Waste — Emissions (CO2), per square kilometre by country
Waste — Emissions (CO2) 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
126
Highest
0.6574 kt per square kilometre
Monaco
Lowest
0 kt per square kilometre
Latvia
Median
0 kt per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
7,811
What the numbers show
Waste — Emissions (CO2), per square kilometre is currently reported for 126 countries. The highest value is 0.6574 kt per square kilometre in Monaco; the lowest is 0 kt per square kilometre in Latvia.
The median across all reporting countries is 0 kt per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0062 kt per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 86 countries rose and 37 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 2,426.3%), and the largest decrease in Croatia (down 100.0%).
Waste — Emissions (CO2), per square kilometre: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monaco | 0.6574 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 2 | Singapore | 0.0585 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.7% | volatile |
| 3 | Maldives | 0.0128 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.9% | volatile |
| 4 | Japan | 0.0088 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.2% | rising |
| 5 | Spain | 0.0084 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.8% | volatile |
| 6 | Andorra | 0.006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.4% | volatile |
| 7 | France | 0.0043 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 8 | San Marino | 0.0038 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.3% | rising |
| 9 | Sierra Leone | 0.0032 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.2% | volatile |
| 10 | Ghana | 0.0031 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 475.6% | volatile |
| 11 | Portugal | 0.0022 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.3% | rising |
| 12 | Guatemala | 0.0019 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 50.4% | volatile |
| 13 | Italy | 0.0014 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.4% | rising |
| 14 | Costa Rica | 0.0013 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.4% | volatile |
| 15 | Tajikistan | 0.0011 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.7% | rising |
| 16 | Malta | 0.0009 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 27.8% | volatile |
| 17 | North Macedonia | 0.0008 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 18 | Czechia | 0.0007 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.0% | rising |
| 19 | Poland | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.4% | rising |
| 20 | Nepal | 0.0006 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 81.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Philippines | 0.0005 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.2% | volatile |
| 22 | China | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Sweden | 0.0004 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.9% | volatile |
| 24 | Brunei | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.5% | volatile |
| 25 | Panama | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 125.5% | volatile |
| 26 | Honduras | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.4% | volatile |
| 28 | Mexico | 0.0003 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.1% | volatile |
| 29 | Slovenia | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 36.5% | volatile |
| 30 | Malaysia | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.2% | volatile |
| 31 | Slovakia | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.0% | rising |
| 32 | Liechtenstein | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.3% | volatile |
| 33 | Nigeria | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.9% | volatile |
| 34 | United Kingdom | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 22.1% | volatile |
| 35 | Switzerland | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.4% | volatile |
| 36 | Hungary | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 69.0% | volatile |
| 37 | Lesotho | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.7% | volatile |
| 38 | Tunisia | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 53.3% | volatile |
| 39 | Vietnam | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 33.8% | volatile |
| 40 | Samoa | 0.0002 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 73.2% | volatile |
| 41 | Norway | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 39.6% | volatile |
| 42 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.2% | volatile |
| 43 | Ireland | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 46.4% | volatile |
| 44 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 19.6% | volatile |
| 45 | Albania | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.9% | volatile |
| 46 | Dominica | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.8% | rising |
| 47 | Rwanda | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.9% | volatile |
| 48 | Denmark | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.4% | rising |
| 49 | Bahamas | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.0% | volatile |
| 50 | Indonesia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.2% | volatile |
| 51 | Burundi | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.8% | volatile |
| 52 | Germany | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 81.9% | rising |
| 53 | Belgium | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 85.6% | volatile |
| 54 | Serbia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 55 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.4% | rising |
| 56 | Cambodia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.6% | volatile |
| 57 | Moldova | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.0% | rising |
| 58 | Myanmar | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.5% | volatile |
| 59 | Laos | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 37.4% | volatile |
| 60 | Jamaica | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 61 | Belarus | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 34.6% | volatile |
| 62 | Saint Lucia | 0.0001 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 63 | Montenegro | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 64 | Lithuania | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 203.4% | volatile |
| 65 | Thailand | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.9% | volatile |
| 66 | Brazil | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Azerbaijan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.2% | rising |
| 68 | Mauritius | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 69 | Kuwait | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.3% | volatile |
| 70 | South Africa | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.9% | volatile |
| 71 | Ukraine | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.2% | volatile |
| 72 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 41.3% | volatile |
| 73 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.4% | rising |
| 74 | Romania | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.9% | volatile |
| 75 | Mauritania | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 449.3% | volatile |
| 76 | Ecuador | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.1% | volatile |
| 77 | Colombia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.2% | volatile |
| 78 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.4% | rising |
| 79 | Guinea | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.0% | volatile |
| 80 | Greece | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 36.6% | volatile |
| 81 | Canada | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.8% | rising |
| 82 | Bulgaria | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 94.3% | volatile |
| 83 | Chile | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.8% | volatile |
| 84 | East Timor | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.7% | volatile |
| 85 | Mozambique | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 38.2% | volatile |
| 86 | Austria | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 87 | Dominican Republic | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.1% | volatile |
| 88 | Mali | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 60.6% | volatile |
| 89 | Afghanistan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.0% | volatile |
| 90 | New Zealand | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.0% | rising |
| 91 | Uruguay | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 92 | Peru | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.4% | volatile |
| 93 | Iceland | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 51.9% | volatile |
| 94 | Somalia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 51.1% | volatile |
| 95 | Cuba | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.3% | volatile |
| 96 | Togo | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 44.6% | volatile |
| 97 | Argentina | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.1% | rising |
| 98 | Belize | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 71.5% | volatile |
| 99 | Benin | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 46.0% | volatile |
| 100 | Namibia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.4% | volatile |
| 101 | Estonia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 59.2% | volatile |
| 102 | Qatar | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.3% | volatile |
| 103 | Zimbabwe | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 44.3% | volatile |
| 104 | Turkey | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 55.4% | volatile |
| 105 | Kenya | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 47.9% | volatile |
| 106 | Zambia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 29.1% | volatile |
| 107 | Jordan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.8% | volatile |
| 108 | Papua New Guinea | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.5% | volatile |
| 109 | Australia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 110 | Ethiopia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 56.2% | rising |
| 111 | Gabon | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.5% | volatile |
| 112 | Suriname | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.2% | volatile |
| 113 | Palau | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 114 | Algeria | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.6% | volatile |
| 115 | Burkina Faso | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 44.7% | volatile |
| 116 | Guyana | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 117 | Mongolia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.8% | volatile |
| 118 | Lebanon | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.5% | volatile |
| 119 | Egypt | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.5% | volatile |
| 120 | United States | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 121 | Paraguay | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.1% | volatile |
| 122 | Kazakhstan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2,426.3% | volatile |
| 123 | Bhutan | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 28.2% | volatile |
| 124 | Congo | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.6% | volatile |
| 125 | Croatia | 0 kt per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 125 | Latvia | 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 0.0002 kt per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
Waste — Emissions (CO2) 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 (CO2) ÷ 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 (CO2) 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.