environmental2024

Carbon dioxide emissions from waste

Name: Carbon dioxide emissions from waste
Creator: World Development Indicators
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, waste-emissions, en.ghg.co2.wa.mt.ce.ar5

Compare carbon dioxide emissions from waste across 96 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2024 official-source dataset.

Source: World Development Indicators•96 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

0.1Mt CO2e

Median: 0.0Mt CO2e

Countries Covered

96

with available data

Highest

People's Republic of China

3.7Mt CO2e

Lowest

Spain

0.0Mt CO2e

Top 5 Countries

1People's Republic of China3.7Mt CO2e

2Japan3.3Mt CO2e

3France1.8Mt CO2e

4South Korea1.6Mt CO2e

5Mexico0.5Mt CO2e

By Region

Key Findings

•Coverage: 96 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2024.
•Published range: 0 to 3.6976 Mt CO2e.
•Discovery motivation: Google Trends surfaced IFA Berlin while GitHub Trending surfaced hardware and developer tooling, motivating technology-waste impacts.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0Mt CO2e)High (3.7Mt CO2e)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 0.1Mt CO2e)

About This Statistic

A measure of annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the waste sector. This includes emissions from solid waste (IPCC 2006 codes 4.A Solid Waste Disposal, 4.B Biological Treatment of Solid Waste, 4.C Incineration and Open Burning of Waste) and wastewater treatment (IPCC 2006 code 4.D Wastewater Treatment and Discharge). The measure is standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values using the Global Warming Potential (GWP) factors of IPCC's 5th Assessment Report (AR5).

MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.

Methodology

A measure of annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the waste sector. This includes emissions from solid waste (IPCC 2006 codes 4.A Solid Waste Disposal, 4.B Biological Treatment of Solid Waste, 4.C Incineration and Open Burning of Waste) and wastewater treatment (IPCC 2006 code 4.D Wastewater Treatment and Discharge). The measure is standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values using the Global Warming Potential (GWP) factors of IPCC's 5th Assessment Report (AR5).

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	People's Republic of China	3.7Mt CO2e
2	Japan	3.3Mt CO2e
3	France	1.8Mt CO2e
4	South Korea	1.6Mt CO2e
5	Mexico	0.5Mt CO2e
6	Kazakhstan	0.3Mt CO2e
7	Brazil	0.3Mt CO2e
8	United Kingdom	0.2Mt CO2e
9	Poland	0.2Mt CO2e
10	Indonesia	0.2Mt CO2e
11	Philippines	0.2Mt CO2e
12	Sweden	0.1Mt CO2e
13	Canada	0.1Mt CO2e
14	Malaysia	0.1Mt CO2e
15	Norway	0.1Mt CO2e
16	New Zealand	0.1Mt CO2e
17	Czech Republic	0.1Mt CO2e
18	Vietnam	0.1Mt CO2e
19	Myanmar	0.0Mt CO2e
20	Singapore	0.0Mt CO2e
21	Honduras	0.0Mt CO2e
22	Portugal	0.0Mt CO2e
23	Belgium	0.0Mt CO2e
24	The Republic of North Macedonia	0.0Mt CO2e
25	Italy	0.0Mt CO2e
26	Colombia	0.0Mt CO2e
27	Thailand	0.0Mt CO2e
28	Venezuela	0.0Mt CO2e
29	Australia	0.0Mt CO2e
30	Lao People's Democratic Republic	0.0Mt CO2e
31	Ireland	0.0Mt CO2e
32	Cambodia	0.0Mt CO2e
33	Argentina	0.0Mt CO2e
34	Mali	0.0Mt CO2e
35	Hong Kong	0.0Mt CO2e
36	North Korea	0.0Mt CO2e
37	Slovakia	0.0Mt CO2e
38	Peru	0.0Mt CO2e
39	Chile	0.0Mt CO2e
40	Belarus	0.0Mt CO2e
41	Ukraine	0.0Mt CO2e
42	Hungary	0.0Mt CO2e
43	Romania	0.0Mt CO2e
44	Ecuador	0.0Mt CO2e
45	Slovenia	0.0Mt CO2e
46	Maldives	0.0Mt CO2e
47	Türkiye	0.0Mt CO2e
48	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.0Mt CO2e
49	Albania	0.0Mt CO2e
50	Bolivia	0.0Mt CO2e
51	Azerbaijan	0.0Mt CO2e
52	Moldova, Republic of	0.0Mt CO2e
53	Algeria	0.0Mt CO2e
54	Lithuania	0.0Mt CO2e
55	Faroe Islands	0.0Mt CO2e
56	Greece	0.0Mt CO2e
57	Brunei Darussalam	0.0Mt CO2e
58	Ethiopia	0.0Mt CO2e
59	Kenya	0.0Mt CO2e
60	Uruguay	0.0Mt CO2e
61	Switzerland	0.0Mt CO2e
62	Greenland	0.0Mt CO2e
63	Iceland	0.0Mt CO2e
64	Papua New Guinea	0.0Mt CO2e
65	Bahamas	0.0Mt CO2e
66	Macao	0.0Mt CO2e
67	Mongolia	0.0Mt CO2e
68	Austria	0.0Mt CO2e
69	Jamaica	0.0Mt CO2e
70	Gibraltar	0.0Mt CO2e
71	Kuwait	0.0Mt CO2e
72	Bulgaria	0.0Mt CO2e
73	Cuba	0.0Mt CO2e
74	Dominican Republic	0.0Mt CO2e
75	Egypt	0.0Mt CO2e
76	Benin	0.0Mt CO2e
77	Gabon	0.0Mt CO2e
78	Estonia	0.0Mt CO2e
79	Jordan	0.0Mt CO2e
80	Timor-Leste	0.0Mt CO2e
81	Suriname	0.0Mt CO2e
82	Togo	0.0Mt CO2e
83	Dominica	0.0Mt CO2e
84	Guyana	0.0Mt CO2e
85	Malta	0.0Mt CO2e
86	Mauritius	0.0Mt CO2e
87	Paraguay	0.0Mt CO2e
88	Republic of the Congo	0.0Mt CO2e
89	Croatia	0.0Mt CO2e
90	Lebanon	0.0Mt CO2e
91	Latvia	0.0Mt CO2e
92	Palau	0.0Mt CO2e
93	Qatar	0.0Mt CO2e
94	Saint Lucia	0.0Mt CO2e
95	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.0Mt CO2e
96	Spain	0.0Mt CO2e

Showing 96 of 96 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Development Indicators (2024).

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