environmental2024

Nitrous oxide emissions from waste

Name: Nitrous oxide emissions from waste
Creator: World Development Indicators
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, waste-emissions, en.ghg.n2o.wa.mt.ce.ar5

Compare nitrous oxide emissions from waste across 203 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2024 official-source dataset.

Source: World Development Indicators•203 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

0.7Mt CO2e

Median: 0.1Mt CO2e

Countries Covered

203

with available data

Highest

People's Republic of China

31.7Mt CO2e

Lowest

Tuvalu

0.0Mt CO2e

Top 5 Countries

1People's Republic of China31.7Mt CO2e

2India18.9Mt CO2e

3United States of America9.9Mt CO2e

4Brazil3.8Mt CO2e

5Indonesia3.8Mt CO2e

By Region

Key Findings

•Coverage: 203 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2024.
•Published range: 0.0001 to 31.6907 Mt CO2e.
•Discovery motivation: Google Trends surfaced Tiertransport, motivating environmental externalities of consumption and waste systems.

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 (31.7Mt CO2e)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 0.7Mt CO2e)

About This Statistic

A measure of annual emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), 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

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	People's Republic of China	31.7Mt CO2e
2	India	18.9Mt CO2e
3	United States of America	9.9Mt CO2e
4	Brazil	3.8Mt CO2e
5	Indonesia	3.8Mt CO2e
6	Russian Federation	3.1Mt CO2e
7	Pakistan	2.6Mt CO2e
8	Japan	2.5Mt CO2e
9	Mexico	2.4Mt CO2e
10	Germany	2.3Mt CO2e
11	Nigeria	2.2Mt CO2e
12	United Kingdom	2.0Mt CO2e
13	Bangladesh	2.0Mt CO2e
14	Egypt	1.9Mt CO2e
15	France	1.9Mt CO2e
16	Türkiye	1.7Mt CO2e
17	Vietnam	1.7Mt CO2e
18	Colombia	1.7Mt CO2e
19	Ethiopia	1.6Mt CO2e
20	Spain	1.5Mt CO2e
21	Philippines	1.5Mt CO2e
22	Italy	1.4Mt CO2e
23	Canada	1.3Mt CO2e
24	South Korea	1.2Mt CO2e
25	Islamic Republic of Iran	1.2Mt CO2e
26	Australia	1.0Mt CO2e
27	Argentina	1.0Mt CO2e
28	Thailand	0.9Mt CO2e
29	Poland	0.9Mt CO2e
30	South Africa	0.8Mt CO2e
31	Sudan	0.8Mt CO2e
32	Algeria	0.7Mt CO2e
33	Myanmar	0.7Mt CO2e
34	United Republic of Tanzania	0.7Mt CO2e
35	Ukraine	0.6Mt CO2e
36	Morocco	0.6Mt CO2e
37	Uzbekistan	0.6Mt CO2e
38	Saudi Arabia	0.6Mt CO2e
39	Netherlands	0.6Mt CO2e
40	Iraq	0.6Mt CO2e
41	Malaysia	0.5Mt CO2e
42	Peru	0.5Mt CO2e
43	Kenya	0.5Mt CO2e
44	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.5Mt CO2e
45	Uganda	0.5Mt CO2e
46	Nepal	0.4Mt CO2e
47	Afghanistan	0.4Mt CO2e
48	Niger	0.4Mt CO2e
49	Ghana	0.4Mt CO2e
50	Israel	0.4Mt CO2e
51	Chile	0.4Mt CO2e
52	Venezuela	0.4Mt CO2e
53	Kazakhstan	0.4Mt CO2e
54	Burkina Faso	0.4Mt CO2e
55	Romania	0.4Mt CO2e
56	Cameroon	0.3Mt CO2e
57	Yemen	0.3Mt CO2e
58	Cote d'Ivoire	0.3Mt CO2e
59	Belgium	0.3Mt CO2e
60	Senegal	0.3Mt CO2e
61	Angola	0.3Mt CO2e
62	Mali	0.3Mt CO2e
63	Mozambique	0.3Mt CO2e
64	Portugal	0.3Mt CO2e
65	Czech Republic	0.3Mt CO2e
66	Syrian Arab Republic	0.3Mt CO2e
67	Sri Lanka	0.3Mt CO2e
68	Austria	0.3Mt CO2e
69	Malawi	0.2Mt CO2e
70	Slovakia	0.2Mt CO2e
71	Guatemala	0.2Mt CO2e
72	Chad	0.2Mt CO2e
73	United Arab Emirates	0.2Mt CO2e
74	Ecuador	0.2Mt CO2e
75	Tunisia	0.2Mt CO2e
76	Belarus	0.2Mt CO2e
77	Sweden	0.2Mt CO2e
78	Denmark	0.2Mt CO2e
79	Madagascar	0.2Mt CO2e
80	Greece	0.2Mt CO2e
81	Finland	0.2Mt CO2e
82	Hungary	0.2Mt CO2e
83	Zimbabwe	0.2Mt CO2e
84	Cambodia	0.2Mt CO2e
85	Switzerland	0.2Mt CO2e
86	Azerbaijan	0.2Mt CO2e
87	Hong Kong	0.2Mt CO2e
88	Cuba	0.2Mt CO2e
89	Dominican Republic	0.2Mt CO2e
90	Benin	0.2Mt CO2e
91	Bolivia	0.2Mt CO2e
92	Zambia	0.2Mt CO2e
93	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.2Mt CO2e
94	Guinea	0.2Mt CO2e
95	Tajikistan	0.1Mt CO2e
96	Ireland	0.1Mt CO2e
97	New Zealand	0.1Mt CO2e
98	Norway	0.1Mt CO2e
99	Rwanda	0.1Mt CO2e
100	Jordan	0.1Mt CO2e
101	Somalia	0.1Mt CO2e
102	Libya	0.1Mt CO2e
103	Honduras	0.1Mt CO2e
104	Bulgaria	0.1Mt CO2e
105	Turkmenistan	0.1Mt CO2e
106	Lao People's Democratic Republic	0.1Mt CO2e
107	Kyrgyzstan	0.1Mt CO2e
108	Albania	0.1Mt CO2e
109	El Salvador	0.1Mt CO2e
110	Lebanon	0.1Mt CO2e
111	Papua New Guinea	0.1Mt CO2e
112	Paraguay	0.1Mt CO2e
113	Singapore	0.1Mt CO2e
114	Burundi	0.1Mt CO2e
115	Croatia	0.1Mt CO2e
116	Haiti	0.1Mt CO2e
117	Kuwait	0.1Mt CO2e
118	Lithuania	0.1Mt CO2e
119	Oman	0.1Mt CO2e
120	The Republic of North Macedonia	0.1Mt CO2e
121	Togo	0.1Mt CO2e
122	Nicaragua	0.1Mt CO2e
123	Qatar	0.1Mt CO2e
124	Costa Rica	0.1Mt CO2e
125	Sierra Leone	0.1Mt CO2e
126	Mongolia	0.1Mt CO2e
127	Mauritania	0.1Mt CO2e
128	Panama	0.1Mt CO2e
129	Uruguay	0.1Mt CO2e
130	Georgia	0.1Mt CO2e
131	Republic of the Congo	0.1Mt CO2e
132	Eritrea	0.1Mt CO2e
133	Moldova, Republic of	0.1Mt CO2e
134	Central African Republic	0.1Mt CO2e
135	Latvia	0.1Mt CO2e
136	Armenia	0.1Mt CO2e
137	Jamaica	0.0Mt CO2e
138	Puerto Rico	0.0Mt CO2e
139	Slovenia	0.0Mt CO2e
140	Liberia	0.0Mt CO2e
141	Estonia	0.0Mt CO2e
142	Gabon	0.0Mt CO2e
143	Namibia	0.0Mt CO2e
144	Bahrain	0.0Mt CO2e
145	Cyprus	0.0Mt CO2e
146	Botswana	0.0Mt CO2e
147	Republic of The Gambia	0.0Mt CO2e
148	Mauritius	0.0Mt CO2e
149	Trinidad and Tobago	0.0Mt CO2e
150	Lesotho	0.0Mt CO2e
151	Guinea-Bissau	0.0Mt CO2e
152	Luxembourg	0.0Mt CO2e
153	Eswatini	0.0Mt CO2e
154	Belize	0.0Mt CO2e
155	Timor-Leste	0.0Mt CO2e
156	Guyana	0.0Mt CO2e
157	Fiji	0.0Mt CO2e
158	Djibouti	0.0Mt CO2e
159	Macao	0.0Mt CO2e
160	Equatorial Guinea	0.0Mt CO2e
161	Bhutan	0.0Mt CO2e
162	Iceland	0.0Mt CO2e
163	Comoros	0.0Mt CO2e
164	Maldives	0.0Mt CO2e
165	Cape Verde	0.0Mt CO2e
166	Suriname	0.0Mt CO2e
167	Malta	0.0Mt CO2e
168	Bahamas	0.0Mt CO2e
169	Solomon Islands	0.0Mt CO2e
170	French Polynesia	0.0Mt CO2e
171	Barbados	0.0Mt CO2e
172	New Caledonia	0.0Mt CO2e
173	Vanuatu	0.0Mt CO2e
174	Samoa	0.0Mt CO2e
175	Saint Lucia	0.0Mt CO2e
176	Guam	0.0Mt CO2e
177	Tonga	0.0Mt CO2e
178	Sao Tome and Principe	0.0Mt CO2e
179	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.0Mt CO2e
180	Seychelles	0.0Mt CO2e
181	Kiribati	0.0Mt CO2e
182	Grenada	0.0Mt CO2e
183	Antigua and Barbuda	0.0Mt CO2e
184	Micronesia, Federated States of	0.0Mt CO2e
185	Dominica	0.0Mt CO2e
186	Aruba	0.0Mt CO2e
187	Greenland	0.0Mt CO2e
188	Marshall Islands	0.0Mt CO2e
189	Virgin Islands, U.S.	0.0Mt CO2e
190	Faroe Islands	0.0Mt CO2e
191	Northern Mariana Islands	0.0Mt CO2e
192	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.0Mt CO2e
193	Cayman Islands	0.0Mt CO2e
194	North Korea	0.0Mt CO2e
195	American Samoa	0.0Mt CO2e
196	Gibraltar	0.0Mt CO2e
197	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.0Mt CO2e
198	Bermuda	0.0Mt CO2e
199	Palau	0.0Mt CO2e
200	Virgin Islands, British	0.0Mt CO2e
201	Brunei Darussalam	0.0Mt CO2e
202	Nauru	0.0Mt CO2e
203	Tuvalu	0.0Mt CO2e

Showing 203 of 203 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Development Indicators (2024).

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