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Methane (CH4) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre by country

Methane (CH4) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
203
Highest
0.0055 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Singapore
Lowest
0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Greenland
Median
0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Years covered
54
1970–2023
Data points
12,804

What the numbers show

Methane (CH4) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre is currently reported for 203 countries. The highest value is 0.0055 Mt CO2e per square kilometre in Singapore; the lowest is 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre in Greenland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 43,052.

Over the past decade 165 countries rose and 36 fell. The largest increase was in Uruguay (up 155.9%), and the largest decrease in Syria (down 87.1%).

Methane (CH4) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Singapore 0.0055 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.6% volatile
2 Hong Kong 0.0045 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.9% rising
3 Gibraltar 0.0014 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.1% rising
4 Bahrain 0.0013 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.8% volatile
5 Macao 0.0011 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.6% falling
6 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.5% rising
7 Kuwait 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.5% volatile
8 Malta 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 46.1% rising
9 Maldives 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 61.9% volatile
10 Lebanon 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 36.8% volatile
11 Israel 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.5% rising
12 Bermuda 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% rising
13 Qatar 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.7% volatile
14 Barbados 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% falling
15 Mauritius 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.0% rising
16 South Korea 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 24.6% rising
17 Seychelles 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.1% rising
18 Bangladesh 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 53.6% volatile
19 Puerto Rico 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.8% rising
20 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.3% rising
21 Grenada 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.7% rising
22 United Arab Emirates 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.9% volatile
23 El Salvador 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.0% rising
24 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.1% rising
25 Dominican Republic 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 52.6% volatile
26 United Kingdom 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 33.8% falling
27 Aruba 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.3% rising
28 Netherlands 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 38.4% falling
29 Comoros 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 38.8% rising
30 Cayman Islands 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.8% volatile
31 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.4% rising
32 Cyprus 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.9% rising
33 Sri Lanka 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.8% rising
34 Guatemala 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 39.6% rising
35 Belgium 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 31.1% falling
36 Czechia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
37 Jordan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 52.2% volatile
38 Italy 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.4% rising
39 Slovakia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% rising
40 Portugal 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.5% rising
41 Saint Lucia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.0% rising
42 Vietnam 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 42.0% volatile
43 Thailand 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 24.7% rising
44 Hungary 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.0% rising
45 Tonga 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% rising
46 Morocco 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 39.1% rising
47 Cuba 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.3% rising
48 India 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.0% rising
49 Rwanda 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 43.5% rising
50 Luxembourg 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 1.5% falling
51 Haiti 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.6% rising
52 Bulgaria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.2% rising
53 Burundi 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 43.7% rising
54 Greece 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.6% rising
55 Costa Rica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.2% rising
56 Philippines 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% rising
57 North Korea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.4% rising
58 Malaysia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 36.3% volatile
59 Nigeria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 51.4% volatile
60 Dominica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.9% rising
61 France 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.1% rising
62 Azerbaijan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.0% rising
63 Honduras 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 53.0% volatile
64 Bahamas 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.5% rising
65 Croatia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.8% rising
66 Pakistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 44.9% rising
67 Uruguay 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 155.9% volatile
68 Nauru 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
68 Tuvalu 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
70 Iraq 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 50.9% rising
71 Moldova 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.7% rising
72 Gambia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 49.1% volatile
73 Kiribati 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.7% rising
74 Indonesia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.9% volatile
75 Georgia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising
76 Sao Tome and Principe 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 43.2% volatile
77 Turkey 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.6% rising
78 Spain 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.9% rising
79 North Macedonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.0% rising
80 Armenia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.7% rising
81 British Virgin Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.2% volatile
82 Jamaica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.9% rising
83 Romania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.6% rising
84 Mexico 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.1% rising
85 Djibouti 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 61.6% volatile
86 Germany 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 35.7% falling
87 Slovenia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 31.3% falling
88 Panama 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.1% volatile
89 Finland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 61.8% falling
90 China 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 25.0% rising
91 Egypt 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.3% rising
92 Tunisia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.9% rising
93 South Africa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.8% rising
94 Brunei 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.1% rising
95 Ireland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 42.4% rising
96 Denmark 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 19.8% falling
97 Fiji 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.5% rising
98 Uganda 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.5% volatile
99 Colombia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 24.9% rising
100 Chile 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.6% volatile
101 Albania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.3% rising
102 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.4% rising
103 Belarus 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% rising
104 Ukraine 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.9% falling
105 Togo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 50.1% rising
106 Austria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 34.7% falling
107 Poland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.9% falling
108 Cape Verde 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.1% rising
109 Ecuador 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 46.6% volatile
110 Guam 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% rising
111 United States 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.5% falling
112 Japan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 25.8% falling
113 Saudi Arabia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.4% volatile
114 Faroe Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.4% rising
115 Kyrgyzstan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.6% rising
116 Marshall Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
117 New Zealand 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.7% rising
118 Uzbekistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.4% rising
119 Ghana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.4% rising
120 Nepal 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.2% rising
121 American Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.8% rising
122 Estonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 67.6% falling
123 Malawi 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 48.9% rising
124 Belize 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.1% rising
125 Lithuania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 46.1% falling
126 Brazil 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.9% rising
127 Guinea-Bissau 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 49.5% volatile
128 Equatorial Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% volatile
129 Benin 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 41.3% rising
130 Oman 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 71.0% volatile
131 French Polynesia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.0% rising
132 Ethiopia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.7% rising
133 Sierra Leone 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.8% rising
134 Tajikistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.9% rising
135 Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.2% rising
136 Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 60.3% rising
137 Cote d'Ivoire 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 46.8% rising
138 Senegal 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 43.7% rising
139 Burkina Faso 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 59.5% rising
140 Venezuela 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.6% rising
141 Latvia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.7% flat
142 Eswatini 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% falling
143 Yemen 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.7% volatile
144 Cameroon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 60.9% volatile
145 Iran 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.0% rising
146 Palau 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.9% rising
147 Nicaragua 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.9% rising
148 Cambodia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 51.9% rising
149 Sweden 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.3% falling
150 Solomon Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 49.0% volatile
151 Micronesia (country) 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% flat
152 East Timor 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.9% rising
153 Argentina 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.1% rising
154 Vanuatu 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.5% rising
155 United States Virgin Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.2% falling
156 Switzerland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.5% falling
157 Northern Mariana Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% flat
158 Lesotho 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.7% rising
159 Peru 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.5% rising
160 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 68.5% volatile
161 Kenya 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 55.1% volatile
162 Myanmar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.1% rising
163 Liberia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 36.0% rising
164 Eritrea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 27.6% rising
165 Russia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.3% rising
166 Sudan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 43.2% rising
167 Bhutan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 62.1% volatile
168 Madagascar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 67.8% volatile
169 Somalia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 44.1% rising
170 Zimbabwe 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.1% rising
171 Algeria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 52.6% volatile
172 Norway 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 25.7% falling
173 Tanzania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 51.7% volatile
174 Canada 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.0% rising
175 Turkmenistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 27.3% rising
176 Afghanistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 36.2% volatile
177 Syria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 87.1% volatile
178 Angola 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.3% volatile
179 New Caledonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.2% rising
180 Mozambique 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 56.4% rising
181 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 75.6% volatile
182 Guyana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.9% rising
183 Iceland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 19.6% rising
184 Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.2% rising
185 Laos 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.1% volatile
186 Australia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.8% falling
187 Bolivia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.3% volatile
188 Papua New Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.4% rising
189 Libya 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.4% rising
190 Kazakhstan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.0% rising
191 Paraguay 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 24.8% rising
192 Chad 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 36.6% rising
193 Suriname 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% rising
194 Zambia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 44.3% rising
195 Mali 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 63.7% rising
196 Gabon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.8% rising
197 Niger 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 49.5% rising
198 Mauritania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 51.8% volatile
199 Botswana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 46.8% volatile
200 Central African Republic 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.7% rising
201 Namibia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 46.8% volatile
202 Mongolia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.4% rising
203 Greenland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% falling

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Methane (CH4) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Methane (CH4) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e) Γ· Land area (sq. km)

Computed from

  • Methane (CH4) emissions from Waste EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG Database, Joint Research Centre (JRC) - European Commission
  • Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.

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Indicator
Methane (CH4) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre
Unit
Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
250 places, 12,804 data points, 1970–2023
Last refreshed

Methane (CH4) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.