# Countries by methane emissions, 2025

All 217 values come from European Commission, Joint Research Centre for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `methane_emissions`
- Unit: thousand tonnes of methane
- Definition: 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.
- Source: 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/)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/edgar-jrc
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/methane-emissions/countries

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