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Agricultural Emissions, 1998

1998, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agricultural Emissions, 1998 covers 192 countries on 3 measures. China is highest, at 841,582.082; 7 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 7,090.731. Against 1997, 181 values changed (108 up, 73 down), the same countries are covered.

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Agricultural Emissions · Data for 1998

HighestChina

841,582.082

Lowest7 countries share it

0.000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Agricultural Emissions, 1998, as published. FAO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 192 countries · select a heading to sort

Agricultural Emissions, 1998: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia841,582.08214,911.88571,030.0288
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia751,449.47218,372.2146546.8695
3United StatesUSANorthern America474,464.6768,123.1341576.0159
4BrazilBRASouth America409,796.22710,496.6267378.3130
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia328,934.6403,436.0112134.1367
6RussiaRUSEastern Europe234,803.1793,235.0957160.8799
7AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand175,822.3713,755.5327231.4426
8ArgentinaARGSouth America131,067.3503,086.7437119.0714
9PakistanPAKSouthern Asia115,114.9332,930.8747111.0026
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe109,124.4711,576.8974113.4306
11CanadaCANNorthern America108,957.2701,110.2030109.5485
12FranceFRAWestern Europe103,684.2261,847.9624126.6777
13MexicoMEXCentral America101,567.9832,172.3239114.0960
14BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia95,227.3322,135.229159.3038
15United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe94,616.8021,359.597195.0564
16PolandPOLEastern Europe90,931.568753.877367.5946
17UkraineUKREastern Europe82,332.4181,213.327062.2964
18ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia75,034.5801,988.363747.5935
19BelarusBLREastern Europe71,995.851432.226848.8209
20VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia69,781.3831,802.212952.2425
21EthiopiaETHEastern Africa68,916.0391,504.753779.5662
22MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia68,777.0461,597.219435.4264
23ColombiaCOLSouth America65,376.6171,744.612755.9328
24IranIRNSouthern Asia60,673.520990.764562.3134
25JapanJPNEastern Asia52,818.163695.073136.2789

02In 1998

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1China841,582.082
  2. 2India751,449.472
  3. 3United States474,464.676
  4. 4Brazil409,796.227
  5. 5Indonesia328,934.640

Lowest

  1. 186San Marinoshared0.000
  2. 186Palaushared0.000
  3. 186Marshall Islandsshared0.000
  4. 186Monacoshared0.000
  5. 186Liechtensteinshared0.000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7,090.731. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Methane (kt CH₄)

    HighestIndia18,372.2146

    Lowest7 share it

    Middle country: 118.3100

  • Nitrous oxide (kt N₂O)

    HighestChina1,030.0288

    Lowest8 share it

    Middle country: 6.6705

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 181values changed, of 192 in both
  • 108 · 73rose · fell
  • 11unchanged

Rose most

  • China815,947.173 → 841,582.082+25,634.909
  • India740,097.281 → 751,449.472+11,352.191
  • Brazil399,464.716 → 409,796.227+10,331.511
  • Australia169,221.317 → 175,822.371+6,601.054
  • Ethiopia63,344.895 → 68,916.039+5,571.144

Fell most

  • Russia251,879.935 → 234,803.179−17,076.756
  • Ukraine90,419.630 → 82,332.418−8,087.212
  • Philippines57,162.301 → 50,228.716−6,933.585
  • United States480,330.568 → 474,464.676−5,865.892
  • Poland95,312.070 → 90,931.568−4,380.502

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1998.

  • 186 distinct values among 192

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 7 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    FAO publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 192 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (1998). Agricultural Emissions, 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-emissions/1998

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07Questions

Agricultural Emissions, 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest agricultural emissions in Agricultural Emissions, 1998?

China, at 841,582.082, of the 192 countries in the file.

What year does Agricultural Emissions, 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Agricultural Emissions, 1998 cover?

192.

Where can I download Agricultural Emissions, 1998?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Agricultural Emissions, 1998 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Agricultural Emissions, 2023.

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