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

Countries reporting

102

Highest

343,065

Indonesia

Lowest

0.5668

Turkey

Median

1,010

Years covered

1990–2019

Data points

2,954

What the numbers show

Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - Drained organic soils is currently reported for 102 countries. The highest value is 343,065 in Indonesia; the lowest is 0.5668 in Turkey.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,010, and the mean is 7,996.

Over the past decade 34 countries rose and 57 fell. The largest increase was in Venezuela (up 38.2%), and the largest decrease in Nicaragua (down 24.6%).

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

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Indonesia	343,065	2019	up 9.0%	rising
2	Malaysia	47,854	2019	up 13.3%	rising
3	United States	46,991	2019	down 1.1%	flat
4	Russia	35,425	2019	up 3.9%	flat
5	Papua New Guinea	32,273	2019	down 1.2%	rising
6	Belarus	26,947	2019	down 1.3%	flat
7	Canada	24,222	2019	up 1.4%	flat
8	Bangladesh	23,958	2019	down 1.1%	flat
9	Myanmar	19,107	2019	down 0.8%	flat
10	Poland	16,348	2019	down 0.8%	falling
11	Germany	13,279	2019	down 1.8%	falling
12	Ukraine	12,729	2019	down 0.7%	falling
13	Finland	8,685	2019	up 9.0%	rising
14	South Sudan	8,653	2019	down 0.9%	flat
15	Uganda	8,119	2019	down 0.2%	flat
16	Ethiopia	7,662	2019	down 3.7%	flat
17	India	6,919	2019	down 0.4%	flat
18	United Kingdom	6,842	2019	up 0.0%	flat
19	Mongolia	6,483	2019	down 1.2%	flat
20	Hungary	6,287	2019	down 0.2%	flat
21	Sweden	6,162	2019	up 18.2%	rising
22	Madagascar	6,132	2019	up 0.9%	flat
23	France	5,951	2019	down 0.2%	falling
24	Lithuania	5,856	2019	down 1.8%	flat
25	Tanzania	5,604	2019	down 2.0%	falling
26	Vietnam	5,283	2019	down 5.4%	flat
27	Guyana	4,823	2019	down 1.0%	rising
28	Japan	4,546	2019	down 9.9%	falling
29	Congo	4,089	2019	up 18.4%	flat
30	Argentina	3,935	2019	down 0.3%	flat
31	Burundi	3,921	2019	down 1.5%	rising
32	Nepal	3,337	2019	down 2.3%	rising
33	Cote d'Ivoire	3,264	2019	up 1.6%	rising
34	Estonia	3,138	2019	up 1.3%	rising
35	Latvia	3,011	2019	down 0.8%	rising
36	Australia	2,916	2019	down 0.4%	flat
37	Ireland	2,904	2019	down 0.5%	flat
38	Netherlands	2,867	2019	down 1.6%	falling
39	Venezuela	2,536	2019	up 38.2%	rising
40	Rwanda	2,290	2019	down 2.8%	flat
41	Cameroon	2,228	2019	up 6.8%	rising
42	Norway	2,192	2019	up 6.9%	rising
43	China	2,163	2019	up 0.4%	rising
44	Sri Lanka	1,547	2019	down 4.1%	falling
45	Greece	1,536	2019	down 1.2%	flat
46	New Zealand	1,532	2019	down 0.7%	flat
47	Thailand	1,460	2019	up 0.7%	falling
48	Denmark	1,420	2019	down 0.8%	flat
49	Bulgaria	1,301	2019	down 1.3%	flat
50	Malawi	1,179	2019	down 3.7%	flat
51	Guinea	1,084	2019	up 3.5%	falling
52	Panama	936.07	2019	up 0.1%	flat
53	Colombia	913.34	2019	up 6.8%	rising
54	Botswana	890.09	2019	down 1.5%	rising
55	Italy	870.91	2019	down 0.2%	flat
56	Gabon	870.55	2019	up 2.7%	rising
57	Suriname	869.47	2019	down 0.8%	rising
58	Romania	646.82	2019	down 0.4%	flat
59	Democratic Republic of Congo	637.9	2019	down 0.5%	flat
60	Chile	563.95	2019	up 4.1%	flat
61	Spain	505.32	2019	down 4.8%	rising
62	South Africa	476.81	2019	up 0.2%	rising
63	Angola	467.85	2019	down 3.2%	flat
64	Switzerland	414.13	2019	up 0.9%	falling
65	Brazil	412.86	2019	up 3.8%	rising
66	Brunei	358.59	2019	down 6.5%	falling
67	Portugal	334.16	2019	down 4.5%	falling
68	Jamaica	316.46	2019	up 4.5%	rising
69	Belize	243.43	2019	up 9.3%	falling
70	Belgium	184.94	2019	down 0.9%	flat
71	Iceland	171.89	2019	up 0.2%	flat
72	Liberia	170.84	2019	down 2.6%	rising
73	Slovenia	168.48	2019	up 1.9%	rising
74	Uruguay	167.07	2019	down 1.1%	flat
75	Peru	161.65	2019	down 0.7%	rising
76	Costa Rica	161.25	2019	down 18.7%	falling
77	Czechia	154.55	2019	up 0.0%	falling
78	Kenya	137.23	2019	down 1.9%	flat
79	Austria	134.13	2019	down 1.3%	flat
80	Moldova	130.4	2019	down 1.3%	falling
81	Albania	126.33	2019	down 2.1%	flat
82	Ecuador	120.14	2019	unchanged	volatile
83	Fiji	118.85	2019	down 0.0%	flat
84	Ghana	108.4	2019	down 6.1%	falling
85	Puerto Rico	103.33	2019	up 1.4%	falling
86	North Korea	91.73	2019	up 13.1%	rising
87	Central African Republic	71.48	2019	up 29.7%	rising
88	Nicaragua	68.63	2019	down 24.6%	falling
89	Bosnia and Herzegovina	64.76	2019	down 3.6%	falling
90	Faroe Islands	54.11	2019	unchanged	flat
91	Slovakia	39.12	2019	up 0.1%	falling
92	Montenegro	31.63	2019	unchanged	flat
93	Croatia	12.84	2019	unchanged	falling
94	Eritrea	5.85	2019	unchanged	flat
95	Isle of Man	5.01	2019	down 0.1%	flat
96	Namibia	3.46	2019	unchanged	flat
97	Serbia	3.06	2019	unchanged	flat
98	Luxembourg	2.58	2019	up 2.1%	flat
99	Guinea-Bissau	1.15	2019	unchanged	falling
100	Solomon Islands	0.8428	2019	unchanged	flat
101	Equatorial Guinea	0.6066	2019	unchanged	flat
102	Turkey	0.5668	2019	unchanged	flat

About this data

Indicator: Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - Drained organic soils
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: 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).