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Waste — Emissions (N2O), per capita by country

Waste — Emissions (N2O) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
186
Highest
0 kt per person
Israel
Lowest
0 kt per person
Nauru
Median
0 kt per person
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
10,734

What the numbers show

Waste — Emissions (N2O), per capita is currently reported for 186 countries. The highest value is 0 kt per person in Israel; the lowest is 0 kt per person in Nauru.

The median across all reporting countries is 0 kt per person, and the mean is 0 kt per person.

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

Over the past decade 129 countries rose and 57 fell. The largest increase was in Bhutan (up 14,472.1%), and the largest decrease in Jordan (down 31.4%).

Waste — Emissions (N2O), per capita: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Israel 0 kt per person 2023 up 1.5% rising
2 Albania 0 kt per person 2023 up 34.5% rising
3 Chile 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.2% rising
4 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 kt per person 2023 up 26.6% rising
5 North Macedonia 0 kt per person 2023 up 15.1% rising
6 Australia 0 kt per person 2023 down 2.2% rising
7 Lithuania 0 kt per person 2023 up 59.6% rising
8 Denmark 0 kt per person 2023 up 11.4% rising
9 Belize 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.4% flat
10 Spain 0 kt per person 2023 down 6.8% rising
11 Costa Rica 0 kt per person 2023 up 18.5% rising
12 Slovakia 0 kt per person 2023 up 34.5% rising
13 Finland 0 kt per person 2023 up 10.4% rising
14 Colombia 0 kt per person 2023 up 19.7% rising
15 Austria 0 kt per person 2023 up 3.7% rising
16 United Kingdom 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.9% rising
17 Iceland 0 kt per person 2023 up 10.0% rising
18 Latvia 0 kt per person 2023 up 25.2% rising
19 United States 0 kt per person 2023 up 9.5% rising
20 Canada 0 kt per person 2023 up 9.4% rising
21 Monaco 0 kt per person 2023 up 7.0% rising
22 Andorra 0 kt per person 2023 up 5.7% rising
23 France 0 kt per person 2023 up 5.7% rising
24 Estonia 0 kt per person 2023 down 7.8% rising
25 Germany 0 kt per person 2023 up 0.8% rising
26 Luxembourg 0 kt per person 2023 down 16.3% falling
27 Belgium 0 kt per person 2023 down 5.3% flat
28 Czechia 0 kt per person 2023 up 33.6% rising
29 Portugal 0 kt per person 2023 up 6.2% rising
30 Norway 0 kt per person 2023 down 14.1% rising
31 Italy 0 kt per person 2023 up 1.9% rising
32 San Marino 0 kt per person 2023 down 2.4% rising
33 New Zealand 0 kt per person 2023 up 23.4% rising
34 Ireland 0 kt per person 2023 down 0.4% rising
35 Greece 0 kt per person 2023 up 9.5% rising
36 Poland 0 kt per person 2023 up 11.4% rising
37 Hungary 0 kt per person 2023 up 22.8% rising
38 Slovenia 0 kt per person 2023 up 9.7% rising
39 Croatia 0 kt per person 2023 up 33.7% rising
40 Montenegro 0 kt per person 2023 up 16.2% rising
41 Serbia 0 kt per person 2023 up 15.5% rising
42 Romania 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.8% rising
43 Switzerland 0 kt per person 2023 up 2.6% rising
44 Liechtenstein 0 kt per person 2023 up 3.1% rising
45 China 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.6% rising
46 Argentina 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.7% rising
47 Sweden 0 kt per person 2023 down 2.6% rising
48 Turkey 0 kt per person 2023 up 6.5% rising
49 Cyprus 0 kt per person 2023 up 16.3% rising
50 Moldova 0 kt per person 2023 up 11.8% rising
51 Armenia 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.5% rising
52 Russia 0 kt per person 2023 up 2.0% rising
53 Kazakhstan 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.3% rising
54 Azerbaijan 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.1% rising
55 Myanmar 0 kt per person 2023 up 13.0% rising
56 Oman 0 kt per person 2023 up 22.8% flat
57 Morocco 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.0% rising
58 Tunisia 0 kt per person 2023 up 5.7% rising
59 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kt per person 2023 up 15.6% rising
60 Egypt 0 kt per person 2023 down 3.0% rising
61 Belarus 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.3% flat
62 Uzbekistan 0 kt per person 2023 up 5.1% rising
63 Brazil 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.1% rising
64 Bulgaria 0 kt per person 2023 up 9.7% rising
65 Mexico 0 kt per person 2023 up 7.9% rising
66 Japan 0 kt per person 2023 down 6.0% falling
67 Kuwait 0 kt per person 2023 down 5.5% rising
68 Ukraine 0 kt per person 2023 up 11.7% rising
69 Guyana 0 kt per person 2023 up 18.1% rising
70 Senegal 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.1% rising
71 Uruguay 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.2% rising
72 Lebanon 0 kt per person 2023 up 12.8% rising
73 Saudi Arabia 0 kt per person 2023 down 2.7% rising
74 Eritrea 0 kt per person 2023 up 13.7% rising
75 Barbados 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.7% rising
76 Peru 0 kt per person 2023 up 10.7% rising
77 Mauritius 0 kt per person 2023 up 0.8% rising
78 Dominica 0 kt per person 2023 up 7.6% rising
79 Samoa 0 kt per person 2023 up 11.7% rising
80 Antigua and Barbuda 0 kt per person 2023 up 1.9% rising
81 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.7% rising
82 Vietnam 0 kt per person 2023 up 11.4% rising
83 Algeria 0 kt per person 2023 up 0.2% rising
84 Mongolia 0 kt per person 2023 up 12.2% rising
85 Qatar 0 kt per person 2023 down 2.7% falling
86 Singapore 0 kt per person 2023 up 15.1% rising
87 Georgia 0 kt per person 2023 up 5.1% rising
88 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.3% rising
89 United Arab Emirates 0 kt per person 2023 down 18.4% rising
90 Panama 0 kt per person 2023 up 12.1% rising
91 Saint Lucia 0 kt per person 2023 up 3.0% rising
92 Maldives 0 kt per person 2023 down 25.8% rising
93 Niger 0 kt per person 2023 up 6.9% rising
94 Burkina Faso 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.7% rising
95 Bahamas 0 kt per person 2023 down 6.5% rising
96 Mauritania 0 kt per person 2023 down 1.4% rising
97 Nepal 0 kt per person 2023 up 19.0% rising
98 Cuba 0 kt per person 2023 down 15.8% rising
99 Fiji 0 kt per person 2023 up 22.9% rising
100 Malaysia 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.1% rising
101 El Salvador 0 kt per person 2023 up 7.6% rising
102 Tuvalu 0 kt per person 2023 up 40.1% flat
103 Tajikistan 0 kt per person 2023 up 27.5% rising
104 Tonga 0 kt per person 2023 up 23.3% rising
105 Seychelles 0 kt per person 2023 down 9.9% volatile
106 South Sudan 0 kt per person 2023 up 9.2% rising
107 Sudan 0 kt per person 2023 up 9.1% rising
108 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt per person 2023 down 6.9% flat
109 Malta 0 kt per person 2023 down 30.3% rising
110 Jamaica 0 kt per person 2023 up 3.2% flat
111 Libya 0 kt per person 2023 down 4.9% rising
112 Botswana 0 kt per person 2023 up 5.1% flat
113 Turkmenistan 0 kt per person 2023 down 5.2% flat
114 Laos 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.7% rising
115 Paraguay 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.3% rising
116 Guatemala 0 kt per person 2023 up 11.1% rising
117 Eswatini 0 kt per person 2023 up 13.1% rising
118 Malawi 0 kt per person 2023 up 6.1% flat
119 South Africa 0 kt per person 2023 down 8.1% rising
120 Dominican Republic 0 kt per person 2023 up 25.2% rising
121 Mali 0 kt per person 2023 down 8.1% rising
122 Indonesia 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.6% rising
123 Gabon 0 kt per person 2023 down 11.3% rising
124 Philippines 0 kt per person 2023 up 19.7% rising
125 India 0 kt per person 2023 up 9.9% rising
126 Sri Lanka 0 kt per person 2023 up 12.4% rising
127 Cameroon 0 kt per person 2023 down 5.3% rising
128 Grenada 0 kt per person 2023 up 5.2% rising
129 Thailand 0 kt per person 2023 up 7.4% rising
130 Ethiopia 0 kt per person 2023 down 0.2% rising
131 Kiribati 0 kt per person 2023 up 2.0% rising
132 Cambodia 0 kt per person 2023 up 5.6% rising
133 Chad 0 kt per person 2023 down 9.9% rising
134 Togo 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.5% rising
135 Nicaragua 0 kt per person 2023 up 7.3% rising
136 Vanuatu 0 kt per person 2023 down 1.3% flat
137 Iraq 0 kt per person 2023 up 6.1% rising
138 Ecuador 0 kt per person 2023 down 4.0% rising
139 Ghana 0 kt per person 2023 up 6.5% rising
140 Namibia 0 kt per person 2023 up 1.4% flat
141 Bangladesh 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.6% rising
142 Benin 0 kt per person 2023 up 2.4% rising
143 Djibouti 0 kt per person 2023 up 6.9% rising
144 Honduras 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.9% rising
145 Suriname 0 kt per person 2023 up 3.4% rising
146 Zimbabwe 0 kt per person 2023 down 5.4% falling
147 Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 up 5.0% rising
148 Kenya 0 kt per person 2023 down 2.1% falling
149 Aruba 0 kt per person 2023 up 6.2% rising
150 Pakistan 0 kt per person 2023 up 12.9% flat
151 Rwanda 0 kt per person 2023 up 1.3% rising
152 Cote d'Ivoire 0 kt per person 2023 up 12.1% rising
153 Lesotho 0 kt per person 2023 down 19.4% rising
154 Gambia 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.2% rising
155 Nigeria 0 kt per person 2023 down 0.8% rising
156 Papua New Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 down 1.9% volatile
157 Comoros 0 kt per person 2023 down 1.2% rising
158 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.9% rising
159 Somalia 0 kt per person 2023 down 0.2% rising
160 Afghanistan 0 kt per person 2023 down 4.0% rising
161 East Timor 0 kt per person 2023 down 4.1% falling
162 Syria 0 kt per person 2023 down 25.1% flat
163 Congo 0 kt per person 2023 up 15.9% rising
164 British Virgin Islands 0 kt per person 2023 down 3.9% falling
165 Jordan 0 kt per person 2023 down 31.4% flat
166 Zambia 0 kt per person 2023 down 8.6% falling
167 Sierra Leone 0 kt per person 2023 down 7.7% rising
168 Central African Republic 0 kt per person 2023 up 3.0% rising
169 Angola 0 kt per person 2023 down 8.9% rising
170 Uganda 0 kt per person 2023 down 17.3% flat
171 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 kt per person 2023 down 15.0% falling
172 Mozambique 0 kt per person 2023 down 4.8% rising
173 Yemen 0 kt per person 2023 down 13.3% rising
174 Haiti 0 kt per person 2023 down 5.6% rising
175 Solomon Islands 0 kt per person 2023 down 16.3% flat
176 Guinea-Bissau 0 kt per person 2023 up 1.6% rising
177 Burundi 0 kt per person 2023 up 279.7% falling
178 Liberia 0 kt per person 2023 up 7.2% falling
179 Brunei 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.7% falling
180 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 down 2.1% rising
181 Madagascar 0 kt per person 2023 down 14.5% falling
182 Bahrain 0 kt per person 2023 down 11.5% falling
183 Marshall Islands 0 kt per person 2023 up 108.8% rising
184 Bhutan 0 kt per person 2023 up 14,472.1% volatile
185 Palau 0 kt per person 2023 up 49.3% volatile
186 Nauru 0 kt per person 2023 down 11.4% falling

Regions and income groups

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

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Waste — Emissions (N2O) ÷ Population, total

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Indicator
Waste — Emissions (N2O), per capita
Unit
kt per person
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
187 places, 10,734 data points, 1961–2023
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Waste — Emissions (N2O) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.