Countries by methane emissions, 2025

China had the highest methane emissions of 217 countries in 2025, at 51,093.4 thousand tonnes of methane. Tokelau had the lowest, at 0 thousand tonnes of methane. The median was 282.4 thousand tonnes of methane. Source: the European Commission, Joint Research Centre.

Highest51,093.4China

Lowest0Tokelau

Median282.4217 countries

Top 40 countries, 2025

thousand tonnes of methane. Source: EDGAR (European Commission, JRC), EDGAR CH4 emissions by country, thousand tonnes (Gg) of methane. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2025 thousand tonnes of methane	Change on 2024
1	China Provisional	51,093.4	+0.4%
2	India Provisional	31,300.6	+0.9%
3	United States Provisional	29,362.3	+1.3%
4	Brazil Provisional	21,983.5	-3.4%
5	Indonesia Provisional	14,716.7	-2.9%
6	Russia Provisional	14,613.6	-0.6%
7	Pakistan Provisional	9,197.8	+1.7%
8	Nigeria Provisional	6,225.2	+3.1%
9	Iran Provisional	5,516.2	+2.2%
10	Iraq Provisional	5,189.6	+1.9%
11	Mexico Provisional	5,136.2	+3.3%
12	Australia Provisional	5,027.9	-0.9%
13	Argentina Provisional	4,731.5	+0.5%
14	Canada Provisional	4,538.3	+3%
15	Ethiopia Provisional	4,464.4	+1.5%
16	Vietnam Provisional	4,228	+0.1%
17	Saudi Arabia Provisional	4,052.8	+4.9%
18	Colombia Provisional	3,160.7	-1.6%
19	South Africa Provisional	2,994.8	-0%
20	Myanmar Provisional	2,828.6	+0.7%
21	Bangladesh Provisional	2,826.1	+1.8%
22	Chad Provisional	2,706.6	+4%
23	Türkiye Provisional	2,632.5	+0.9%
24	Philippines Provisional	2,615.9	+0.3%
25	Thailand Provisional	2,551.6	-0.4%
26	Kenya Provisional	2,374.6	+1.1%
27	Uzbekistan Provisional	2,309.9	-1.6%
28	France Provisional	2,283.2	-1.2%
29	Mongolia Provisional	2,217.3	-1%
30	Kazakhstan Provisional	2,216.2	+4.5%
31	Tanzania Provisional	2,120.9	+2.7%
32	Algeria Provisional	2,037.2	+2.4%
33	Ukraine Provisional	2,007.8	-5.4%
34	Egypt Provisional	1,995.1	-0.3%
35	Venezuela Provisional	1,895.5	+3.3%
36	Germany Provisional	1,894.1	-0.2%
37	Japan Provisional	1,857.8	-0.7%
38	United Kingdom Provisional	1,822.5	-1.3%
39	Italy Provisional	1,595	-3.4%
40	Spain Provisional	1,574.1	-2%
41	South Korea Provisional	1,555.1	-2.5%
42	Poland Provisional	1,494.4	-0.5%
43	Democratic Republic of the Congo Provisional	1,423.4	+1.3%
44	Kuwait Provisional	1,348.6	+2%
45	Uganda Provisional	1,331.8	+0.4%
46	United Arab Emirates Provisional	1,201.5	+3.9%
47	New Zealand Provisional	1,190.3	-0.2%
48	Angola Provisional	1,175.2	-3.5%
49	Niger Provisional	1,103	+4%
50	Oman Provisional	1,077.1	+1.4%
51	Mali Provisional	1,072.7	+2.9%
52	Libya Provisional	1,059.9	+15.5%
53	Morocco Provisional	1,039.8	+0.2%
54	Cambodia Provisional	1,022.3	-1%
55	Uruguay Provisional	990.3	-0%
56	Paraguay Provisional	957.9	-0.1%
57	Peru Provisional	948.8	+0.2%
58	Bolivia Provisional	943	+1.6%
59	Somalia Provisional	927.9	-0%
60	Turkmenistan Provisional	899.5	+0.5%
61	Nepal Provisional	846	-2.4%
62	Madagascar Provisional	831.3	-4.3%
63	Malaysia Provisional	830.5	-0.3%
64	Bahrain Provisional	788.6	+0.2%
65	Chile Provisional	785.7	-0.8%
66	Cameroon Provisional	771.2	+0.5%
67	Qatar Provisional	751.4	+0.9%
68	Mozambique Provisional	749.3	+3.4%
69	Ecuador Provisional	730.3	-2.7%
70	North Korea Provisional	728	-1.7%
71	Zambia Provisional	712.8	+1.8%
72	Burkina Faso Provisional	683.3	-0.2%
73	Guinea Provisional	681	+2.1%
74	Belarus Provisional	663	-0.5%
75	Romania Provisional	624.7	-0.6%
76	Ireland Provisional	624.4	+0.1%
77	Ghana Provisional	601.5	+1%
78	Netherlands Provisional	601.4	-1%
79	Afghanistan Provisional	585.3	+1%
80	Taiwan Provisional	553.8	+0.9%
81	Azerbaijan Provisional	537.7	-0.4%
82	Republic of the Congo Provisional	501.6	+3.5%
83	Côte d’Ivoire Provisional	491.9	+1.6%
84	Guatemala Provisional	475.8	+0.4%
85	Zimbabwe Provisional	471.9	+4%
86	Czechia Provisional	471.4	+0.2%
87	Laos Provisional	468.9	+2.8%
88	Gabon Provisional	462.2	+1.4%
89	Dominican Republic Provisional	451.6	+1.1%
90	Senegal Provisional	444.8	+2.7%
91	Finland Provisional	402.1	+8.5%
92	Belgium Provisional	399.4	-0.2%
93	Portugal Provisional	398.7	+0.5%
94	Yemen Provisional	396.3	+0.6%
95	Greece Provisional	392.1	-0.5%
96	Cuba Provisional	391.4	-2%
97	Nicaragua Provisional	375.8	+0.1%
98	Hungary Provisional	369.7	-1.3%
99	Tajikistan Provisional	358	+0.4%
100	Kyrgyzstan Provisional	352	+1%
101	Malawi Provisional	347.7	+3.1%
102	Honduras Provisional	339.4	+0.9%
103	Mauritania Provisional	325.7	+0.9%
104	Sweden Provisional	323	+1%
105	Norway Provisional	313	-0%
106	Sri Lanka Provisional	301	+1.2%
107	Haiti Provisional	298.6	+0.4%
108	Denmark Provisional	284.1	0%
109	Tunisia Provisional	282.4	-1.1%
110	Austria Provisional	280.4	+0.8%
111	Central African Republic Provisional	277.3	+0.8%
112	Benin Provisional	276.6	+2.6%
113	Bulgaria Provisional	265	+1%
114	Jordan Provisional	227.2	+2.3%
115	Namibia Provisional	227.1	+0.7%
116	Switzerland Provisional	222.6	+1.4%
117	Syria Provisional	212.2	-0.1%
118	Rwanda Provisional	199.8	+0.9%
119	Togo Provisional	199.1	+1.7%
120	Sierra Leone Provisional	195.4	+0.6%
121	Guyana Provisional	186	-7.1%
122	Bosnia and Herzegovina Provisional	181.4	-2.1%
123	Slovakia Provisional	177.4	-0.6%
124	Hong Kong Provisional	174.6	+0.8%
125	Burundi Provisional	174.2	+1.6%
126	Costa Rica Provisional	171.3	0%
127	Panama Provisional	169.4	+0.7%
128	Trinidad and Tobago Provisional	160.4	-1.3%
129	Eritrea Provisional	150.4	+0.5%
130	Lebanon Provisional	149.9	+1.1%
131	Georgia Provisional	144.6	+0.3%
132	Croatia Provisional	143.1	+0.2%
133	El Salvador Provisional	140.1	+0.8%
134	Singapore Provisional	132.6	-0.3%
135	Botswana Provisional	123.3	+1%
136	Lithuania Provisional	117.4	-0.5%
137	Liberia Provisional	115.5	+0.6%
138	Papua New Guinea Provisional	110.1	+1.6%
139	Slovenia Provisional	94.8	-2.3%
140	Armenia Provisional	94.5	+2%
141	Moldova Provisional	90.6	-0.9%
142	Equatorial Guinea Provisional	87.4	-14.6%
143	Guinea-Bissau Provisional	87.1	+0.5%
144	Albania Provisional	76.2	-7.7%
145	Latvia Provisional	68.5	-2.4%
146	Brunei Provisional	64.9	+4.4%
147	Lesotho Provisional	64.6	+2.9%
148	Eswatini Provisional	58.7	+3.6%
149	Puerto Rico Provisional	54.1	-0.5%
150	Estonia Provisional	51.6	-7.4%
151	Djibouti Provisional	46.4	+1.3%
152	North Macedonia Provisional	42.8	-3.5%
153	Cyprus Provisional	41.8	+0.4%
154	Bhutan Provisional	40.1	+1.6%
155	Gambia Provisional	39.8	+0.8%
156	Suriname Provisional	32.1	-4%
157	Timor-Leste Provisional	32	-0.3%
158	Jamaica Provisional	30.7	-0%
159	Fiji Provisional	26.8	-0.9%
160	Luxembourg Provisional	23.1	-0.1%
161	Mauritius Provisional	20.8	+0.4%
162	Comoros Provisional	15.6	+0.8%
163	Iceland Provisional	15.4	-14.9%
164	Western Sahara Provisional	12.9	+1.4%
165	Bahamas Provisional	12.9	+0.8%
166	Vanuatu Provisional	9.5	+0.5%
167	Belize Provisional	9.4	0%
168	Guadeloupe Provisional	9	-0.1%
169	Réunion Provisional	8.6	+0.9%
170	Malta Provisional	8.6	+2.1%
171	New Caledonia Provisional	7.6	-0%
172	Solomon Islands Provisional	6.6	+1.4%
173	Cape Verde Provisional	6.4	+1.6%
174	Maldives Provisional	6.3	+2.5%
175	French Guiana Provisional	6.2	+1.1%
176	Barbados Provisional	6.2	0%
177	Samoa Provisional	4.7	+0.4%
178	Falkland Islands Provisional	4.2	+0.7%
179	Martinique Provisional	3.7	-0.3%
180	Tonga Provisional	3.3	+0.5%
181	French Polynesia Provisional	3.3	+0.4%
182	São Tomé and Príncipe Provisional	2.8	+1%
183	Seychelles Provisional	2.6	+1.5%
184	Saint Lucia Provisional	2.4	+0.4%
185	Greenland Provisional	2.3	+0.2%
186	Antigua and Barbuda Provisional	2.2	-0.1%
187	Dominica Provisional	2	+0.3%
188	Grenada Provisional	2	+1.2%
189	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Provisional	1.8	+0.7%
190	Micronesia Provisional	1.7	+2.8%
191	Macao Provisional	1.7	+1.2%
192	Faroe Islands Provisional	1.7	+0.2%
193	Saint Kitts and Nevis Provisional	1.5	+1.3%
194	Palau Provisional	1.1	-1.7%
195	Cayman Islands Provisional	1.1	+1.3%
196	Kiribati Provisional	1.1	+1.9%
197	Aruba Provisional	1.1	+0.4%
198	Bermuda Provisional	1	-0.4%
199	U.S. Virgin Islands Provisional	0.8	0%
200	Montserrat Provisional	0.6	-0.7%
201	Gibraltar Provisional	0.6	+1.2%
202	Guam Provisional	0.5	+0.6%
203	Mayotte Provisional	0.5	+2.3%
204	British Virgin Islands Provisional	0.5	+0.8%
205	Cook Islands Provisional	0.3	-1%
206	American Samoa Provisional	0.3	+0.1%
207	Turks and Caicos Islands Provisional	0.2	-2.5%
208	Saint Pierre and Miquelon Provisional	0.2	+0.1%
209	Wallis and Futuna Provisional	0.2	-0.4%
210	Northern Mariana Islands Provisional	0.2	+0.3%
211	Tuvalu Provisional	0.2	+0.3%
212	Anguilla Provisional	0.1	+0.3%
213	Marshall Islands Provisional	0.1	+0.2%
214	Saint Helena Provisional	0.1	0%
215	Nauru Provisional	0.1	0%
216	Niue Provisional	0	+0.5%
217	Tokelau Provisional	0	+5.5%

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About this ranking

Methane (CH4) emitted in the year, in thousand tonnes of methane, from agriculture (livestock, manure, rice), fossil fuel production and distribution, waste and wastewater, fuel combustion and industry, as estimated by EDGAR. EDGAR estimates every country with the same IPCC methods and international activity statistics, so countries can be compared, but the values differ from the inventories countries report themselves. Emissions from land use, land use change and forestry and from large scale biomass burning (savannah and forest fires) are not included. The latest two years are fast track estimates from proxy statistics, replaced in later releases, and are marked provisional.

Tonnes of the gas itself, not CO2 equivalent: EDGAR weights a tonne of methane as 28 tonnes of CO2 (30 for fossil methane) over 100 years (IPCC AR5). EDGAR counts Andorra with Spain, Monaco with France, San Marino and the Holy See with Italy, and Liechtenstein with Switzerland. It reports Israel and Palestine, Sudan and South Sudan, and Serbia and Montenegro together, so those countries have no value here. Each release revises past years.

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EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG Database, European Commission, Joint Research Centre. EDGAR CH4 emissions by country, thousand tonnes (Gg) of methane. https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/EDGAR/datasets/EDGAR_2026_GHG/. Retrieved 2026-10-12. © European Union, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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@misc{european_countries_by_methane_emissions_2025,
  author = {{European Commission, Joint Research Centre}},
  title = {{EDGAR CH4 emissions by country, thousand tonnes (Gg) of methane: Countries by methane emissions, 2025}},
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