Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Savanna fires in Ghana
Ghana: Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Savanna fires was 50.74 in 2019. ▼ Falling
Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Savanna fires in Ghana, 1990–2019
Source: FAO, FAOSTAT Climate Change, Emissions Totals, http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/GT.
Analysis
Ghana recorded 50.74 for emission totals - emissions (ch4) - savanna fires in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 30 years on record.
That represents a change of down 8.8% on the previous year and down 14.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, emission totals - emissions (ch4) - savanna fires in Ghana peaked at 97.73 in 1998 and was at its lowest, 50.74, in 2019.
Ghana ranks 14th of 209 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 30 years of available data.
Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - Savanna fires in Ghana, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 73.77 | — |
| 1991 | 73.77 | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 73.77 | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 73.77 | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 73.77 | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 73.77 | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 78.23 | +6.0% |
| 1997 | 78.12 | -0.1% |
| 1998 | 97.73 | +25.1% |
| 1999 | 74.19 | -24.1% |
| 2000 | 95.93 | +29.3% |
| 2001 | 70.6 | -26.4% |
| 2002 | 67.45 | -4.5% |
| 2003 | 77.96 | +15.6% |
| 2004 | 60.73 | -22.1% |
| 2005 | 92.95 | +53.1% |
| 2006 | 80.73 | -13.1% |
| 2007 | 70.95 | -12.1% |
| 2008 | 69.83 | -1.6% |
| 2009 | 59.22 | -15.2% |
| 2010 | 64.31 | +8.6% |
| 2011 | 78.6 | +22.2% |
| 2012 | 62.18 | -20.9% |
| 2013 | 70.9 | +14.0% |
| 2014 | 63.94 | -9.8% |
| 2015 | 67.84 | +6.1% |
| 2016 | 64.52 | -4.9% |
| 2017 | 62.35 | -3.4% |
| 2018 | 55.64 | -10.8% |
| 2019 | 50.74 | -8.8% |
Ghana compared with similar countries
- Ghana's 50.74 is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 1.78, 28.5× the median. (45 countries reporting)
- Ghana's 50.74 is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 11.93, 4.3× the median. (46 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 77.09 | 73.77 | 97.73 | 10 |
| 2000s | 74.64 | 59.22 | 95.93 | 10 |
| 2010s | 64.1 | 50.74 | 78.6 | 10 |
Countries ranked near Ghana
More reference data data for Ghana
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 0.2805 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 1.89 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 2.69 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.1989 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Agricultural Soils 2.69 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure applied to Soils 0.9405 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure Management 0.9478 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Manure left on Pasture 8.22 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 12.64 (2050)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 1.08 (2050)
Frequently asked questions
- What is emission totals - emissions (ch4) - savanna fires in Ghana?
- Emission totals - emissions (ch4) - savanna fires in Ghana was 50.74 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) - savanna fires recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 97.73 in 1998.
- What is the lowest emission totals - emissions (ch4) - savanna fires recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 50.74 in 2019.
- How does Ghana rank for emission totals - emissions (ch4) - savanna fires?
- Ghana ranks 14th out of 209 countries with data for 2019.
- Is emission totals - emissions (ch4) - savanna fires rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is down 14.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Ghana 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) - Savanna fires. 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).