Nitrous oxide emissions are emissions from agricultural biomass burning, industrial activities, and livestock management. Each year of data shows the percentage change to that year from 1990.
Source: World Bank staff estimates from original source: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)/Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR): http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/.
Top 10 Countries with Highest % of Nitrous oxide emissions (% change from 1990) :
American Samoa 2457.90%Turks and Caicos Islands 240.57%
Maldives 197.09%
St. Kitts and Nevis 119.85%
Grenada 110.24%
Singapore 97.59%
Equatorial Guinea 97.20%
Gibraltar 94.54%
Bolivia 91.39%
Vietnam 89.08%
Countries with Lowest % of Nitrous oxide emissions (% change from 1990) :
Puerto Rico -35.17%Zambia -37.09%
Slovak Republic -37.16%
Croatia -41.50%
Belarus -42.88%
Togo -43.06%
Central African Republic -44.47%
United Kingdom -44.54%
Kazakhstan -45.93%
Botswana -48.70%
Country | % | Trend |
---|---|---|
American Samoa | 2457.90% | ↓ |
Turks and Caicos Islands | 240.57% | ↓ |
Maldives | 197.09% | ↓ |
St. Kitts and Nevis | 119.85% | ↑ |
Grenada | 110.24% | ↓ |
Singapore | 97.59% | ↓ |
Equatorial Guinea | 97.20% | ↓ |
Gibraltar | 94.54% | ↓ |
Bolivia | 91.39% | ↑ |
Vietnam | 89.08% | ↓ |
Turkmenistan | 84.29% | ↓ |
Lao PDR | 84.06% | ↓ |
Timor-Leste | 83.98% | ↓ |
Lebanon | 70.53% | ↑ |
Cambodia | 70.24% | ↓ |
Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 68.25% | ↓ |
Rwanda | 67.50% | ↓ |
Oman | 66.46% | ↓ |
Cayman Islands | 60.59% | ↓ |
Haiti | 58.61% | ↓ |
Bahamas, The | 55.09% | ↓ |
Liberia | 54.72% | ↓ |
Seychelles | 53.77% | ↓ |
Yemen, Rep. | 53.20% | ↓ |
Chile | 52.42% | ↓ |
Guatemala | 51.68% | ↓ |
Cabo Verde | 49.76% | ↓ |
Bahrain | 49.73% | ↓ |
Burkina Faso | 48.44% | ↓ |
Namibia | 47.96% | ↑ |
Mauritania | 46.06% | ↓ |
Pakistan | 43.85% | ↓ |
Ecuador | 43.64% | ↓ |
Tuvalu | 42.52% | ↑ |
Brazil | 40.84% | ↑ |
Gabon | 40.33% | ↓ |
Iran, Islamic Rep. | 39.86% | ↑ |
Antigua and Barbuda | 39.53% | ↓ |
Kiribati | 36.62% | ↓ |
Jamaica | 36.04% | ↑ |
Mali | 34.56% | ↓ |
China | 32.36% | ↓ |
Bangladesh | 30.82% | ↓ |
Peru | 30.63% | ↓ |
United Arab Emirates | 30.19% | ↓ |
Guinea-Bissau | 30.05% | ↓ |
Djibouti | 29.95% | ↓ |
Senegal | 29.47% | ↓ |
Chad | 27.26% | ↓ |
Korea, Rep. | 25.75% | ↓ |
Guam | 24.93% | ↓ |
Syrian Arab Republic | 24.65% | ↓ |
Philippines | 24.64% | ↓ |
Argentina | 24.56% | ↓ |
Israel | 23.58% | ↑ |
Nepal | 23.57% | ↓ |
India | 23.35% | ↓ |
Sudan | 23.19% | ↓ |
Somalia | 23.02% | ↑ |
Comoros | 22.84% | ↓ |
Afghanistan | 21.98% | ↓ |
New Zealand | 21.91% | ↑ |
Macao SAR, China | 21.13% | ↓ |
Nauru | 20.41% | ↓ |
Greenland | 20.40% | ↓ |
Cyprus | 20.36% | ↓ |
Bhutan | 20.04% | ↓ |
Indonesia | 19.62% | ↑ |
St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 19.34% | ↑ |
British Virgin Islands | 19.20% | ↓ |
Sri Lanka | 18.10% | ↓ |
Venezuela, RB | 16.91% | ↓ |
Vanuatu | 16.89% | ↑ |
Panama | 16.51% | ↓ |
Uruguay | 16.16% | ↓ |
Thailand | 15.83% | ↓ |
Honduras | 15.51% | ↓ |
Tonga | 14.92% | ↑ |
Samoa | 14.51% | ↓ |
Eritrea | 14.44% | ↓ |
Algeria | 13.82% | ↓ |
Kenya | 12.95% | ↓ |
Egypt, Arab Rep. | 11.89% | ↓ |
Ethiopia | 11.51% | ↓ |
Nigeria | 11.49% | ↓ |
Australia | 10.69% | ↑ |
Gambia, The | 9.57% | ↓ |
Luxembourg | 9.44% | ↓ |
Bermuda | 9.25% | ↓ |
Turkey | 8.87% | ↓ |
Dominican Republic | 8.14% | ↑ |
Hong Kong SAR, China | 7.76% | ↓ |
Morocco | 7.52% | ↑ |
Palau | 7.04% | ↓ |
South Africa | 6.64% | ↑ |
Nicaragua | 6.61% | ↓ |
French Polynesia | 6.56% | ↑ |
Colombia | 6.26% | ↓ |
Fiji | 6.18% | ↑ |
Suriname | 5.91% | ↑ |
Faroe Islands | 4.80% | ↓ |
El Salvador | 4.77% | ↑ |
St. Lucia | 4.74% | ↓ |
Belize | 4.57% | ↓ |
Malaysia | 4.52% | ↓ |
Kuwait | 4.20% | ↓ |
Marshall Islands | 3.83% | ↓ |
Spain | 1.65% | ↑ |
Tunisia | 0.70% | ↓ |
Isle of Man | 0.00% | ↑ |
West Bank and Gaza | 0.00% | ↑ |
Channel Islands | 0.00% | ↑ |
Andorra | 0.00% | ↑ |
Liechtenstein | 0.00% | ↑ |
Montenegro | 0.00% | ↑ |
San Marino | 0.00% | ↑ |
Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 0.00% | ↑ |
Monaco | 0.00% | ↑ |
St. Martin (French part) | 0.00% | ↑ |
Kosovo | 0.00% | ↑ |
South Sudan | 0.00% | ↑ |
Côte d'Ivoire | 0.00% | ↑ |
Curaçao | 0.00% | ↑ |
Korea, Dem. People's Rep. | 0.00% | ↑ |
São Tomé and Principe | 0.00% | ↑ |
Niger | -0.78% | ↓ |
Mauritius | -0.91% | ↓ |
Guyana | -0.93% | ↓ |
Saudi Arabia | -1.49% | ↑ |
Poland | -1.86% | ↑ |
Portugal | -1.86% | ↑ |
Canada | -2.26% | ↑ |
New Caledonia | -2.85% | ↑ |
United States | -3.01% | ↑ |
Jordan | -3.94% | ↑ |
Malta | -4.02% | ↑ |
Iceland | -5.35% | ↑ |
Guinea | -5.43% | ↓ |
Uganda | -6.00% | ↓ |
Mexico | -6.18% | ↓ |
Burundi | -6.48% | ↓ |
Libya | -6.62% | ↓ |
Paraguay | -7.76% | ↓ |
Italy | -7.78% | ↑ |
Finland | -7.94% | ↑ |
Azerbaijan | -8.29% | ↓ |
Myanmar | -8.89% | ↑ |
Malawi | -9.49% | ↓ |
Sierra Leone | -10.54% | ↓ |
Tanzania | -11.23% | ↑ |
Ireland | -11.76% | ↓ |
Slovenia | -11.77% | ↓ |
Cameroon | -11.80% | ↓ |
Uzbekistan | -12.02% | ↓ |
Eswatini | -12.20% | ↓ |
Norway | -12.40% | ↑ |
Tajikistan | -12.72% | ↓ |
Belgium | -12.86% | ↓ |
Papua New Guinea | -14.20% | ↑ |
Sweden | -14.28% | ↑ |
Switzerland | -14.52% | ↑ |
Benin | -16.02% | ↓ |
Madagascar | -17.31% | ↓ |
Iraq | -19.15% | ↓ |
Zimbabwe | -19.48% | ↑ |
Lesotho | -20.74% | ↑ |
Barbados | -21.32% | ↓ |
Congo, Rep. | -21.51% | ↑ |
Costa Rica | -22.29% | ↓ |
Austria | -22.30% | ↑ |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | -22.47% | ↓ |
Japan | -22.92% | ↑ |
Denmark | -23.89% | ↑ |
Mozambique | -23.99% | ↑ |
Netherlands | -25.03% | ↑ |
Greece | -26.23% | ↑ |
Lithuania | -26.83% | ↓ |
Armenia | -26.98% | ↓ |
Germany | -27.11% | ↑ |
Solomon Islands | -28.75% | ↑ |
Ghana | -29.34% | ↓ |
Cuba | -30.08% | ↑ |
North Macedonia | -30.64% | ↑ |
Dominica | -30.65% | ↓ |
Georgia | -31.62% | ↓ |
Czech Republic | -31.66% | ↓ |
Congo, Dem. Rep. | -33.42% | ↓ |
Hungary | -33.66% | ↑ |
Albania | -34.03% | ↓ |
Mongolia | -34.37% | ↓ |
France | -34.45% | ↑ |
Brunei Darussalam | -35.11% | ↑ |
Puerto Rico | -35.17% | ↓ |
Zambia | -37.09% | ↑ |
Slovak Republic | -37.16% | ↓ |
Croatia | -41.50% | ↓ |
Belarus | -42.88% | ↓ |
Togo | -43.06% | ↓ |
Central African Republic | -44.47% | ↓ |
United Kingdom | -44.54% | ↑ |
Kazakhstan | -45.93% | ↓ |
Botswana | -48.70% | ↑ |
Romania | -48.98% | ↑ |
Ukraine | -51.05% | ↑ |
Moldova | -51.15% | ↑ |
Russian Federation | -51.77% | ↑ |
Kyrgyz Republic | -53.65% | ↓ |
Bulgaria | -55.01% | ↓ |
Trinidad and Tobago | -55.56% | ↓ |
Estonia | -57.29% | ↓ |
Aruba | -57.60% | ↓ |
Latvia | -59.08% | ↓ |
Virgin Islands (U.S.) | -65.26% | ↓ |
Northern Mariana Islands | -67.22% | ↓ |
Qatar | -81.07% | ↓ |
Angola | -82.72% | ↓ |
Serbia | -100.00% | ↓ |