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Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre by country

Total greenhouse gas emissions 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
0.1008 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Singapore
Lowest
0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Greenland
Median
0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Years covered
54
1970–2023
Data points
12,804

What the numbers show

Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre is currently reported for 203 countries. The highest value is 0.1008 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 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0025 Mt CO2e per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 63,668.

Over the past decade 142 countries rose and 61 fell. The largest increase was in Turks and Caicos Islands (up 190.0%), and the largest decrease in Ukraine (down 52.4%).

Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per square: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Singapore 0.1008 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.9% rising
2 Bahrain 0.0811 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.6% rising
3 Gibraltar 0.0653 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.5% volatile
4 Macao 0.0535 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 14.5% rising
5 Hong Kong 0.0378 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 22.4% rising
6 Qatar 0.0136 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 24.0% volatile
7 Kuwait 0.0094 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.3% rising
8 Malta 0.007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 20.0% rising
9 South Korea 0.0069 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.2% volatile
10 Maldives 0.0067 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.9% volatile
11 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0066 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 23.3% volatile
12 Bermuda 0.0055 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.0% rising
13 Netherlands 0.0044 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 25.8% falling
14 Israel 0.0037 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.6% rising
15 United Arab Emirates 0.0036 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% volatile
16 Belgium 0.0035 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 17.5% falling
17 Palau 0.0032 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 22.3% falling
18 Mauritius 0.0032 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% volatile
19 Aruba 0.0032 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.3% volatile
20 Luxembourg 0.0031 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 30.5% falling
21 Japan 0.003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 22.8% rising
22 Brunei 0.0023 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.3% rising
23 Barbados 0.0021 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.8% rising
24 Seychelles 0.002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.5% volatile
25 Germany 0.002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 27.1% falling
26 Puerto Rico 0.0019 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 24.6% falling
27 Lebanon 0.0018 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 34.6% volatile
28 Vietnam 0.0017 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 78.3% volatile
29 Bangladesh 0.0017 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.6% rising
30 United Kingdom 0.0017 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 31.6% falling
31 China 0.0016 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.0% volatile
32 Cayman Islands 0.0016 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 61.8% volatile
33 India 0.0014 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 36.8% volatile
34 Czechia 0.0014 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 18.6% falling
35 Italy 0.0013 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 14.5% flat
36 Poland 0.0012 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.3% falling
37 Switzerland 0.0011 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 20.2% falling
38 Dominican Republic 0.001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 44.7% rising
39 Cyprus 0.001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 14.9% rising
40 Denmark 0.001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 28.6% falling
41 Malaysia 0.001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% volatile
42 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0009 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.8% rising
43 Iraq 0.0009 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 52.7% rising
44 Ireland 0.0009 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.0% rising
45 Austria 0.0009 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.3% rising
46 Philippines 0.0009 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 46.9% rising
47 Slovakia 0.0008 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.1% falling
48 Jamaica 0.0008 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.8% rising
49 Slovenia 0.0008 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 17.9% falling
50 Thailand 0.0008 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% rising
51 North Korea 0.0008 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 38.9% falling
52 Saint Lucia 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 60.6% volatile
53 Azerbaijan 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.0% rising
54 Turkey 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.8% rising
55 France 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 20.3% falling
56 British Virgin Islands 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.2% volatile
57 El Salvador 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.2% rising
58 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 39.2% rising
59 Grenada 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.3% rising
60 Pakistan 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.8% volatile
61 Hungary 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.0% falling
62 Indonesia 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 54.8% volatile
63 United States 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% rising
64 Iran 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.5% rising
65 Portugal 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 14.9% rising
66 Spain 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 14.1% rising
67 Sri Lanka 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 27.3% rising
68 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.1% rising
69 Greece 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 26.3% rising
70 Comoros 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 61.0% rising
71 Haiti 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.0% rising
72 Uzbekistan 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.1% rising
73 Croatia 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.8% rising
74 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.3% rising
75 South Africa 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.0% rising
76 Bulgaria 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.9% falling
77 Romania 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.0% falling
78 Belarus 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% falling
79 Oman 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.7% volatile
80 North Macedonia 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% falling
81 Guatemala 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 36.7% volatile
82 Tonga 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.3% rising
83 Jordan 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.9% volatile
84 Saudi Arabia 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.6% volatile
85 Armenia 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.8% rising
86 Egypt 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.5% volatile
87 Nigeria 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% rising
88 Moldova 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.0% falling
89 Mexico 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% rising
90 Estonia 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 46.3% falling
91 Ukraine 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 52.4% falling
92 Lithuania 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.6% falling
93 Rwanda 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.7% rising
94 Cuba 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 23.4% falling
95 Costa Rica 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.6% rising
96 Burundi 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 42.4% rising
97 French Polynesia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.6% rising
98 New Zealand 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.9% rising
99 Ecuador 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% rising
100 Nepal 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.4% rising
101 New Caledonia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.9% volatile
102 Equatorial Guinea 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 43.0% volatile
103 Georgia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 24.9% rising
104 Uganda 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 42.7% volatile
105 Tunisia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.9% rising
106 Cambodia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 53.1% volatile
107 Turkmenistan 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.4% rising
108 Albania 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 13.9% falling
109 Panama 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.2% rising
110 Syria 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.9% rising
111 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.3% volatile
112 Uruguay 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.9% rising
113 Morocco 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.6% rising
114 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 190.0% volatile
115 Cape Verde 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% volatile
116 Honduras 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.9% rising
117 Ghana 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 44.2% volatile
118 Dominica 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.8% rising
119 Malawi 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 40.2% volatile
120 Colombia 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.2% rising
121 Togo 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 41.0% volatile
122 Latvia 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.1% falling
123 Venezuela 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 41.7% rising
124 Samoa 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.2% rising
125 Gambia 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.4% rising
126 Myanmar 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.0% rising
127 Bahamas 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.0% rising
128 Laos 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 166.0% volatile
129 Kenya 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.5% rising
130 Eswatini 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
131 Ethiopia 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.5% rising
132 Finland 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 28.3% flat
133 Senegal 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 47.5% rising
134 Nicaragua 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.4% rising
135 Chile 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 1.5% rising
136 Tajikistan 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 67.5% rising
137 Brazil 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% rising
138 Benin 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 40.9% volatile
139 Russia 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.0% rising
140 Norway 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.6% rising
141 Fiji 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.5% rising
142 Argentina 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.9% rising
143 Kiribati 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 27.1% rising
144 Tuvalu 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.9% rising
145 Burkina Faso 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.3% volatile
146 East Timor 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 21.1% volatile
147 Sweden 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 13.9% falling
148 Kazakhstan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.0% rising
149 Guinea 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 59.9% volatile
150 Cote d'Ivoire 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 50.9% volatile
151 Kyrgyzstan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.4% rising
152 Tanzania 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 52.7% rising
153 Guinea-Bissau 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.9% rising
154 Algeria 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.5% rising
155 Sierra Leone 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.9% rising
156 Paraguay 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.0% rising
157 Djibouti 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.8% rising
158 Lesotho 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.3% rising
159 Canada 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.6% rising
160 Cameroon 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 22.7% rising
161 Micronesia (country) 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.0% rising
162 Gabon 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% rising
163 Zimbabwe 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.6% rising
164 Peru 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.2% rising
165 Chad 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 76.9% volatile
166 Australia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.0% rising
167 Sudan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% rising
168 Bhutan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% volatile
169 Congo 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.4% rising
170 Faroe Islands 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.0% rising
171 Nauru 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
171 United States Virgin Islands 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.8% flat
173 Madagascar 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.6% rising
174 Yemen 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 38.9% volatile
175 Mongolia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 80.9% rising
176 Libya 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.1% falling
177 Angola 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.4% rising
178 Somalia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.2% rising
179 Eritrea 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.3% rising
180 Bolivia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.5% rising
181 Vanuatu 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% rising
182 Zambia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 52.7% rising
183 Afghanistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.3% rising
184 Liberia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 18.9% rising
185 American Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% rising
186 Belize 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.2% rising
187 Mozambique 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 47.2% volatile
188 Iceland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 13.8% rising
189 Guyana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 91.1% rising
190 Mali 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 59.7% volatile
191 Guam 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.6% falling
192 Niger 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 47.1% rising
193 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 47.6% rising
194 Papua New Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.6% rising
195 Suriname 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 3.5% rising
196 Botswana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% rising
197 Marshall Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.9% rising
198 Solomon Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.2% rising
199 Central African Republic 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% rising
200 Namibia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.8% rising
201 Mauritania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.1% rising
202 Northern Mariana Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.9% rising
203 Greenland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.9% 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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Total greenhouse gas emissions 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.

Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e) Γ· Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Total greenhouse gas emissions 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
Last refreshed

Total greenhouse gas emissions 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.