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

Nitrous oxide (N2O) 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
0.0004 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 Waste (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre is currently reported for 203 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.

Over the past decade 169 countries rose and 22 fell. The largest increase was in Qatar (up 399.6%), and the largest decrease in Costa Rica (down 43.0%).

Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e), per square: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Macao 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% volatile
2 Hong Kong 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.3% rising
3 Singapore 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.1% volatile
4 Gibraltar 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% volatile
5 Bahrain 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
6 Maldives 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% rising
7 Malta 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.8% rising
8 Israel 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 27.6% rising
9 Netherlands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% rising
10 Bangladesh 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.0% rising
11 Bermuda 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 41.7% falling
12 South Korea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.3% rising
13 Barbados 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.5% rising
14 Mauritius 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.7% rising
15 Belgium 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.3% rising
16 Nauru 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
17 Lebanon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.7% rising
18 United Kingdom 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.7% rising
19 Aruba 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
20 Qatar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 399.6% volatile
21 Japan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.4% rising
22 Luxembourg 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% rising
23 Germany 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% rising
24 India 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.9% rising
25 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% rising
26 Marshall Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
27 Comoros 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.2% volatile
28 Saint Lucia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.8% rising
29 Vietnam 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.7% volatile
30 Rwanda 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.9% rising
31 Grenada 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.6% rising
32 Puerto Rico 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.3% rising
33 Denmark 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.3% rising
34 Philippines 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.8% rising
35 Guam 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.0% volatile
36 Kuwait 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.9% volatile
37 Slovakia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 64.7% rising
38 El Salvador 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.8% rising
39 Italy 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% rising
40 Switzerland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.2% rising
41 Seychelles 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 42.9% volatile
42 Jamaica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.1% rising
43 Sri Lanka 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.3% rising
44 American Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
45 Antigua and Barbuda 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.3% rising
46 Trinidad and Tobago 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.3% rising
47 Albania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.8% rising
48 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.5% rising
49 Burundi 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 66.4% rising
50 France 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.0% rising
51 Czechia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.6% rising
52 North Macedonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.2% rising
53 Pakistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.8% rising
54 Cayman Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.3% volatile
54 Tonga 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
54 Tuvalu 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
57 Dominican Republic 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.9% rising
58 China 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.9% rising
59 Cyprus 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.2% rising
60 Haiti 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.6% rising
61 United States Virgin Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.0% volatile
62 Spain 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
63 Nepal 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.8% rising
64 Austria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.9% rising
65 United Arab Emirates 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.9% volatile
66 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% rising
67 Portugal 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.6% rising
68 Poland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.6% rising
69 British Virgin Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
70 Malawi 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 41.1% rising
71 Gambia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.5% volatile
72 Sao Tome and Principe 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.3% rising
73 Nigeria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.9% volatile
74 Kiribati 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.7% rising
75 Uganda 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.0% volatile
76 Turkey 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.8% rising
77 Slovenia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising
78 Guatemala 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.4% rising
79 Azerbaijan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.8% rising
80 Hungary 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.5% rising
81 Micronesia (country) 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
82 Ireland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.4% rising
83 Northern Mariana Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.6% volatile
84 Indonesia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.0% rising
85 Armenia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.2% rising
86 Cape Verde 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.6% rising
87 Egypt 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.6% rising
88 Thailand 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.6% rising
89 Moldova 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 1.5% rising
90 Dominica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.2% rising
91 Ghana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.7% volatile
92 Cuba 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.5% rising
93 Malaysia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.4% rising
94 French Polynesia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.4% rising
95 Romania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.4% flat
96 Senegal 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 53.2% rising
97 Croatia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.8% rising
98 Greece 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.6% rising
99 Costa Rica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 43.0% rising
100 Togo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.2% rising
101 Colombia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.2% rising
102 Morocco 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.7% rising
103 Jordan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.1% volatile
104 Ethiopia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.5% rising
105 Uzbekistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.8% rising
106 Benin 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.0% volatile
107 Lithuania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.6% rising
108 Tunisia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.0% rising
109 Syria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.4% rising
110 Burkina Faso 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 63.0% volatile
111 Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.9% rising
112 Iraq 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 41.8% volatile
113 Mexico 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.8% rising
114 Ukraine 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.1% flat
115 Myanmar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% volatile
116 Sierra Leone 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.6% rising
117 United States 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.3% rising
118 Cambodia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.8% rising
119 Tajikistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 57.9% rising
120 Bulgaria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.4% falling
121 East Timor 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.6% rising
122 Belarus 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.4% rising
123 Cote d'Ivoire 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 46.8% rising
124 Honduras 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.4% rising
125 Panama 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.4% rising
126 Latvia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.4% rising
127 Eswatini 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.2% rising
128 Kenya 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.4% rising
129 Georgia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.6% flat
130 Ecuador 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.0% rising
131 Palau 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
132 Estonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.5% rising
133 Tanzania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.3% rising
134 Iran 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.4% rising
135 Bahamas 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.5% rising
136 Fiji 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.9% rising
137 Cameroon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.9% volatile
138 South Africa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.1% rising
139 Nicaragua 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.3% rising
140 Belize 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.4% rising
141 Faroe Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% volatile
142 Afghanistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.0% volatile
143 Lesotho 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 13.6% rising
144 Finland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.8% rising
145 Guinea-Bissau 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.9% rising
146 Yemen 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.5% rising
147 Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.6% rising
148 Djibouti 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.6% volatile
149 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.0% volatile
150 Kyrgyzstan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.1% rising
151 New Zealand 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.2% rising
152 Chile 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.7% rising
153 Sweden 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.4% rising
154 Eritrea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.2% rising
155 Zimbabwe 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.2% rising
156 Brazil 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.8% rising
157 Liberia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 46.6% rising
158 Laos 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.6% rising
159 Venezuela 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.9% rising
160 Equatorial Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.1% volatile
161 Sudan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.2% rising
162 Peru 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.9% rising
163 Norway 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.5% rising
164 Argentina 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.6% rising
165 Uruguay 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.5% rising
166 Mozambique 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.2% volatile
167 Madagascar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.1% rising
168 Vanuatu 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.9% rising
169 Niger 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 49.6% volatile
170 Algeria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.8% rising
171 Bhutan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
172 New Caledonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.8% rising
173 Oman 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.5% volatile
174 Saudi Arabia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.3% volatile
175 Solomon Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.3% rising
176 Paraguay 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.8% rising
177 Mali 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.1% volatile
178 Angola 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.2% volatile
179 Turkmenistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.2% rising
180 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.7% rising
181 Papua New Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.7% volatile
182 Zambia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.9% rising
183 Somalia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.8% volatile
184 Russia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.2% rising
185 Chad 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.3% volatile
186 Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 55.0% volatile
187 Canada 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.5% rising
188 Bolivia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.4% rising
189 Kazakhstan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.4% rising
190 Australia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.8% rising
191 Gabon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.4% volatile
192 Iceland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.1% rising
193 Central African Republic 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.8% rising
194 Brunei 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.3% volatile
195 Mauritania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.5% volatile
196 Guyana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% rising
197 Libya 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.0% rising
198 Botswana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.5% rising
199 Mongolia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 64.3% rising
200 Suriname 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.4% rising
201 Namibia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.5% rising
202 North Korea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
203 Greenland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.1% 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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Nitrous oxide (N2O) 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.

Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from Waste (Mt CO2e) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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  • Nitrous oxide (N2O) 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
Nitrous oxide (N2O) 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
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Nitrous oxide (N2O) 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.