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Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Industrial Processes (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre by country

Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Industrial Processes (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
202
Highest
0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Macao
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

Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Industrial Processes (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre is currently reported for 202 countries. The highest value is 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre in Macao; 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 Mt CO2e per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 49,752.

Over the past decade 110 countries rose and 85 fell. The largest increase was in Turks and Caicos Islands (up 211.1%), and the largest decrease in Luxembourg (down 60.0%).

Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Industrial Processes (Mt CO2e): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Macao 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 22.5% volatile
2 Gibraltar 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.0% rising
3 Singapore 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.7% volatile
4 Bahrain 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.4% rising
5 Belgium 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 14.9% flat
6 Hong Kong 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 25.2% rising
7 Bermuda 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 76.0% rising
8 Maldives 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% volatile
9 Netherlands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.4% volatile
10 Israel 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.4% rising
11 Slovakia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.9% rising
12 Qatar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.4% volatile
13 Palau 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.8% falling
14 Kuwait 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.0% rising
15 Lebanon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 14.0% rising
16 South Korea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% volatile
17 Aruba 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.3% volatile
18 Malta 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 34.2% rising
19 Mauritius 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.3% rising
20 Lithuania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 35.6% rising
21 Seychelles 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.6% volatile
22 Croatia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.9% rising
23 Cayman Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 65.4% volatile
24 Poland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.1% falling
25 Barbados 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.1% rising
26 United Arab Emirates 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 1.6% volatile
27 Czechia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.4% falling
28 Germany 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.0% volatile
29 Georgia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% rising
30 United Kingdom 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 14.0% volatile
31 Trinidad and Tobago 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 23.0% rising
32 Antigua and Barbuda 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.0% rising
33 Cyprus 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.8% rising
34 Romania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 22.2% falling
35 Japan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 26.4% falling
36 Turkey 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.6% rising
37 Puerto Rico 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.7% volatile
38 British Virgin Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.5% volatile
39 Bangladesh 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 48.6% rising
40 Syria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.2% rising
41 Luxembourg 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 60.0% falling
42 Vietnam 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 77.5% volatile
43 Haiti 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.5% rising
44 Egypt 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% rising
45 Saint Lucia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 65.2% volatile
46 Comoros 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 53.3% volatile
47 Grenada 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.2% volatile
48 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.5% rising
49 Iraq 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.8% rising
50 Jordan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.9% rising
51 India 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.1% rising
52 Austria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 19.4% volatile
53 Cuba 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.5% falling
54 Dominican Republic 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.6% rising
55 Greece 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 13.1% falling
56 Nauru 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
57 Jamaica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% rising
58 Italy 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 18.0% volatile
59 Malaysia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% volatile
60 France 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.2% volatile
61 Rwanda 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.8% falling
62 Portugal 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 18.3% falling
63 Ukraine 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 51.1% falling
64 Thailand 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.6% rising
65 Spain 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.9% falling
66 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 41.7% volatile
67 Switzerland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 22.1% falling
68 Slovenia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 22.2% falling
69 Finland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 19.2% falling
70 China 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% rising
71 Iran 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.9% rising
72 Belarus 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.3% flat
73 Zambia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.4% rising
74 Hungary 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.8% volatile
75 Denmark 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 24.6% volatile
76 United States 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.9% falling
77 Brunei 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.3% rising
78 Uganda 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 42.8% rising
79 Sri Lanka 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.4% rising
80 Philippines 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 27.7% rising
81 North Korea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 134.4% falling
82 El Salvador 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.1% rising
83 Sao Tome and Principe 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% volatile
83 Tuvalu 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
85 Burundi 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.3% rising
86 Guatemala 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.3% rising
87 Tunisia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.9% falling
88 Eswatini 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.2% rising
89 Norway 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.2% volatile
90 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 211.1% volatile
91 Indonesia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 58.9% rising
92 Malawi 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.2% rising
93 Nepal 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.3% rising
94 Togo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.6% rising
95 Tonga 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.8% rising
96 Yemen 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.6% rising
97 Mozambique 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 24.4% volatile
98 Laos 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 165.1% volatile
99 French Polynesia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.5% rising
100 South Africa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.7% rising
101 Cape Verde 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.3% volatile
102 Pakistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% rising
103 Gambia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% volatile
104 Cambodia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 29.7% volatile
105 Azerbaijan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.9% falling
106 Turkmenistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.0% rising
107 Angola 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% volatile
108 Ghana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.7% rising
109 Honduras 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.2% volatile
110 Nigeria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.3% rising
111 Bulgaria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.8% volatile
112 Tanzania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.0% volatile
113 Ireland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.9% volatile
114 Saudi Arabia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.0% volatile
115 Bahamas 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% rising
116 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.3% rising
117 Botswana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 155.9% volatile
118 Costa Rica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.5% falling
119 Sweden 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.2% falling
120 Lesotho 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.9% rising
121 Guam 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
121 Marshall Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
123 Senegal 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.9% rising
124 Benin 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.9% rising
125 Central African Republic 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 48.0% volatile
126 Kiribati 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.3% rising
127 Ecuador 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.5% rising
128 Sierra Leone 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.1% rising
129 Guinea-Bissau 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 29.2% rising
130 Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.6% rising
131 Myanmar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.9% rising
132 American Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
133 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.9% volatile
134 Dominica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.2% rising
135 Ethiopia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% rising
136 Oman 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.6% volatile
137 Albania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.0% flat
138 Armenia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.3% rising
139 Russia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.9% rising
140 Chile 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.8% volatile
141 Australia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 58.4% rising
142 New Caledonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.6% rising
143 Moldova 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.5% falling
144 Panama 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% rising
145 Mexico 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 20.3% rising
146 Cote d'Ivoire 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% rising
147 Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.4% rising
148 Liberia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.2% volatile
149 Fiji 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.5% rising
150 Burkina Faso 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.8% rising
151 Estonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 27.4% falling
152 North Macedonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 21.7% falling
153 Kenya 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.8% rising
154 Bhutan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.8% volatile
155 Sudan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 18.4% falling
156 Nicaragua 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 49.3% rising
157 Morocco 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.5% volatile
158 New Zealand 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.8% rising
159 Micronesia (country) 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
160 Bolivia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 198.0% volatile
161 Brazil 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.4% falling
162 Zimbabwe 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.4% rising
163 Uzbekistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.6% falling
164 Colombia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.0% rising
165 Uruguay 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.5% rising
166 Algeria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.3% volatile
167 Belize 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.0% volatile
168 Cameroon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.7% volatile
169 Paraguay 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.7% volatile
170 Northern Mariana Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
171 Djibouti 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.2% rising
172 Madagascar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.8% volatile
173 Venezuela 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 54.2% rising
174 Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.1% volatile
175 Latvia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 21.8% falling
176 Canada 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.7% volatile
177 Equatorial Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% volatile
178 Gabon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.4% volatile
179 Faroe Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
180 East Timor 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.6% volatile
181 Argentina 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.8% rising
182 Guyana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 121.7% volatile
183 Somalia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.3% volatile
184 Peru 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.6% falling
185 Vanuatu 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.5% rising
186 Kazakhstan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% falling
187 Eritrea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 27.9% falling
188 Tajikistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 166.7% volatile
189 Chad 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 17.3% volatile
190 Mali 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.1% volatile
191 Solomon Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.5% rising
192 Namibia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 20.2% volatile
193 Iceland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% falling
194 Papua New Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.7% volatile
195 Libya 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.7% rising
196 Kyrgyzstan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 43.6% falling
197 Suriname 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% volatile
198 Afghanistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.0% volatile
199 Mongolia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 52.8% rising
200 Mauritania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 54.0% volatile
201 Niger 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 55.0% volatile
202 Greenland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.3% volatile

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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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Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Industrial Processes (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.

Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Industrial Processes (Mt CO2e) Γ· Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Industrial Processes (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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Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Industrial Processes (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.