# EU countries by methane emissions, 2025

All 27 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/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | thousand tonnes of methane |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | France | 2,283.2 |
| 2 | Germany | 1,894.1 |
| 3 | Italy | 1,595 |
| 4 | Spain | 1,574.1 |
| 5 | Poland | 1,494.4 |
| 6 | Romania | 624.7 |
| 7 | Ireland | 624.4 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 601.4 |
| 9 | Czechia | 471.4 |
| 10 | Finland | 402.1 |
| 11 | Belgium | 399.4 |
| 12 | Portugal | 398.7 |
| 13 | Greece | 392.1 |
| 14 | Hungary | 369.7 |
| 15 | Sweden | 323 |
| 16 | Denmark | 284.1 |
| 17 | Austria | 280.4 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 265 |
| 19 | Slovakia | 177.4 |
| 20 | Croatia | 143.1 |
| 21 | Lithuania | 117.4 |
| 22 | Slovenia | 94.8 |
| 23 | Latvia | 68.5 |
| 24 | Estonia | 51.6 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 41.8 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 23.1 |
| 27 | Malta | 8.6 |