Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Farm-gate emissions in Greenland
Greenland: Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Farm-gate emissions was 0.0423 in 2019. ▲ Rising
Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Farm-gate emissions in Greenland, 1990–2019
Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Climate Change, Emissions Totals, http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/GT.
Analysis
Greenland recorded 0.0423 for emission totals - emissions (ch4) - farm-gate emissions in 2019.
That represents a change of up 13.4% on the previous year and up 49.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, emission totals - emissions (ch4) - farm-gate emissions in Greenland peaked at 0.0722 in 2017 and was at its lowest, 0.017, in 1990.
That places Greenland 198th out of 212 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 30 years of available data.
Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Farm-gate emissions in Greenland, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 0.017 | — |
| 1991 | 0.0187 | +10.0% |
| 1992 | 0.0259 | +38.5% |
| 1993 | 0.0258 | -0.4% |
| 1994 | 0.0259 | +0.4% |
| 1995 | 0.0261 | +0.8% |
| 1996 | 0.0219 | -16.1% |
| 1997 | 0.0241 | +10.0% |
| 1998 | 0.0241 | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 0.0277 | +14.9% |
| 2000 | 0.0297 | +7.2% |
| 2001 | 0.0297 | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 0.0297 | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 0.0241 | -18.9% |
| 2004 | 0.0248 | +2.9% |
| 2005 | 0.0263 | +6.0% |
| 2006 | 0.0261 | -0.8% |
| 2007 | 0.0292 | +11.9% |
| 2008 | 0.028 | -4.1% |
| 2009 | 0.0283 | +1.1% |
| 2010 | 0.0301 | +6.4% |
| 2011 | 0.0296 | -1.7% |
| 2012 | 0.0314 | +6.1% |
| 2013 | 0.0314 | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 0.0329 | +4.8% |
| 2015 | 0.0325 | -1.2% |
| 2016 | 0.0356 | +9.5% |
| 2017 | 0.0722 | +102.8% |
| 2018 | 0.0373 | -48.3% |
| 2019 | 0.0423 | +13.4% |
Greenland compared with similar countries
- Greenland's 0.0423 is below the median for high income countries, which is 36.58, 0% of the median. (80 countries reporting)
- Greenland's 0.0423 is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 120.9, 0% of the median. (54 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Farm-gate emissions in Greenland changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | +102.8% | 0.0356 | 0.0722 |
| 2018 | -48.3% | 0.0722 | 0.0373 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.0237 | 0.017 | 0.0277 | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.0276 | 0.0241 | 0.0297 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.0375 | 0.0296 | 0.0722 | 10 |
Countries ranked near Greenland
- 195 Marshall Islands 0.0752 compare
- 196 Channel Islands 0.0578 compare
- 197 Macao 0.0544 compare
- 199 Aruba 0.0196 compare
- 200 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0089 compare
- 201 Isle of Man 0.0062 compare
More reference data data for Greenland
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0004 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0986 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0041 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.1141 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.2128 (2019)
- Official exchange rate, LCU per USD, period average 6.82 (2017)
- Annual precipitation, annual growth rate 7.26 % change on previous year (2025)
- Landline phone subscriptions, per capita 0.0882 units per person (2022)
- Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture, per capita 0.0005 metric tons per person (2024)
- How have things changed?, annual growth rate -16.61 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is emission totals - emissions (ch4) - farm-gate emissions in Greenland?
- Emission totals - emissions (ch4) - farm-gate emissions in Greenland was 0.0423 in 2019, according to FAO, FAOSTAT Climate Change, Emissions Totals, http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/GT.
- What is the highest emission totals - emissions (ch4) - farm-gate emissions recorded in Greenland?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0722 in 2017.
- What is the lowest emission totals - emissions (ch4) - farm-gate emissions recorded in Greenland?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.017 in 1990.
- How does Greenland rank for emission totals - emissions (ch4) - farm-gate emissions?
- Greenland ranks 198th out of 212 countries with data for 2019.
- Is emission totals - emissions (ch4) - farm-gate emissions rising or falling in Greenland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 49.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Greenland data come from?
- The figures come from FAO, FAOSTAT Climate Change, Emissions Totals, http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/GT, published as part of Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Farm-gate emissions. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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).