Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e) by country
A measure of annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the waste sector. This includes emissions from solid waste (IPCC 2006 codes 4.A Solid Waste Disposal, 4.B Biological Treatment of Solid Waste, 4.C Incineration and Open Burning of Waste) and wastewater treatment...
Countries reporting
95
Highest
3.7 Mt CO2e
China
Lowest
0 Mt CO2e
Netherlands
Median
0.0038 Mt CO2e
Years covered
55
1970–2024
Data points
8,081
What the numbers show
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e) is currently reported for 95 countries. The highest value is 3.7 Mt CO2e in China; the lowest is 0 Mt CO2e in Netherlands.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.0038 Mt CO2e, and the mean is 0.1406 Mt CO2e.
Over the past decade 58 countries rose and 21 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 2,471.6%), and the largest decrease in Latvia (down 100.0%).
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from Waste: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 3.7 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 25.7% | volatile |
| 2 | Japan | 3.29 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 13.8% | rising |
| 3 | France | 1.75 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 3.2% | rising |
| 4 | South Korea | 1.62 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 14.0% | volatile |
| 5 | Mexico | 0.5133 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 16.7% | volatile |
| 6 | Kazakhstan | 0.3446 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 2,471.6% | volatile |
| 7 | Brazil | 0.305 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 10.7% | rising |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 0.2431 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 20.5% | falling |
| 9 | Poland | 0.1849 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 22.9% | falling |
| 10 | Indonesia | 0.1777 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 24.6% | volatile |
| 11 | Philippines | 0.1569 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 21.9% | rising |
| 12 | Sweden | 0.1387 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 15.6% | volatile |
| 13 | Canada | 0.1026 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 15.6% | rising |
| 14 | Malaysia | 0.0795 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 23.3% | volatile |
| 15 | Norway | 0.0601 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 36.9% | volatile |
| 16 | New Zealand | 0.0563 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 18.6% | falling |
| 17 | Czechia | 0.0537 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 6.9% | volatile |
| 18 | Vietnam | 0.0534 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 33.5% | volatile |
| 19 | Myanmar | 0.0479 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 18.9% | rising |
| 20 | Singapore | 0.0422 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 13.4% | rising |
| 21 | Honduras | 0.0342 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 29.5% | rising |
| 22 | Germany | 0.0309 Mt CO2e | 2023 | down 81.9% | falling |
| 23 | Portugal | 0.0221 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 28.5% | volatile |
| 24 | Belgium | 0.0203 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 7.4% | volatile |
| 25 | North Macedonia | 0.0201 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 26 | Italy | 0.0198 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 4.2% | falling |
| 27 | Colombia | 0.0191 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 13.0% | rising |
| 27 | Thailand | 0.0191 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 17.9% | rising |
| 29 | Venezuela | 0.0181 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 13.1% | rising |
| 30 | Australia | 0.0166 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 31 | Laos | 0.0163 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 37.0% | volatile |
| 32 | Ireland | 0.0145 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 0.7% | falling |
| 33 | Cambodia | 0.0133 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 25.5% | volatile |
| 34 | Argentina | 0.0121 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 11.0% | rising |
| 35 | Mali | 0.0115 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 59.7% | volatile |
| 36 | Hong Kong | 0.0113 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 36 | North Korea | 0.0113 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 38 | Slovakia | 0.01 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 32.9% | volatile |
| 39 | Peru | 0.0098 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 15.3% | rising |
| 40 | Chile | 0.0088 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 23.9% | rising |
| 41 | Belarus | 0.0073 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 61.2% | volatile |
| 42 | Ukraine | 0.0072 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 37.9% | falling |
| 43 | Hungary | 0.0069 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 89.7% | falling |
| 44 | Romania | 0.0064 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 56.1% | volatile |
| 45 | Ecuador | 0.0048 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 17.1% | rising |
| 46 | Slovenia | 0.0045 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 47 | Maldives | 0.0039 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 30.0% | volatile |
| 48 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.0038 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 2.7% | volatile |
| 48 | Turkey | 0.0038 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 850.0% | volatile |
| 50 | United States | 0.0034 Mt CO2e | 2023 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 51 | Albania | 0.0029 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 52 | Bolivia | 0.0027 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 22.7% | rising |
| 53 | Azerbaijan | 0.0025 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 54 | Algeria | 0.0024 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 26.3% | volatile |
| 54 | Moldova | 0.0024 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 56 | Lithuania | 0.0022 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 4.8% | volatile |
| 57 | Faroe Islands | 0.002 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 57 | Greece | 0.002 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 37.5% | volatile |
| 59 | Brunei | 0.0019 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 11.8% | rising |
| 60 | Ethiopia | 0.0017 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 54.5% | volatile |
| 61 | Kenya | 0.0016 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 60.0% | volatile |
| 62 | Uruguay | 0.0014 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 63 | Switzerland | 0.0013 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 27.8% | volatile |
| 64 | Greenland | 0.0011 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 10.0% | rising |
| 64 | Iceland | 0.0011 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 22.2% | falling |
| 66 | Bahamas | 0.001 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 66 | Denmark | 0.001 Mt CO2e | 2023 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 66 | Papua New Guinea | 0.001 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 69 | Macao | 0.0009 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 12.5% | rising |
| 69 | Mongolia | 0.0009 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 12.5% | rising |
| 71 | Austria | 0.0008 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 72 | Jamaica | 0.0007 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 73 | Gibraltar | 0.0006 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 73 | Kuwait | 0.0006 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 75 | Bulgaria | 0.0005 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 91.2% | volatile |
| 75 | Cuba | 0.0005 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 75 | Dominican Republic | 0.0005 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 25.0% | rising |
| 75 | Egypt | 0.0005 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 25.0% | volatile |
| 79 | Benin | 0.0004 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 33.3% | flat |
| 80 | Gabon | 0.0003 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 81 | Estonia | 0.0002 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 81 | Jordan | 0.0002 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 81 | Suriname | 0.0002 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 81 | Togo | 0.0002 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 81 | East Timor | 0.0002 Mt CO2e | 2024 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 86 | Dominica | 0.0001 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 86 | Guyana | 0.0001 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 86 | Malta | 0.0001 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 75.0% | rising |
| 86 | Mauritius | 0.0001 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 86 | Paraguay | 0.0001 Mt CO2e | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 91 | Spain | 0 Mt CO2e | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 91 | Croatia | 0 Mt CO2e | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 91 | Lebanon | 0 Mt CO2e | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 91 | Latvia | 0 Mt CO2e | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 91 | Netherlands | 0 Mt CO2e | 2023 | down 100.0% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 13.37 Mt CO2e
- East Asia & Pacific 9.32 Mt CO2e
- OECD members 8.17 Mt CO2e
- High income 7.7 Mt CO2e
- Post-demographic dividend 7.49 Mt CO2e
- IDA & IBRD total 5.8 Mt CO2e
- IBRD only 5.67 Mt CO2e
- Low & middle income 5.61 Mt CO2e
- Middle income 5.59 Mt CO2e
- Upper middle income 5.45 Mt CO2e
- Late-demographic dividend 4.79 Mt CO2e
- East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 4.28 Mt CO2e
- East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 4.26 Mt CO2e
- Europe & Central Asia 2.94 Mt CO2e
- European Union 2.24 Mt CO2e
- Euro area 1.85 Mt CO2e
- Early-demographic dividend 1.02 Mt CO2e
- Latin America & Caribbean 0.9325 Mt CO2e
- Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 0.931 Mt CO2e
- Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 0.9212 Mt CO2e
- Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 0.5864 Mt CO2e
- Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 0.3946 Mt CO2e
- Central Europe and the Baltics 0.2693 Mt CO2e
- Lower middle income 0.1364 Mt CO2e
- IDA total 0.1326 Mt CO2e
- IDA only 0.1295 Mt CO2e
- North America 0.1026 Mt CO2e
- Least developed countries 0.0915 Mt CO2e
- Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 0.0508 Mt CO2e
- Low income 0.0245 Mt CO2e
- Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 0.0158 Mt CO2e
- Sub-Saharan Africa 0.0158 Mt CO2e
- Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 0.0158 Mt CO2e
- Pre-demographic dividend 0.0139 Mt CO2e
- Africa Western and Central 0.0124 Mt CO2e
- Small states 0.0089 Mt CO2e
- Other small states 0.0075 Mt CO2e
- South Asia 0.0039 Mt CO2e
- South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 0.0039 Mt CO2e
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 0.0038 Mt CO2e
About this data
A measure of annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the waste sector. This includes emissions from solid waste (IPCC 2006 codes 4.A Solid Waste Disposal, 4.B Biological Treatment of Solid Waste, 4.C Incineration and Open Burning of Waste) and wastewater treatment (IPCC 2006 code 4.D Wastewater Treatment and Discharge). The measure is standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values using the Global Warming Potential (GWP) factors of IPCC's 5th Assessment Report (AR5).