Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Rice Cultivation by country

Countries reporting

118

Highest

4,895

China

Lowest

Saudi Arabia

Median

9.7

Years covered

1961–2050

Data points

6,718

What the numbers show

Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Rice Cultivation is currently reported for 118 countries. The highest value is 4,895 in China; the lowest is 0 in Saudi Arabia.

The median across all reporting countries is 9.7, and the mean is 199.24.

Over the past decade 1 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in Sudan (up 52.6%), and the largest decrease in Albania (down 100.0%).

Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Rice Cultivation: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	China	4,895	2050	—	falling
2	India	3,595	2050	—	rising
3	Indonesia	2,654	2050	—	rising
4	Myanmar	1,559	2050	—	rising
5	Philippines	1,447	2050	—	rising
6	Vietnam	1,233	2050	—	rising
7	Bangladesh	1,079	2050	—	rising
8	Thailand	962.11	2050	—	rising
9	Cambodia	677.66	2050	—	rising
10	United States	527.61	2050	—	rising
11	Nigeria	524.73	2050	—	volatile
12	Pakistan	375.29	2050	—	rising
13	Madagascar	286.57	2050	—	rising
14	Egypt	280	2050	—	rising
15	Japan	250.14	2050	—	falling
16	Brazil	179.32	2050	—	falling
17	Tanzania	162.67	2050	—	volatile
18	Iran	157.31	2050	—	rising
19	Nepal	156.84	2050	—	rising
20	Colombia	154.99	2050	—	rising
21	South Korea	150.69	2050	—	falling
22	North Korea	138.41	2050	—	rising
23	Malaysia	126.52	2050	—	rising
24	Peru	118.56	2050	—	volatile
25	Italy	114.64	2050	—	rising
26	Guinea	109	2050	—	volatile
27	Argentina	100.74	2050	—	rising
28	Venezuela	84.32	2050	—	rising
29	Ecuador	83.74	2050	—	volatile
30	Burkina Faso	82.61	2050	—	volatile
31	Laos	77.18	2050	—	rising
32	Sri Lanka	73.59	2050	—	rising
33	Russia	73.18	2050	—	rising
34	Dominican Republic	65.51	2050	—	rising
35	Uruguay	61.6	2050	—	volatile
36	Spain	54.96	2050	—	rising
37	Mali	54.09	2050	—	volatile
38	Turkey	53.79	2050	—	rising
39	Cuba	53.57	2050	—	rising
40	Iraq	53.05	2050	—	rising
41	Mozambique	52.7	2050	—	volatile
42	Taiwan	45.92	2050	—	falling
43	Sierra Leone	42.68	2050	—	rising
44	Afghanistan	41.33	2050	—	falling
45	Australia	36	2050	—	volatile
46	Guyana	31.55	2050	—	rising
47	Senegal	22.61	2050	—	volatile
48	Cote d'Ivoire	22.18	2050	—	rising
49	Ghana	22.17	2050	—	volatile
50	Uganda	21.31	2050	—	volatile
51	Kazakhstan	18.78	2050	—	rising
52	Suriname	16.78	2050	—	rising
53	Bolivia	16.08	2050	—	volatile
54	Democratic Republic of Congo	14.68	2050	—	volatile
55	Portugal	12.63	2050	—	falling
56	Greece	11.94	2050	—	rising
57	Uzbekistan	11.65	2050	—	volatile
58	Haiti	10.12	2050	—	rising
59	Mauritania	9.78	2050	—	volatile
60	Turkmenistan	9.62	2050	—	volatile
61	Paraguay	9.52	2050	—	volatile
62	France	9.43	2050	—	falling
63	Chad	8.62	2050	—	volatile
64	East Timor	8.18	2050	—	volatile
65	Malawi	8.07	2050	—	volatile
66	Guinea-Bissau	8.03	2050	—	rising
67	Ukraine	7.92	2050	—	falling
68	Comoros	7.39	2050	—	rising
69	Mexico	7.25	2050	—	falling
70	Gambia	7.01	2050	—	volatile
71	Cameroon	6.7	2050	—	volatile
72	Chile	5.62	2050	—	falling
73	Nicaragua	4.48	2050	—	volatile
74	Liberia	4.41	2050	—	rising
75	Burundi	4.22	2050	—	volatile
76	Rwanda	3.81	2050	—	volatile
77	Benin	3.78	2050	—	volatile
78	Tajikistan	3.72	2050	—	flat
79	Central African Republic	3.26	2050	—	volatile
80	Angola	3.17	2050	—	volatile
81	Bhutan	3.01	2050	—	falling
82	Niger	2.9	2050	—	rising
83	Morocco	2.46	2050	—	rising
84	Kenya	2.18	2050	—	volatile
85	Costa Rica	2.07	2050	—	falling
86	Panama	1.67	2050	—	falling
87	Sudan	1.62	2019	up 52.6%	rising
88	Romania	1.59	2050	—	volatile
89	Bulgaria	1.46	2050	—	falling
90	Kyrgyzstan	1.32	2050	—	rising
91	Ethiopia	1.05	2050	—	volatile
92	Togo	0.968	2050	—	volatile
93	North Macedonia	0.9164	2050	—	falling
94	Somalia	0.728	2050	—	volatile
95	Hungary	0.7179	2050	—	volatile
96	Fiji	0.684	2050	—	falling
97	Azerbaijan	0.4207	2050	—	flat
98	Trinidad and Tobago	0.3941	2050	—	falling
99	Honduras	0.3302	2050	—	falling
100	Guatemala	0.3246	2050	—	falling
101	South Africa	0.2883	2050	—	falling
102	El Salvador	0.1979	2050	—	volatile
103	Solomon Islands	0.1908	2050	—	volatile
104	Brunei	0.1664	2050	—	volatile
105	Algeria	0.1588	2050	—	volatile
106	Congo	0.1104	2050	—	volatile
107	Belize	0.1094	2050	—	rising
108	Papua New Guinea	0.0808	2050	—	falling
109	Gabon	0.0448	2050	—	rising
110	Micronesia (country)	0.0216	2050	—	rising
111	Eswatini	0.0113	2050	—	volatile
112	Syria	0.0056	1996	unchanged	volatile
113	Jamaica	0.001	2050	—	volatile
114	Albania	0	1995	down 100.0%	falling
114	Hong Kong	0	2050	—	volatile
114	Mauritius	0	2050	—	volatile
114	Puerto Rico	0	2050	—	volatile
114	Saudi Arabia	0	2050	—	volatile

About this data

Indicator: Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Rice Cultivation
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: 118 places, 6,718 data points, 1961–2050
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).