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Methane (CH4) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre by country

Methane (CH4) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (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
0.0299 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Bahrain
Lowest
0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Greenland
Median
0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Years covered
54
1970–2023
Data points
12,804

What the numbers show

Methane (CH4) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre is currently reported for 203 countries. The highest value is 0.0299 Mt CO2e per square kilometre in Bahrain; the lowest is 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre in Greenland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 131 countries rose and 70 fell. The largest increase was in Mongolia (up 134.2%), and the largest decrease in Equatorial Guinea (down 64.0%).

Methane (CH4) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Bahrain 0.0299 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.4% rising
2 Singapore 0.0063 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.2% volatile
3 Hong Kong 0.0046 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.7% rising
4 Kuwait 0.0023 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% rising
5 Qatar 0.002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% rising
6 Gibraltar 0.0015 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.2% rising
7 Macao 0.0013 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% flat
8 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0009 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.1% rising
9 Malta 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.8% rising
10 Bermuda 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 44.1% rising
11 Maldives 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 57.7% volatile
12 Bangladesh 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.3% rising
13 United Arab Emirates 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.0% rising
14 Netherlands 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 20.0% falling
15 South Korea 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.0% rising
16 Israel 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.9% volatile
17 Lebanon 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.2% rising
18 Belgium 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.9% falling
19 Barbados 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.3% falling
20 Vietnam 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.1% rising
21 Iraq 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 42.6% rising
22 Haiti 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.5% rising
23 Brunei 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 26.8% rising
24 Pakistan 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.4% rising
25 India 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.3% rising
26 Mauritius 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.2% rising
27 Ireland 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.1% rising
28 Dominican Republic 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.8% rising
29 Luxembourg 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.5% flat
30 United Kingdom 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 19.6% falling
31 Philippines 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.1% rising
32 Comoros 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.7% rising
33 Burundi 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.1% rising
34 Indonesia 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 47.4% rising
35 Denmark 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.6% falling
36 Rwanda 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.8% flat
37 Uganda 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 42.0% volatile
38 Nigeria 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% rising
39 El Salvador 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.0% rising
40 Azerbaijan 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% rising
41 Sri Lanka 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.0% rising
42 Puerto Rico 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.3% flat
43 Czechia 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% falling
44 North Korea 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.2% rising
45 Guatemala 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.9% rising
46 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.4% rising
47 Germany 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 18.8% falling
48 China 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.9% rising
49 Seychelles 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.2% rising
50 Uruguay 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.1% rising
51 Thailand 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.2% rising
52 Italy 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.5% flat
53 Nepal 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 17.6% rising
54 Cambodia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.3% rising
55 Grenada 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.2% rising
56 Switzerland 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.4% falling
57 Slovenia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 18.0% falling
58 Uzbekistan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.0% rising
59 Poland 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.1% falling
60 Japan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% falling
61 Tonga 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.1% rising
62 New Zealand 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.7% rising
63 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.9% falling
64 Cyprus 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.8% rising
65 Aruba 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.0% volatile
66 France 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.8% falling
67 Costa Rica 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.1% rising
68 Portugal 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
69 Hungary 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.4% falling
70 Ethiopia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.5% rising
71 Cuba 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.8% falling
72 Gambia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% rising
73 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% rising
74 Myanmar 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 14.4% rising
75 Togo 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.1% rising
76 Kenya 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.9% volatile
77 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.2% rising
78 Slovakia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.8% falling
79 Ukraine 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 25.6% falling
80 Cayman Islands 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.4% rising
81 Equatorial Guinea 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 64.0% volatile
82 Oman 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.7% rising
83 Iran 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.5% rising
84 Turkey 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 24.7% rising
85 Austria 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.9% falling
86 Saint Lucia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.4% rising
87 Malawi 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 56.2% volatile
88 United States 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.5% falling
89 Belarus 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% flat
90 Greece 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.6% rising
91 Nicaragua 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.2% rising
92 Ecuador 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.0% rising
93 Tuvalu 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
94 Spain 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.1% rising
95 Colombia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.8% rising
96 Armenia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 1.0% rising
97 Honduras 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.1% rising
98 Guinea-Bissau 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.6% rising
99 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.3% rising
100 Eswatini 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.3% flat
101 Malaysia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising
102 Ghana 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.8% volatile
103 Romania 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.6% falling
104 Palau 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.5% volatile
105 British Virgin Islands 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.3% rising
106 Mexico 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% rising
107 Jamaica 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.0% falling
108 Burkina Faso 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.5% volatile
109 Sierra Leone 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.3% rising
110 South Africa 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.5% rising
111 Brazil 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.1% rising
112 Guinea 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 49.6% volatile
113 Dominica 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.9% rising
114 Albania 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 23.5% falling
115 Tajikistan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 39.4% rising
116 Bulgaria 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.1% falling
117 Croatia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.0% rising
118 Jordan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 47.1% volatile
119 Morocco 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.6% rising
120 Paraguay 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% rising
121 Moldova 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.9% falling
122 Benin 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 36.0% rising
123 East Timor 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 30.9% volatile
124 Tanzania 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 47.9% rising
125 Panama 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
126 Senegal 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.7% rising
127 Micronesia (country) 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.9% rising
128 Georgia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 13.2% flat
129 Venezuela 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 31.1% rising
130 Turkmenistan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.7% rising
131 Egypt 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.5% rising
132 Gabon 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% rising
133 Chad 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 75.6% volatile
134 Djibouti 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.9% rising
135 North Macedonia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 17.6% falling
136 United States Virgin Islands 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.5% flat
137 Tunisia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.5% rising
138 Lesotho 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.8% rising
139 Saudi Arabia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.6% rising
140 Lithuania 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 25.4% falling
141 Laos 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.6% rising
142 Kyrgyzstan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.9% rising
143 Argentina 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% rising
144 Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 20.9% rising
145 Cameroon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.0% rising
146 Sudan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.5% rising
147 Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.7% volatile
148 Nauru 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
149 Madagascar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.7% rising
150 Fiji 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 23.7% rising
151 Somalia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.4% rising
152 Cote d'Ivoire 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.2% rising
153 Cape Verde 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.7% rising
154 Estonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 41.3% falling
155 Eritrea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.0% rising
156 Mongolia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 134.2% volatile
157 Syria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 42.4% volatile
158 Kiribati 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.1% rising
159 Bahamas 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.3% rising
160 American Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.5% rising
161 Latvia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.8% falling
162 Finland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.3% falling
163 Liberia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.7% volatile
164 Zimbabwe 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.9% rising
165 Chile 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.5% rising
166 Faroe Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.1% rising
167 Bhutan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% rising
168 Angola 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 19.6% volatile
169 Russia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.9% rising
170 Afghanistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.0% rising
171 Algeria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.1% rising
172 Norway 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.1% rising
173 Zambia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.4% rising
174 Mozambique 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 39.8% volatile
175 Bolivia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.3% falling
176 Mali 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 48.0% volatile
177 Vanuatu 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 32.6% rising
178 Belize 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.9% rising
179 Guam 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.2% falling
180 Yemen 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 35.0% volatile
181 Kazakhstan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.3% rising
182 French Polynesia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.3% rising
183 Niger 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 44.2% rising
184 Guyana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 124.5% rising
185 Peru 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% rising
186 Sweden 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% falling
187 Australia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% rising
188 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 47.9% volatile
189 Libya 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% falling
190 Canada 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% rising
191 Marshall Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
192 Central African Republic 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.2% rising
193 New Caledonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.0% falling
194 Solomon Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.3% rising
195 Namibia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 48.4% rising
196 Mauritania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.3% rising
197 Papua New Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 89.6% volatile
198 Northern Mariana Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% flat
199 Botswana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 23.1% rising
200 Suriname 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.9% rising
201 Iceland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.1% flat
202 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 58.1% volatile
203 Greenland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged 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 (total) excluding LULUCF (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.

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Indicator
Methane (CH4) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (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
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Methane (CH4) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (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.