Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - Drained organic soils (N2O) by country

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...

Countries reporting
102
Highest
31,612 N2O
Indonesia
Lowest
0.0509 N2O
Turkey
Median
122.75 N2O
Years covered
30
1990–2019
Data points
2,954

What the numbers show

Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - Drained organic soils (N2O) is currently reported for 102 countries. The highest value is 31,612 N2O in Indonesia; the lowest is 0.0509 N2O in Turkey.

The median across all reporting countries is 122.75 N2O, and the mean is 1,050 N2O.

Over the past decade 37 countries rose and 54 fell. The largest increase was in Venezuela (up 37.0%), and the largest decrease in Nicaragua (down 25.0%).

Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - Drained organic soils: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Indonesia 31,612 N2O 2019 up 8.6% rising
2 United States 7,036 N2O 2019 down 0.8% flat
3 Russia 6,249 N2O 2019 up 3.7% flat
4 Belarus 4,907 N2O 2019 down 0.8% flat
5 Canada 4,349 N2O 2019 up 1.7% flat
6 Malaysia 4,276 N2O 2019 up 12.5% rising
7 United Kingdom 4,205 N2O 2019 down 0.1% flat
8 Germany 3,652 N2O 2019 down 0.3% flat
9 Mongolia 3,539 N2O 2019 down 0.5% flat
10 Poland 3,470 N2O 2019 down 0.4% flat
11 Papua New Guinea 2,738 N2O 2019 down 1.1% rising
12 Bangladesh 2,221 N2O 2019 down 0.9% flat
13 Ukraine 2,186 N2O 2019 down 0.5% falling
14 Myanmar 1,847 N2O 2019 down 0.8% flat
15 South Sudan 1,814 N2O 2019 down 0.5% flat
16 Ireland 1,809 N2O 2019 down 0.5% flat
17 Finland 1,744 N2O 2019 up 9.3% rising
18 Sweden 1,344 N2O 2019 up 19.9% rising
19 Lithuania 1,153 N2O 2019 down 1.4% flat
20 Netherlands 998.48 N2O 2019 down 0.3% flat
21 Argentina 985.29 N2O 2019 up 0.2% flat
22 Norway 898.59 N2O 2019 up 3.9% rising
23 Ethiopia 802.31 N2O 2019 down 2.6% flat
24 Uganda 756.92 N2O 2019 down 0.2% flat
25 Madagascar 713.46 N2O 2019 up 0.9% rising
26 France 695.83 N2O 2019 up 0.0% falling
27 Tanzania 661.16 N2O 2019 down 2.3% falling
28 Latvia 658.86 N2O 2019 down 0.2% rising
29 India 653.9 N2O 2019 down 0.6% flat
30 Hungary 633.44 N2O 2019 down 0.3% flat
31 Estonia 612.36 N2O 2019 up 1.5% rising
32 Japan 500.7 N2O 2019 down 8.4% falling
33 China 498.77 N2O 2019 up 0.2% flat
34 Guyana 488.7 N2O 2019 down 0.9% rising
35 Burundi 444.95 N2O 2019 down 1.1% rising
36 Vietnam 441 N2O 2019 down 5.4% flat
37 New Zealand 400.14 N2O 2019 down 0.0% flat
38 Australia 398.84 N2O 2019 down 0.4% flat
39 Nepal 391.89 N2O 2019 down 2.0% rising
40 Congo 369.97 N2O 2019 up 17.8% flat
41 Denmark 280.27 N2O 2019 down 0.2% flat
42 Cote d'Ivoire 275.95 N2O 2019 up 1.6% rising
43 Venezuela 253.33 N2O 2019 up 37.0% rising
44 Rwanda 220.86 N2O 2019 down 1.5% flat
45 Sri Lanka 198.58 N2O 2019 down 3.2% falling
46 Cameroon 188.03 N2O 2019 up 6.7% rising
47 Thailand 164.77 N2O 2019 up 0.8% falling
48 Chile 156.7 N2O 2019 up 3.9% flat
49 Greece 147.4 N2O 2019 down 1.3% flat
50 Iceland 134.8 N2O 2019 up 0.2% flat
51 Bulgaria 128.74 N2O 2019 down 1.3% flat
52 Guinea 116.76 N2O 2019 up 3.5% falling
53 Colombia 115.41 N2O 2019 up 6.6% rising
54 Switzerland 114.43 N2O 2019 up 1.3% falling
55 Malawi 104.53 N2O 2019 down 3.6% flat
56 Brazil 96.41 N2O 2019 up 4.2% rising
57 Panama 92.21 N2O 2019 up 0.1% flat
58 South Africa 84.17 N2O 2019 up 0.1% rising
59 Suriname 82.3 N2O 2019 down 0.8% rising
60 Italy 77.27 N2O 2019 down 0.2% flat
61 Botswana 75.26 N2O 2019 down 1.5% rising
62 Gabon 73.45 N2O 2019 up 2.7% rising
63 Romania 63.75 N2O 2019 up 0.4% flat
64 Spain 59.77 N2O 2019 down 4.3% rising
65 Democratic Republic of Congo 56.45 N2O 2019 down 0.6% flat
66 Angola 44.5 N2O 2019 down 2.9% flat
67 Austria 42.52 N2O 2019 up 0.6% rising
68 Portugal 39.7 N2O 2019 down 3.5% flat
69 Jamaica 38.08 N2O 2019 up 5.7% rising
70 Faroe Islands 37.51 N2O 2019 unchanged flat
71 Belize 37 N2O 2019 up 10.8% rising
72 Czechia 35.42 N2O 2019 up 0.2% falling
73 Kenya 31.17 N2O 2019 down 1.5% flat
74 Brunei 30.76 N2O 2019 down 6.7% falling
75 Uruguay 29.1 N2O 2019 down 0.7% flat
76 Belgium 25.63 N2O 2019 down 0.8% flat
77 Slovenia 21.16 N2O 2019 up 3.1% rising
78 Costa Rica 20.12 N2O 2019 down 16.5% falling
79 Moldova 19.31 N2O 2019 down 1.7% falling
80 Liberia 15.99 N2O 2019 down 1.8% rising
81 North Korea 15.35 N2O 2019 up 13.2% rising
82 Bosnia and Herzegovina 14.84 N2O 2019 down 4.4% flat
83 Peru 14.78 N2O 2019 down 0.9% rising
84 Ecuador 12.87 N2O 2019 unchanged volatile
85 Fiji 12.49 N2O 2019 down 0.1% flat
86 Albania 12.19 N2O 2019 down 2.1% flat
87 Ghana 10.58 N2O 2019 down 7.0% falling
88 Puerto Rico 10.29 N2O 2019 up 1.3% falling
89 Nicaragua 8.27 N2O 2019 down 25.0% falling
90 Slovakia 8.01 N2O 2019 up 0.7% flat
91 Central African Republic 6.6 N2O 2019 up 29.4% rising
92 Isle of Man 3.38 N2O 2019 down 1.8% flat
93 Montenegro 2.63 N2O 2019 unchanged flat
94 Croatia 1.12 N2O 2019 unchanged falling
95 Namibia 0.8497 N2O 2019 unchanged flat
96 Luxembourg 0.6024 N2O 2019 up 1.5% flat
97 Eritrea 0.5252 N2O 2019 unchanged flat
98 Serbia 0.2778 N2O 2019 unchanged flat
99 Guinea-Bissau 0.0956 N2O 2019 unchanged falling
100 Solomon Islands 0.0702 N2O 2019 unchanged flat
101 Equatorial Guinea 0.0545 N2O 2019 unchanged flat
102 Turkey 0.0509 N2O 2019 unchanged flat

About this data

Indicator
Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - Drained organic soils (N2O)
Unit
N2O
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
102 places, 2,954 data points, 1990–2019
Last refreshed

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).