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Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre by country

Nitrous oxide (N2O) 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
0.0012 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 (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre is currently reported for 203 countries. The highest value is 0.0012 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 65,551.

Over the past decade 129 countries rose and 73 fell. The largest increase was in Brunei (up 410.1%), and the largest decrease in Vanuatu (down 36.5%).

Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Macao 0.0012 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.3% volatile
2 Gibraltar 0.0008 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.1% volatile
3 Singapore 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.4% volatile
4 Hong Kong 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.0% rising
5 Bahrain 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.6% rising
6 Belgium 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 14.4% flat
7 Netherlands 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.4% falling
8 Bangladesh 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.3% rising
9 Bermuda 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 41.8% rising
10 South Korea 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% rising
11 Maldives 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% volatile
12 Malta 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.7% rising
13 Ireland 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.4% rising
14 Israel 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.5% rising
15 Denmark 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.4% falling
16 United Kingdom 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% falling
17 India 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.9% rising
18 Germany 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 19.2% falling
19 Luxembourg 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.2% falling
20 Barbados 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.0% rising
21 Mauritius 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.4% rising
22 Poland 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.5% falling
23 Brunei 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 410.1% volatile
24 Vietnam 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.4% volatile
25 Czechia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.1% falling
26 Pakistan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.7% rising
27 Lithuania 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.4% rising
28 Belarus 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.7% rising
29 Qatar 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 50.1% volatile
30 Puerto Rico 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 28.1% rising
31 Slovakia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.0% rising
32 Lebanon 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 17.1% rising
33 Dominican Republic 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.8% rising
34 Palau 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% falling
35 Kuwait 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% rising
36 France 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 13.7% falling
37 Burundi 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.2% rising
38 Hungary 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.1% falling
39 Aruba 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.6% volatile
40 Uganda 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.9% rising
41 Rwanda 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.5% rising
42 Philippines 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 44.5% rising
43 Switzerland 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% falling
44 Haiti 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.4% rising
45 Tuvalu 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.0% rising
46 Seychelles 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.2% volatile
47 Trinidad and Tobago 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% rising
48 Japan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.6% falling
49 El Salvador 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% flat
50 China 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% rising
51 Malawi 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 97.5% volatile
52 Italy 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.7% falling
53 Romania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.7% falling
54 Guatemala 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% rising
55 Turkey 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.1% rising
56 Croatia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.7% flat
57 Uruguay 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.7% rising
58 Estonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
59 Austria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.8% falling
60 Faroe Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.9% rising
61 New Zealand 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.9% rising
62 Spain 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% rising
63 Latvia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.3% rising
64 Thailand 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.4% rising
65 Ethiopia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.0% rising
66 Bulgaria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% falling
67 Tonga 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.1% rising
68 Nepal 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.7% rising
69 Comoros 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.5% rising
70 Cayman Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 49.1% rising
71 Costa Rica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.9% rising
72 Sri Lanka 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.2% rising
73 Indonesia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.0% rising
74 Slovenia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.4% falling
75 Portugal 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.7% falling
76 Uzbekistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 27.6% rising
77 Nigeria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.4% rising
78 Cyprus 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.7% rising
79 Jamaica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% rising
80 United Arab Emirates 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.1% volatile
81 British Virgin Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.4% rising
82 Moldova 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.4% rising
83 Azerbaijan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% rising
84 Antigua and Barbuda 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% rising
85 Saint Lucia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.5% rising
86 Ukraine 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% falling
87 Albania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.5% flat
88 Grenada 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.7% rising
89 Greece 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 13.5% falling
90 Kenya 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.1% rising
91 Eswatini 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.5% rising
92 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 46.8% rising
93 Cuba 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 20.3% falling
93 Nauru 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 66.7% rising
95 Togo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 41.7% volatile
96 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% rising
97 United States 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.6% falling
98 Tanzania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 39.1% rising
99 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.1% rising
100 Burkina Faso 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.5% rising
101 Malaysia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 14.2% rising
102 Micronesia (country) 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.5% rising
103 Nicaragua 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.0% rising
104 Gambia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.9% rising
105 Syria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.4% rising
106 Georgia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.4% rising
107 Myanmar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.2% rising
108 Finland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.8% rising
109 Brazil 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.0% rising
110 Egypt 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.2% rising
111 Senegal 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.1% rising
112 Sao Tome and Principe 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 24.2% volatile
113 Mexico 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.1% rising
114 Guinea-Bissau 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.9% rising
115 Benin 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 38.6% rising
116 Iran 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% rising
117 Cambodia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% rising
118 Chad 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 75.1% volatile
119 Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 43.7% volatile
120 Honduras 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% rising
121 Colombia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.5% rising
122 Armenia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% rising
123 Cape Verde 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.9% rising
124 Sudan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% rising
125 South Africa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.0% rising
126 Iraq 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% rising
127 Paraguay 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.8% rising
128 Ecuador 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.5% rising
129 Tunisia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.8% rising
130 Dominica 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.5% rising
131 Lesotho 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.8% flat
132 North Macedonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.7% falling
133 East Timor 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.3% rising
134 Tajikistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.9% rising
135 Ghana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.6% rising
136 United States Virgin Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.0% rising
137 Laos 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 51.7% rising
138 Sweden 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% falling
139 North Korea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 23.7% falling
140 Panama 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
141 Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 17.3% rising
142 Argentina 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.3% rising
143 Morocco 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 1.4% rising
144 Jordan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.7% rising
145 Turkmenistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.7% rising
146 Sierra Leone 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.0% rising
147 Fiji 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 27.5% rising
148 Zimbabwe 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.3% rising
149 Zambia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.2% rising
150 American Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% rising
151 Eritrea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% rising
152 Guam 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.0% rising
153 Norway 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.7% falling
154 New Caledonia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.1% rising
155 Cameroon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.6% rising
156 Venezuela 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 24.2% rising
157 French Polynesia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.7% rising
158 Djibouti 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.3% rising
159 Cote d'Ivoire 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.2% rising
160 Kyrgyzstan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% rising
161 Kiribati 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.6% rising
162 Mali 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 48.7% volatile
163 Madagascar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.9% rising
164 Chile 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.7% rising
165 Mongolia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.6% rising
166 Yemen 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.3% rising
167 Somalia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.8% rising
168 Niger 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 48.5% volatile
169 Marshall Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 333.3% volatile
170 Australia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.3% rising
171 Bolivia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.5% rising
172 Central African Republic 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 13.2% rising
173 Vanuatu 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 36.5% rising
174 Peru 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.2% rising
175 Afghanistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.8% rising
176 Mozambique 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.4% rising
177 Angola 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% rising
178 Russia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.5% rising
179 Bhutan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.4% rising
180 Belize 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.2% rising
181 Canada 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.7% rising
182 Liberia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.5% rising
183 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 158.8% volatile
184 Saudi Arabia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.1% rising
185 Bahamas 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.0% rising
186 Oman 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.8% volatile
187 Botswana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.4% rising
188 Kazakhstan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.1% rising
189 Papua New Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.5% rising
190 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.0% rising
191 Namibia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.8% rising
192 Algeria 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.7% rising
193 Iceland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.0% falling
194 Northern Mariana Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% rising
195 Mauritania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.6% rising
196 Guyana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.2% rising
197 Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 1.2% rising
198 Gabon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.7% volatile
199 Equatorial Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.2% rising
200 Solomon Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
201 Suriname 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.7% rising
202 Libya 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.2% rising
203 Greenland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising

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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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Indicator
Nitrous oxide (N2O) 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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Nitrous oxide (N2O) 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.