How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Lesotho?

30 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2019.

Costa Rica vs Lesotho: Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Savanna fires

Costa Rica

0.2959

in 2019

Lesotho

0.3291

in 2019

Costa Rica rank

84th

Lesotho rank

83rd

Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Savanna fires over time

Costa Rica
Lesotho

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 0.3291 against 0.2959 in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.0332.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.1 times Costa Rica's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 30 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Lesotho ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 84th and Lesotho ranks 83rd of 207 countries.

Lesotho has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Costa Rica	Lesotho	Difference	Ahead
1990s	0.1658	1.54	1.38	Lesotho
2000s	0.1993	0.805	0.6057	Lesotho
2010s	0.2842	0.4858	0.2016	Lesotho

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher emission totals - emissions (ch4) - savanna fires, Costa Rica or Lesotho?: Lesotho, at 0.3291 against 0.2959 in Costa Rica as of 2019.
What is the difference in emission totals - emissions (ch4) - savanna fires between Costa Rica and Lesotho?: 0.0332, with Lesotho ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Lesotho?: 30 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2019.
How do Costa Rica and Lesotho rank globally for emission totals - emissions (ch4) - savanna fires?: Costa Rica ranks 84th and Lesotho ranks 83rd of 207 countries.
Where does this data come from?: FAO, FAOSTAT Climate Change, Emissions Totals, http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/GT, published as Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Savanna fires. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Savanna fires
Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Climate Change, Emissions Totals, http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/GT
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 209 places, 6,120 data points, 1990–2019
Last refreshed: 10 August 2026

The FAOSTAT domain Emissions Totals summarizes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated from agriculture and forest land. They consist of methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from crop and livestock activities, forest management and include land use and land use change processes. Data are computed at Tier 1 of the IPCC Guidelines for National greenhouse gas (GHG) Inventories (IPCC, 1996; 1997; 2000; 2002; 2006; 2014). Estimates are available by country, with global coverage for the period 1961–2019 with projections for 2030 and 2050 for some categories of emissions or 1990–2019 for others. The database is updated annually. The FAOSTAT domain Emissions Totals disseminates information estimates of CH4, N2O and CO2 emissions/removals and their aggregates in CO2eq in units of kilotonnes (kt, or 106 kg). The latter are computed by using the IPCC Fifth Assessment report global warming potentials, AR5 (IPCC, 2014).