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

Countries reporting

102

Highest

119.29 N2O

Indonesia

Lowest

0.0002 N2O

Turkey

Median

0.4632 N2O

Years covered

1990–2019

Data points

2,954

What the numbers show

Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - Drained organic soils (N2O) is currently reported for 102 countries. The highest value is 119.29 N2O in Indonesia; the lowest is 0.0002 N2O in Turkey.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.4632 N2O, and the mean is 3.96 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 (N2O) - Drained organic soils: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Indonesia	119.29 N2O	2019	up 8.6%	rising
2	United States	26.55 N2O	2019	down 0.8%	flat
3	Russia	23.58 N2O	2019	up 3.7%	flat
4	Belarus	18.52 N2O	2019	down 0.8%	flat
5	Canada	16.41 N2O	2019	up 1.7%	flat
6	Malaysia	16.14 N2O	2019	up 12.5%	rising
7	United Kingdom	15.87 N2O	2019	down 0.1%	flat
8	Germany	13.78 N2O	2019	down 0.3%	flat
9	Mongolia	13.36 N2O	2019	down 0.5%	flat
10	Poland	13.1 N2O	2019	down 0.4%	flat
11	Papua New Guinea	10.33 N2O	2019	down 1.1%	rising
12	Bangladesh	8.38 N2O	2019	down 0.9%	flat
13	Ukraine	8.25 N2O	2019	down 0.5%	falling
14	Myanmar	6.97 N2O	2019	down 0.8%	flat
15	South Sudan	6.85 N2O	2019	down 0.5%	flat
16	Ireland	6.83 N2O	2019	down 0.5%	flat
17	Finland	6.58 N2O	2019	up 9.3%	rising
18	Sweden	5.07 N2O	2019	up 19.9%	rising
19	Lithuania	4.35 N2O	2019	down 1.4%	flat
20	Netherlands	3.77 N2O	2019	down 0.3%	flat
21	Argentina	3.72 N2O	2019	up 0.2%	flat
22	Norway	3.39 N2O	2019	up 3.9%	rising
23	Ethiopia	3.03 N2O	2019	down 2.6%	flat
24	Uganda	2.86 N2O	2019	down 0.2%	flat
25	Madagascar	2.69 N2O	2019	up 0.9%	rising
26	France	2.63 N2O	2019	up 0.0%	falling
27	Tanzania	2.49 N2O	2019	down 2.3%	falling
28	Latvia	2.49 N2O	2019	down 0.2%	rising
29	India	2.47 N2O	2019	down 0.6%	flat
30	Hungary	2.39 N2O	2019	down 0.3%	flat
31	Estonia	2.31 N2O	2019	up 1.5%	rising
32	Japan	1.89 N2O	2019	down 8.4%	falling
33	China	1.88 N2O	2019	up 0.2%	flat
34	Guyana	1.84 N2O	2019	down 0.9%	rising
35	Burundi	1.68 N2O	2019	down 1.1%	rising
36	Vietnam	1.66 N2O	2019	down 5.4%	flat
37	New Zealand	1.51 N2O	2019	down 0.0%	flat
38	Australia	1.51 N2O	2019	down 0.4%	flat
39	Nepal	1.48 N2O	2019	down 2.0%	rising
40	Congo	1.4 N2O	2019	up 17.8%	flat
41	Denmark	1.06 N2O	2019	down 0.2%	flat
42	Cote d'Ivoire	1.04 N2O	2019	up 1.6%	rising
43	Venezuela	0.956 N2O	2019	up 37.0%	rising
44	Rwanda	0.8334 N2O	2019	down 1.5%	flat
45	Sri Lanka	0.7493 N2O	2019	down 3.2%	falling
46	Cameroon	0.7095 N2O	2019	up 6.7%	rising
47	Thailand	0.6218 N2O	2019	up 0.8%	falling
48	Chile	0.5913 N2O	2019	up 3.9%	flat
49	Greece	0.5562 N2O	2019	down 1.3%	flat
50	Iceland	0.5087 N2O	2019	up 0.2%	flat
51	Bulgaria	0.4858 N2O	2019	down 1.3%	flat
52	Guinea	0.4406 N2O	2019	up 3.5%	falling
53	Colombia	0.4355 N2O	2019	up 6.6%	rising
54	Switzerland	0.4318 N2O	2019	up 1.3%	falling
55	Malawi	0.3944 N2O	2019	down 3.7%	flat
56	Brazil	0.3638 N2O	2019	up 4.2%	rising
57	Panama	0.3479 N2O	2019	up 0.1%	flat
58	South Africa	0.3176 N2O	2019	up 0.1%	rising
59	Suriname	0.3106 N2O	2019	down 0.8%	rising
60	Italy	0.2916 N2O	2019	down 0.2%	flat
61	Botswana	0.284 N2O	2019	down 1.5%	rising
62	Gabon	0.2772 N2O	2019	up 2.7%	rising
63	Romania	0.2406 N2O	2019	up 0.5%	flat
64	Spain	0.2255 N2O	2019	down 4.3%	rising
65	Democratic Republic of Congo	0.213 N2O	2019	down 0.7%	flat
66	Angola	0.1679 N2O	2019	down 2.9%	flat
67	Austria	0.1605 N2O	2019	up 0.6%	rising
68	Portugal	0.1498 N2O	2019	down 3.5%	flat
69	Jamaica	0.1437 N2O	2019	up 5.7%	rising
70	Faroe Islands	0.1416 N2O	2019	unchanged	flat
71	Belize	0.1396 N2O	2019	up 10.8%	rising
72	Czechia	0.1336 N2O	2019	up 0.2%	falling
73	Kenya	0.1176 N2O	2019	down 1.6%	flat
74	Brunei	0.1161 N2O	2019	down 6.7%	falling
75	Uruguay	0.1098 N2O	2019	down 0.7%	flat
76	Belgium	0.0967 N2O	2019	down 0.8%	flat
77	Slovenia	0.0799 N2O	2019	up 3.2%	rising
78	Costa Rica	0.0759 N2O	2019	down 16.5%	falling
79	Moldova	0.0729 N2O	2019	down 1.8%	falling
80	Liberia	0.0603 N2O	2019	down 2.0%	rising
81	North Korea	0.0579 N2O	2019	up 13.1%	rising
82	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.056 N2O	2019	down 4.4%	flat
83	Peru	0.0558 N2O	2019	down 0.9%	rising
84	Ecuador	0.0486 N2O	2019	unchanged	volatile
85	Fiji	0.0471 N2O	2019	down 0.2%	flat
86	Albania	0.046 N2O	2019	down 2.1%	flat
87	Ghana	0.0399 N2O	2019	down 7.0%	falling
88	Puerto Rico	0.0388 N2O	2019	up 1.0%	falling
89	Nicaragua	0.0312 N2O	2019	down 25.0%	falling
90	Slovakia	0.0302 N2O	2019	up 0.7%	flat
91	Central African Republic	0.0249 N2O	2019	up 29.7%	rising
92	Isle of Man	0.0128 N2O	2019	down 1.5%	flat
93	Montenegro	0.0099 N2O	2019	unchanged	flat
94	Croatia	0.0042 N2O	2019	unchanged	falling
95	Namibia	0.0032 N2O	2019	unchanged	flat
96	Luxembourg	0.0023 N2O	2019	up 4.5%	flat
97	Eritrea	0.002 N2O	2019	unchanged	flat
98	Serbia	0.001 N2O	2019	unchanged	flat
99	Guinea-Bissau	0.0004 N2O	2019	unchanged	falling
100	Solomon Islands	0.0003 N2O	2019	unchanged	flat
101	Equatorial Guinea	0.0002 N2O	2019	unchanged	flat
101	Turkey	0.0002 N2O	2019	unchanged	flat

About this data

Indicator: Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - 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: 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).