# EU countries by nitrous oxide emissions, 2025

All 27 values come from European Commission, Joint Research Centre for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `n2o_emissions`
- Unit: thousand tonnes of nitrous oxide
- Definition: 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.
- Source: 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/)
- 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 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/nitrous-oxide-emissions/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | thousand tonnes of nitrous oxide |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | France | 119.67 |
| 2 | Germany | 115.2 |
| 3 | Poland | 88.87 |
| 4 | Spain | 72.21 |
| 5 | Italy | 56.23 |
| 6 | Romania | 31.29 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 31.06 |
| 8 | Ireland | 30.16 |
| 9 | Sweden | 22.31 |
| 10 | Czechia | 20.54 |
| 11 | Finland | 20.24 |
| 12 | Belgium | 18.16 |
| 13 | Denmark | 17.19 |
| 14 | Hungary | 16.71 |
| 15 | Lithuania | 16.03 |
| 16 | Bulgaria | 14.28 |
| 17 | Austria | 12.63 |
| 18 | Greece | 12.52 |
| 19 | Portugal | 11.53 |
| 20 | Latvia | 8.12 |
| 21 | Slovakia | 6.89 |
| 22 | Croatia | 6.51 |
| 23 | Estonia | 6.5 |
| 24 | Slovenia | 2.82 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 1.15 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 0.88 |
| 27 | Malta | 0.19 |