1.29 kt 2023 down 94.3% volatile
100 Zimbabwe 1.11 kt 2023 up 44.3% volatile
101 Papua New Guinea 1 kt 2023 up 17.5% volatile
101 Melanesia 1 kt 2023 up 17.5% volatile
103 Bahamas 0.964 kt 2023 up 12.0% volatile
104 Mongolia 0.918 kt 2023 up 10.9% volatile
105 China, Macao SAR 0.882 kt 2023 up 10.7% volatile
106 Austria 0.834 kt 2023 unchanged volatile
107 Jamaica 0.702 kt 2023 up 7.0% rising
108 Iceland 0.677 kt 2023 down 51.6% volatile
109 Montenegro 0.603 kt 2023 up 7.7% rising
110 Dominican Republic 0.484 kt 2023 up 22.8% volatile
111 Cuba 0.482 kt 2023 up 1.9% volatile
112 Egypt 0.452 kt 2023 up 20.5% volatile
113 Kuwait 0.434 kt 2023 up 32.3% volatile
114 Benin 0.425 kt 2023 up 46.0% volatile
115 Samoa 0.424 kt 2023 down 73.7% volatile
115 Polynesia 0.424 kt 2023 down 73.7% volatile
117 Ethiopia PDR 0.408 kt 1992 up 67.9% volatile
118 Gabon 0.334 kt 2023 up 31.5% volatile
119 Malta 0.291 kt 2023 down 27.8% volatile
120 Burkina Faso 0.246 kt 2023 up 44.7% volatile
121 Kazakhstan 0.24 kt 2023 up 2,426.3% volatile
121 Togo 0.24 kt 2023 up 44.6% volatile
123 San Marino 0.23 kt 2023 down 7.3% rising
124 Suriname 0.204 kt 2023 up 5.2% volatile
125 Jordan 0.201 kt 2023 up 35.8% volatile
126 Timor-Leste 0.162 kt 2023 up 23.7% volatile
127 Estonia 0.133 kt 2023 down 59.9% volatile
128 Guyana 0.128 kt 2023 up 4.9% rising
129 Sao Tome and Principe 0.124 kt 2023 up 35.2% volatile
130 Paraguay 0.12 kt 2023 down 12.4% volatile
131 Belize 0.0931 kt 2023 up 71.5% volatile
132 Dominica 0.0794 kt 2023 up 12.8% rising
133 Mauritius 0.052 kt 2023 unchanged volatile
134 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0.0483 kt 2023 down 99.6% volatile
135 Liechtenstein 0.0377 kt 2023 down 15.3% volatile
136 Saint Lucia 0.0339 kt 2023 up 5.3% rising
136 Qatar 0.0339 kt 2023 up 32.9% volatile
138 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0324 kt 2023 up 19.6% volatile
139 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0065 kt 2023 up 35.4% rising
140 Congo 0.0061 kt 2023 up 35.6% volatile
141 Lebanon 0.0053 kt 2023 up 20.5% volatile
142 Holy See 0.0034 kt 2023 down 22.7% rising
143 Bhutan 0.0028 kt 2023 down 28.2% volatile
144 Palau 0.0005 kt 2023 unchanged rising
144 Micronesia 0.0005 kt 2023 unchanged volatile
146 Pacific Islands Trust Territory 0.0004 kt 1990 — volatile
147 Cyprus 0 kt 2023 — flat
147 Finland 0 kt 2023 — flat
147 Grenada 0 kt 2023 — flat
147 Croatia 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
147 Luxembourg 0 kt 2023 — flat
147 Latvia 0 kt 2023 down 100.0% volatile
147 Morocco 0 kt 2023 — flat
147 Marshall Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
147 Oman 0 kt 2023 — flat
147 Solomon Islands 0 kt 2023 — flat
147 Uzbekistan 0 kt 2023 — flat
147 Russian Federation 0 kt 2023 — flat

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
Waste — Emissions (CO2) — FAO TIER 1
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
192 places, 11,013 data points, 1961–2023
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