Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - On-farm energy use in Greenland
Greenland: Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - On-farm energy use was 0.0382 in 2019. ▲ Rising
Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - On-farm energy use in Greenland, 1990–2019
Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Climate Change, Emissions Totals, http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/GT.
Analysis
In 2019, emission totals - emissions (ch4) - on-farm energy use in Greenland stood at 0.0382. That is the highest value across all 30 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.4% on the previous year and up 35.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, emission totals - emissions (ch4) - on-farm energy use in Greenland peaked at 0.0382 in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.011, in 1990.
That places Greenland 138th out of 205 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 30 years of available data.
Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - On-farm energy use in Greenland, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 0.011 | — |
| 1991 | 0.0127 | +15.5% |
| 1992 | 0.0199 | +56.7% |
| 1993 | 0.0197 | -1.0% |
| 1994 | 0.0199 | +1.0% |
| 1995 | 0.0201 | +1.0% |
| 1996 | 0.0219 | +9.0% |
| 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 | 0.0372 | +4.5% |
| 2018 | 0.0373 | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 0.0382 | +2.4% |
Greenland compared with similar countries
- Greenland's 0.0382 is below the median for high income countries, which is 0.0719, 53% of the median. (75 countries reporting)
- Greenland's 0.0382 is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 0.0978, 39% of the median. (54 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - On-farm energy use 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | +56.7% | 0.0127 | 0.0199 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.0201 | 0.011 | 0.0277 | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.0276 | 0.0241 | 0.0297 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.0336 | 0.0296 | 0.0382 | 10 |
Countries ranked near Greenland
More reference data data for Greenland
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.2128 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0004 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0986 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.1141 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0041 (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 unit of GDP 0 metric tons per US$ of GDP (2023)
- Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture, per capita 0.0005 metric tons per person (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is emission totals - emissions (ch4) - on-farm energy use in Greenland?
- Emission totals - emissions (ch4) - on-farm energy use in Greenland was 0.0382 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) - on-farm energy use recorded in Greenland?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0382 in 2019.
- What is the lowest emission totals - emissions (ch4) - on-farm energy use recorded in Greenland?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.011 in 1990.
- How does Greenland rank for emission totals - emissions (ch4) - on-farm energy use?
- Greenland ranks 138th out of 205 countries with data for 2019.
- Is emission totals - emissions (ch4) - on-farm energy use rising or falling in Greenland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 35.0%. 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) - On-farm energy use. 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).