Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - Land Use change by country

Countries reporting

211

Highest

663,268

Brazil

Lowest

Niue

Median

46.59

Years covered

1990–2019

Data points

6,210

What the numbers show

Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - Land Use change is currently reported for 211 countries. The highest value is 663,268 in Brazil; the lowest is 0 in Niue.

The median across all reporting countries is 46.59, and the mean is 16,357.

Over the past decade 50 countries rose and 71 fell. The largest increase was in United States (up 2,620,460.0%), and the largest decrease in Belgium (down 100.0%).

Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - Land Use change: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Brazil	663,268	2019	down 58.7%	falling
2	Indonesia	657,566	2019	up 33.5%	volatile
3	Democratic Republic of Congo	623,745	2019	up 59.3%	rising
4	Canada	96,117	2019	down 13.0%	falling
5	Peru	93,002	2019	up 19.2%	rising
6	Myanmar	89,332	2019	down 24.1%	falling
7	Colombia	82,642	2019	down 6.9%	falling
8	Bolivia	76,773	2019	up 30.6%	falling
9	Tanzania	63,114	2019	up 21.4%	rising
10	United States	59,728	2019	up 2,620,460.0%	volatile
11	Mozambique	57,400	2019	up 5.5%	rising
12	Argentina	54,768	2019	down 57.2%	flat
13	Paraguay	48,225	2019	down 15.0%	rising
14	Angola	47,880	2019	up 0.3%	rising
15	Nigeria	46,146	2019	up 0.0%	falling
16	Botswana	40,514	2019	unchanged	flat
17	Venezuela	40,439	2019	down 51.9%	falling
18	Malaysia	39,445	2019	down 27.6%	falling
19	Russia	34,534	2019	—	volatile
20	Cameroon	33,745	2019	down 18.4%	falling
21	Cambodia	32,786	2019	up 339.6%	volatile
22	Ethiopia	31,401	2019	up 3.6%	rising
23	Central African Republic	26,278	2019	down 4.9%	rising
24	Ecuador	26,044	2019	down 10.4%	falling
25	Chad	23,976	2019	up 39.1%	rising
26	Sweden	23,845	2019	down 34.9%	falling
27	Cote d'Ivoire	23,661	2019	down 0.1%	falling
28	Sudan	21,003	2019	down 2.7%	flat
29	Nicaragua	20,528	2019	down 13.9%	falling
30	Somalia	17,352	2019	unchanged	flat
31	Mexico	15,375	2019	down 0.6%	falling
32	Liberia	13,870	2019	down 2.9%	flat
33	Laos	13,809	2019	up 4.1%	rising
34	Thailand	12,790	2019	up 72.3%	falling
35	Papua New Guinea	11,515	2019	up 238.7%	volatile
36	Guinea	11,491	2019	up 9.8%	rising
37	Benin	10,810	2019	down 0.3%	falling
38	Namibia	10,558	2019	up 0.0%	flat
39	Uganda	10,503	2019	up 0.1%	flat
40	Guyana	9,782	2019	up 107.7%	volatile
41	Suriname	8,587	2019	up 170.0%	volatile
42	Malawi	7,273	2019	up 1.0%	flat
43	Congo	7,150	2019	up 16.8%	rising
44	Pakistan	6,995	2019	down 1.0%	falling
45	South Africa	6,664	2019	up 0.4%	flat
46	Serbia	6,636	2019	—	volatile
47	Burkina Faso	6,505	2019	down 11.1%	falling
48	Gabon	5,711	2019	up 133.8%	rising
49	Honduras	5,709	2019	up 1.7%	flat
50	Belize	5,104	2019	up 65.2%	falling
51	Romania	5,094	2019	—	volatile
52	Madagascar	4,861	2019	down 77.9%	falling
53	Guatemala	4,518	2019	down 72.1%	falling
54	Senegal	4,010	2019	down 1.1%	falling
55	Panama	3,847	2019	down 10.3%	falling
56	Equatorial Guinea	3,832	2019	up 0.0%	falling
57	Sierra Leone	3,487	2019	down 0.6%	flat
58	Bulgaria	3,248	2019	down 6.5%	falling
59	North Korea	3,123	2019	up 1.6%	falling
60	South Korea	2,795	2019	down 21.8%	rising
61	Denmark	2,261	2019	—	volatile
62	New Zealand	1,795	2019	up 1,116.3%	volatile
63	Japan	1,720	2019	up 118.7%	volatile
64	Guinea-Bissau	1,636	2019	down 6.6%	flat
65	Ukraine	1,443	2019	down 32.7%	volatile
66	Australia	1,307	2019	down 98.1%	volatile
67	Niger	1,276	2019	down 2.2%	volatile
68	Slovenia	1,162	2019	up 409.6%	volatile
69	Togo	1,148	2019	down 0.4%	falling
70	El Salvador	1,146	2019	up 0.3%	flat
71	Nepal	1,131	2019	up 70.4%	volatile
72	Czechia	958.87	2019	up 50.4%	rising
73	Northern Mariana Islands	909.6	2019	up 522.1%	volatile
74	Spain	807.81	2019	—	volatile
75	Lithuania	696.68	2019	—	volatile
76	Mauritania	668.48	2019	up 5.9%	rising
77	Eritrea	656.38	2019	up 6.1%	rising
78	Algeria	637.9	2019	—	volatile
79	Haiti	624.45	2019	up 201.3%	volatile
80	Dominican Republic	605.31	2019	up 61,938.1%	volatile
81	Sri Lanka	598.46	2019	down 45.0%	volatile
82	Latvia	581.14	2019	—	volatile
83	Gambia	527.72	2019	up 0.0%	falling
84	Switzerland	511.02	2019	up 6.0%	rising
85	South Sudan	484.45	2019	down 50.7%	falling
86	East Timor	464.75	2019	down 0.6%	flat
87	Azerbaijan	454.88	2019	up 151.7%	volatile
88	Croatia	453.61	2019	up 85.6%	volatile
89	Iraq	451.77	2019	—	volatile
90	India	405.86	2019	down 98.4%	volatile
91	Hungary	363.11	2019	—	volatile
92	Eswatini	347.68	2019	down 1.4%	flat
93	Syria	336.16	2019	—	volatile
94	Austria	225.94	2019	up 44.6%	volatile
95	Sao Tome and Principe	215.31	2019	up 2,284.6%	volatile
96	Solomon Islands	210.09	2019	up 11.2%	falling
97	Egypt	182.82	2019	—	volatile
98	Mongolia	154.27	2019	down 86.2%	volatile
99	Vietnam	116.56	2019	down 11.3%	volatile
100	Samoa	104.26	2019	down 0.5%	flat
101	Trinidad and Tobago	83.89	2019	down 0.8%	falling
102	Israel	81.77	2019	—	volatile
103	Mali	80.26	2019	down 98.3%	volatile
104	Comoros	59.96	2019	down 0.9%	flat
105	Singapore	49.65	2019	—	volatile
106	Netherlands	46.59	2019	up 4.4%	volatile
107	New Caledonia	39.61	2019	—	volatile
108	Armenia	36.07	2019	down 82.6%	volatile
109	Costa Rica	35.85	2019	down 87.1%	volatile
110	Cyprus	30.34	2019	up 161.1%	volatile
111	Brunei	28.53	2019	down 97.3%	volatile
112	Oman	22.98	2019	—	volatile
113	Ghana	21.33	2019	down 99.9%	volatile
114	Bangladesh	21.26	2019	down 96.9%	volatile
115	Philippines	20.69	2019	down 99.9%	volatile
116	Tunisia	16.21	2019	up 39.7%	volatile
117	Bahamas	14.33	2019	down 31.6%	volatile
118	American Samoa	9.23	2019	up 15.0%	rising
119	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	3.75	2019	unchanged	volatile
120	Cuba	3.04	2019	down 96.2%	volatile
121	Mauritius	2.69	2019	down 97.1%	volatile
122	Kazakhstan	2.62	2019	down 99.8%	volatile
123	Fiji	0.8671	2019	down 96.2%	volatile
124	Bhutan	0.1086	2019	down 97.8%	volatile
125	Kenya	0.1083	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
126	Greece	0.0475	2019	—	volatile
127	Aruba	0	2019	—	flat
127	Afghanistan	0	2019	—	flat
127	Albania	0	2019	—	flat
127	Andorra	0	2019	—	flat
127	United Arab Emirates	0	2019	—	flat
127	Antigua and Barbuda	0	2019	—	flat
127	Burundi	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Belgium	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Bahrain	0	2019	—	flat
127	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	2019	—	flat
127	Belarus	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Bermuda	0	2019	—	flat
127	Barbados	0	2019	—	flat
127	Chile	0	2019	—	volatile
127	China	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Cape Verde	0	2019	—	flat
127	Cayman Islands	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Germany	0	2019	—	flat
127	Dominica	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Estonia	0	2019	—	flat
127	Finland	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	France	0	2019	—	flat
127	Faroe Islands	0	2019	—	flat
127	Micronesia (country)	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	United Kingdom	0	2019	—	flat
127	Georgia	0	2019	—	flat
127	Gibraltar	0	2019	—	flat
127	Grenada	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Greenland	0	2019	—	flat
127	Guam	0	2019	—	flat
127	Hong Kong	0	2019	—	flat
127	Isle of Man	0	2019	—	flat
127	Ireland	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Iran	0	2019	—	flat
127	Iceland	0	2019	—	flat
127	Italy	0	2019	—	flat
127	Jamaica	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Jordan	0	2019	—	flat
127	Kyrgyzstan	0	2019	—	flat
127	Kiribati	0	2019	—	flat
127	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	2019	—	flat
127	Kuwait	0	2019	—	flat
127	Lebanon	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Libya	0	2019	—	flat
127	Saint Lucia	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Liechtenstein	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Lesotho	0	2019	—	flat
127	Luxembourg	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Macao	0	2019	—	flat
127	Morocco	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Monaco	0	2019	—	flat
127	Moldova	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Maldives	0	2019	—	flat
127	Marshall Islands	0	2019	—	flat
127	North Macedonia	0	2019	—	flat
127	Malta	0	2019	—	flat
127	Montenegro	0	2019	—	flat
127	Norway	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Nauru	0	2019	—	flat
127	Palau	0	2019	—	flat
127	Poland	0	2019	—	flat
127	Puerto Rico	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Portugal	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Palestine	0	2019	—	flat
127	French Polynesia	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Qatar	0	2019	—	flat
127	Rwanda	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Saudi Arabia	0	2019	—	flat
127	San Marino	0	2019	—	flat
127	Slovakia	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Seychelles	0	2019	—	flat
127	Turks and Caicos Islands	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Tajikistan	0	2019	—	flat
127	Turkmenistan	0	2019	—	flat
127	Tonga	0	2019	—	flat
127	Turkey	0	2019	—	flat
127	Tuvalu	0	2019	—	flat
127	Uruguay	0	2019	—	flat
127	Uzbekistan	0	2019	—	volatile
127	British Virgin Islands	0	2019	—	volatile
127	United States Virgin Islands	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile
127	Vanuatu	0	2019	—	volatile
127	Taiwan	0	2019	—	flat
127	Cook Islands	0	2019	—	flat
127	Niue	0	2019	down 100.0%	volatile

About this data

Indicator: Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - Land Use change
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: 212 places, 6,210 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).