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Methane emissions

million tonnes CO₂-equivalent · Annual · 209 of 218 countries (96 %) · 1850–2024
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World total
9,500.9 Mt CO₂e
across 209 countries, 2024
Latest observation
2024
Source updated
13 Jul 2026
CountryAtlas refreshed
11 Sep 2026
Snapshot 20260911T072322Z

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One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.

1850–2024 · 209 countries
Methane emissions, 2024World map of Methane emissions (2024) for 209 countries, from 0.0 Mt CO₂e to 1,590.7 Mt CO₂e.Fiji: 0.8 Mt CO₂eTanzania: 62.0 Mt CO₂eW. Sahara: —Canada: 115.3 Mt CO₂eUnited States: 818.3 Mt CO₂eKazakhstan: 55.0 Mt CO₂eUzbekistan: 52.6 Mt CO₂ePapua New Guinea: 3.8 Mt CO₂eIndonesia: 412.0 Mt CO₂eArgentina: 114.1 Mt CO₂eChile: 18.6 Mt CO₂eDR Congo: 52.4 Mt CO₂eSomalia: 25.3 Mt CO₂eKenya: 53.8 Mt CO₂eSudan: 69.7 Mt CO₂eChad: 73.7 Mt CO₂eHaiti: 8.9 Mt CO₂eDominican Republic: 12.2 Mt CO₂eRussia: 474.1 Mt CO₂eBahamas: 0.3 Mt CO₂eFalkland Is.: —Norway: 8.4 Mt CO₂eGreenland: 0.1 Mt CO₂eFr. S. Antarctic Lands: —Timor-Leste: 1.0 Mt CO₂eSouth Africa: 79.3 Mt CO₂eLesotho: 1.3 Mt CO₂eMexico: 151.8 Mt CO₂eUruguay: 25.0 Mt CO₂eBrazil: 580.0 Mt CO₂eBolivia: 27.6 Mt CO₂ePeru: 31.7 Mt CO₂eColombia: 91.3 Mt CO₂ePanama: 4.2 Mt CO₂eCosta Rica: 5.5 Mt CO₂eNicaragua: 11.5 Mt CO₂eHonduras: 9.0 Mt CO₂eEl Salvador: 3.2 Mt CO₂eGuatemala: 18.4 Mt CO₂eBelize: 0.5 Mt CO₂eVenezuela: 47.6 Mt CO₂eGuyana: 3.9 Mt CO₂eSuriname: 0.9 Mt CO₂eFrance: 62.8 Mt CO₂eEcuador: 21.7 Mt CO₂ePuerto Rico: 1.5 Mt CO₂eJamaica: 0.8 Mt CO₂eCuba: 11.7 Mt CO₂eZimbabwe: 13.3 Mt CO₂eBotswana: 10.2 Mt CO₂eNamibia: 6.2 Mt CO₂eSenegal: 11.4 Mt CO₂eMali: 29.0 Mt CO₂eMauritania: 9.1 Mt CO₂eBenin: 7.6 Mt CO₂eNiger: 30.2 Mt CO₂eNigeria: 193.7 Mt CO₂eCameroon: 21.4 Mt CO₂eTogo: 6.4 Mt CO₂eGhana: 19.5 Mt CO₂eCôte d'Ivoire: 13.0 Mt CO₂eGuinea: 21.5 Mt CO₂eGuinea-Bissau: 2.1 Mt CO₂eLiberia: 2.6 Mt CO₂eSierra Leone: 5.4 Mt CO₂eBurkina Faso: 22.7 Mt CO₂eCentral African Republic: 13.1 Mt CO₂eRepublic of the Congo: 15.1 Mt CO₂eGabon: 14.3 Mt CO₂eEquatorial Guinea: 2.7 Mt CO₂eZambia: 21.1 Mt CO₂eMalawi: 8.4 Mt CO₂eMozambique: 27.1 Mt CO₂eEswatini: 1.2 Mt CO₂eAngola: 43.5 Mt CO₂eBurundi: 4.7 Mt CO₂eIsrael: 9.0 Mt CO₂eLebanon: 4.0 Mt CO₂eMadagascar: 24.8 Mt CO₂ePalestine: —Gambia: 1.2 Mt CO₂eTunisia: 8.4 Mt CO₂eAlgeria: 69.2 Mt CO₂eJordan: 5.9 Mt CO₂eUnited Arab Emirates: 37.6 Mt CO₂eQatar: 22.5 Mt CO₂eKuwait: 39.5 Mt CO₂eIraq: 156.2 Mt CO₂eOman: 32.9 Mt CO₂eVanuatu: 0.3 Mt CO₂eCambodia: 23.8 Mt CO₂eThailand: 95.8 Mt CO₂eLaos: 11.4 Mt CO₂eMyanmar: 56.5 Mt CO₂eVietnam: 95.0 Mt CO₂eNorth Korea: 19.0 Mt CO₂eSouth Korea: 39.7 Mt CO₂eMongolia: 42.4 Mt CO₂eIndia: 859.3 Mt CO₂eBangladesh: 95.6 Mt CO₂eBhutan: 1.1 Mt CO₂eNepal: 27.9 Mt CO₂ePakistan: 228.6 Mt CO₂eAfghanistan: 16.6 Mt CO₂eTajikistan: 8.1 Mt CO₂eKyrgyzstan: 8.0 Mt CO₂eTurkmenistan: 23.5 Mt CO₂eIran: 171.0 Mt CO₂eSyria: 6.1 Mt CO₂eArmenia: 1.6 Mt CO₂eSweden: 7.9 Mt CO₂eBelarus: 18.6 Mt CO₂eUkraine: 52.4 Mt CO₂ePoland: 44.5 Mt CO₂eAustria: 9.3 Mt CO₂eHungary: 9.5 Mt CO₂eMoldova: 2.1 Mt CO₂eRomania: 21.6 Mt CO₂eLithuania: 2.6 Mt CO₂eLatvia: 2.3 Mt CO₂eEstonia: 1.3 Mt CO₂eGermany: 56.1 Mt CO₂eBulgaria: 9.0 Mt CO₂eGreece: 9.9 Mt CO₂eTürkiye: 111.8 Mt CO₂eAlbania: 2.2 Mt CO₂eCroatia: 3.2 Mt CO₂eSwitzerland: 6.0 Mt CO₂eLuxembourg: 0.5 Mt CO₂eBelgium: 11.9 Mt CO₂eNetherlands: 19.1 Mt CO₂ePortugal: 10.8 Mt CO₂eSpain: 44.6 Mt CO₂eIreland: 17.6 Mt CO₂eNew Caledonia: 0.2 Mt CO₂eSolomon Islands: 0.3 Mt CO₂eNew Zealand: 34.6 Mt CO₂eAustralia: 135.6 Mt CO₂eSri Lanka: 11.1 Mt CO₂eChina: 1,590.7 Mt CO₂eTaiwan: 15.5 Mt CO₂eItaly: 40.8 Mt CO₂eDenmark: 10.2 Mt CO₂eUnited Kingdom: 43.8 Mt CO₂eIceland: 0.6 Mt CO₂eAzerbaijan: 12.7 Mt CO₂eGeorgia: 3.3 Mt CO₂ePhilippines: 78.9 Mt CO₂eMalaysia: 28.3 Mt CO₂eBrunei: 1.6 Mt CO₂eSlovenia: 2.3 Mt CO₂eFinland: 5.7 Mt CO₂eSlovakia: 5.8 Mt CO₂eCzechia: 12.6 Mt CO₂eEritrea: 4.7 Mt CO₂eJapan: 28.8 Mt CO₂eParaguay: 24.9 Mt CO₂eYemen: 11.6 Mt CO₂eSaudi Arabia: 117.0 Mt CO₂eN. Cyprus: —Cyprus: 2.4 Mt CO₂eMorocco: 30.3 Mt CO₂eEgypt: 49.8 Mt CO₂eLibya: 28.2 Mt CO₂eEthiopia: 119.0 Mt CO₂eDjibouti: 1.2 Mt CO₂eSomaliland: —Uganda: 37.1 Mt CO₂eRwanda: 4.7 Mt CO₂eBosnia and Herzegovina: 5.6 Mt CO₂eNorth Macedonia: 1.5 Mt CO₂eSerbia: 6.9 Mt CO₂eMontenegro: 0.6 Mt CO₂eKosovo: —Trinidad and Tobago: 5.2 Mt CO₂eSouth Sudan: 31.3 Mt CO₂e
Methane emissions, 2024
  • 0.0 Mt CO₂e – 0.2 Mt CO₂e
  • 0.2 Mt CO₂e – 3.2 Mt CO₂e
  • 3.2 Mt CO₂e – 9.1 Mt CO₂e
  • 9.1 Mt CO₂e – 21.6 Mt CO₂e
  • 21.6 Mt CO₂e – 50.7 Mt CO₂e
  • 50.7 Mt CO₂e – 1,590.7 Mt CO₂e
  • No data
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Definition

Definition
Unit
million tonnes CO₂-equivalent (Mt CO₂e)
Frequency
Annual
Aggregation
sum · No direction
Valid range
0 – ∞

Sources & provenance

Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.

  1. Priority #1
    Our World in Dataco2methaneok
    196 countries · 34,300 obs. · → 2024 · CC BY 4.0

    OWID CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions dataset — https://github.com/owid/co2-data

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  2. Priority #2
    World BankWDIEN.GHG.CH4.MT.CE.AR5ok
    203 countries · 11,165 obs. · → 2024 · CC BY 4.0

    A measure of annual emissions of methane (CH4), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the agriculture, energy, waste, and industrial sectors, excluding LULUCF. The measure is standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values using the Global Warming Potential (GWP) factors of IPCC's 5th Assessment Report (AR5). Source: EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG Database, Joint Research Centre (JRC) - European Commission, uri: https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_ghg2024, publisher: JRC European Commission, date published: 2024; International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_ghg2024, publisher: JRC European Commission, date published: 2024

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Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.

Countries without data

9 of 218 countries have no value for 2024.

Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.

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curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=methane-emissions" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'

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