EU countries by nitrous oxide emissions, 2025
France had the highest nitrous oxide emissions of 27 EU countries in 2025, at 119.67 thousand tonnes of nitrous oxide. Malta had the lowest, at 0.19 thousand tonnes of nitrous oxide. The median was 16.71 thousand tonnes of nitrous oxide. Source: the European Commission, Joint Research Centre.
All EU countries, 2025
Full ranking
| Rank | EU countries | 2025 | Change on 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France Provisional | 119.67 | +0.2% |
| 2 | Germany Provisional | 115.2 | -0.3% |
| 3 | Poland Provisional | 88.87 | +0.5% |
| 4 | Spain Provisional | 72.21 | -0.5% |
| 5 | Italy Provisional | 56.23 | -0.9% |
| 6 | Romania Provisional | 31.29 | +1.2% |
| 7 | Netherlands Provisional | 31.06 | -0.1% |
| 8 | Ireland Provisional | 30.16 | -1.6% |
| 9 | Sweden Provisional | 22.31 | +1.1% |
| 10 | Czechia Provisional | 20.54 | +0.8% |
| 11 | Finland Provisional | 20.24 | -0.3% |
| 12 | Belgium Provisional | 18.16 | -0.2% |
| 13 | Denmark Provisional | 17.19 | +1% |
| 14 | Hungary Provisional | 16.71 | -4.2% |
| 15 | Lithuania Provisional | 16.03 | +0.3% |
| 16 | Bulgaria Provisional | 14.28 | -0.2% |
| 17 | Austria Provisional | 12.63 | +0.8% |
| 18 | Greece Provisional | 12.52 | -1.1% |
| 19 | Portugal Provisional | 11.53 | -0.5% |
| 20 | Latvia Provisional | 8.12 | +1% |
| 21 | Slovakia Provisional | 6.89 | -0% |
| 22 | Croatia Provisional | 6.51 | -0.5% |
| 23 | Estonia Provisional | 6.5 | +1% |
| 24 | Slovenia Provisional | 2.82 | -0.4% |
| 25 | Cyprus Provisional | 1.15 | +0.1% |
| 26 | Luxembourg Provisional | 0.88 | -1.4% |
| 27 | Malta Provisional | 0.19 | -1.3% |
Other periods
About this ranking
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emitted in the year, in thousand tonnes of nitrous oxide, mostly from fertilised agricultural soils and manure, plus industry (nitric and adipic acid), fuel combustion and wastewater, 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 nitrous oxide as 265 tonnes of CO2 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.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the EU countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.
How to cite
EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG Database, European Commission, Joint Research Centre. EDGAR N2O emissions by country, thousand tonnes (Gg) of nitrous oxide. 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.Citation styles
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European Commission, Joint Research Centre. (2026). EDGAR N2O emissions by country, thousand tonnes (Gg) of nitrous oxide (EU countries by nitrous oxide emissions, 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/EDGAR/datasets/EDGAR_2026_GHG/
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EDGAR N2O emissions by country, thousand tonnes (Gg) of nitrous oxide, EU countries by nitrous oxide emissions, 2025. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 18 Sept. 2026, https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/EDGAR/datasets/EDGAR_2026_GHG/. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/nitrous-oxide-emissions/eu-countries. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.
Chicago (author-date)
European Commission, Joint Research Centre. 2026. EDGAR N2O emissions by country, thousand tonnes (Gg) of nitrous oxide. EU countries by nitrous oxide emissions, 2025. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/EDGAR/datasets/EDGAR_2026_GHG/. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/nitrous-oxide-emissions/eu-countries.
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European Commission, Joint Research Centre (2026) EDGAR N2O emissions by country, thousand tonnes (Gg) of nitrous oxide, EU countries by nitrous oxide emissions, 2025 [Dataset]. Available at: https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/EDGAR/datasets/EDGAR_2026_GHG/, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/nitrous-oxide-emissions/eu-countries (Accessed: 12 October 2026).
BibTeX
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Which EU country has the highest nitrous oxide emissions?
France, with 119.67 thousand tonnes of nitrous oxide in 2025, according to the European Commission, Joint Research Centre.
Which EU country has the lowest nitrous oxide emissions?
Malta, with 0.19 thousand tonnes of nitrous oxide in 2025.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: European Commission, Joint Research Centre, EDGAR N2O emissions by country, thousand tonnes (Gg) of nitrous oxide. Retrieved 2026-10-12.