Dataset · FAO
Agricultural Emissions Intensity
34 years, 1990–2023 · 190 countries · 3 measures
This is how much greenhouse gas a country's farming emits for each dollar's worth of crops and livestock it produces — methane from cattle and rice paddies, nitrous oxide from soils and manure, and the burning of crop residues and savanna — as estimated by FAO. Because it is per dollar of output, it compares how emissions-heavy farming systems are, whatever their size.
This site holds every year from 1990 to 2023, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Agricultural Emissions Intensity · the file
- Newest
- Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2023
- Held
- 34 years · 6,254 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0134 years
Every year
Every year comes from FAO’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2023Newest | 190 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2022 | 190 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2021 | 190 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2020 | 190 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2019 | 190 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2018 | 190 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2017 | 190 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2016 | 190 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2015 | 190 | −1 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2014 | 191 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2013 | 191 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 2012 | 191 | +2 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 34 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: agricultural-emissions-intensity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 190 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 190 | 0 | |
Farming emissions per value of agricultural output (kg CO₂eq per international dollar)emissions_intensityHeadline | The headline figure: Greenhouse gases from farming per value of agricultural output (kg CO₂eq per international dollar). | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.00 | 156 | 0 | |
Farming emissions per hectare of agricultural land (t CO₂eq)per_hectareMeasure | The same farming emissions per hectare of agricultural land, in tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent, as FAO computes it. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.00 | 153 | 1 | |
Farming emissions per person (t CO₂eq)per_personMeasure | The same farming emissions per person in the country, in tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent, as FAO computes it. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.004 share it9.53 | 115 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.
03191 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 |
| Asia | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| Oceania | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| All | 191 | 191 | 191 | 190 | 190 | 190 | 190 | 190 | 190 | 190 | 190 | 190 |
The newest 12 of 34 years.
Who joined and who left
Not in this dataset · 34 places this site covers
FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2 · Their file
Agricultural Emissions Intensity 2023
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
34 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as agricultural-emissions-intensity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
FAOSTAT's Emissions Indicators domain, read from FAO's own bulk download. FAO computes the ratio from its own emissions estimates and its value of agricultural production; emissions per hectare of farmland and per person are stored beside it.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked October 3, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Agricultural Emissions Intensity, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Agricultural Emissions Intensity, 1990–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-emissions-intensity
The publisher’s own citation: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Emissions Indicators. Accessed on 3 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/EM Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Agricultural Emissions Intensity by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- CO₂ Emissions per CapitaGlobal Carbon Project · 75 held · 1950–2024
- Ecological FootprintGlobal Footprint Network · 65 held · 1961–2025
- Water StressFAO · 24 held · 2000–2023
07Questions
Agricultural Emissions Intensity: questions and answers
What is the Agricultural Emissions Intensity?
This is how much greenhouse gas a country's farming emits for each dollar's worth of crops and livestock it produces — methane from cattle and rice paddies, nitrous oxide from soils and manure, and the burning of crop residues and savanna — as estimated by FAO. Because it is per dollar of output, it compares how emissions-heavy farming systems are, whatever their size.
Which years of the Agricultural Emissions Intensity can I download?
All 34, from 1990 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does FAO rank countries on it?
No. FAO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to FAO. The licence text is linked on this page.