Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2012

Agricultural Emissions, 2012

2012, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agricultural Emissions, 2012 covers 198 countries on 3 measures. China is highest, at 878,103.5; 6 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0. The middle country reads 8,705.6. Against 2011, 188 values changed (119 up, 69 down), 2 countries joined.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Agricultural Emissions · Data for 2012

HighestChina

878,103.5

Lowest6 countries share it

0.0

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, 2012, 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 198 countries · select a heading to sort

Agricultural Emissions, 2012: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1ChinaCHNEastern Asia878,103.513,870.43101,202.5968
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia873,784.019,544.4629708.7103
3BrazilBRASouth America536,704.013,392.4197526.9375
4United StatesUSANorthern America485,099.77,745.9604588.2528
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia386,054.03,626.6582182.4934
6AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand232,960.94,727.1003338.3147
7RussiaRUSEastern Europe188,859.72,255.9968151.7507
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia167,740.14,348.1586161.0389
9ArgentinaARGSouth America139,236.93,178.4683134.1821
10CanadaCANNorthern America118,752.6999.5162130.0047
11MexicoMEXCentral America108,911.32,237.4431120.2106
12EthiopiaETHEastern Africa106,830.32,396.0044126.8081
13BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia106,253.72,343.055170.8764
14GermanyDEUWestern Europe103,736.11,366.5080103.2944
15ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia97,453.52,368.570168.0362
16FranceFRAWestern Europe94,795.41,716.5962112.0627
17MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia90,727.42,231.721152.0688
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe81,615.71,086.556378.6707
19PolandPOLEastern Europe78,193.5593.898968.3018
20VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia77,604.01,983.159960.8153
21SudanSDNNorthern Africa75,643.41,847.063388.9165
22IranIRNSouthern Asia72,503.9879.289360.5356
23BelarusBLREastern Europe71,355.3374.405554.4895
24NigeriaNGAWestern Africa69,451.91,643.196288.4137
25ColombiaCOLSouth America66,042.71,623.216457.7374

02In 2012

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1China878,103.5
  2. 2India873,784.0
  3. 3Brazil536,704.0
  4. 4United States485,099.7
  5. 5Indonesia386,054.0

Lowest

  1. 193San Marinoshared0.0
  2. 193Marshall Islandsshared0.0
  3. 193Monacoshared0.0
  4. 193Liechtensteinshared0.0
  5. 193Channel Islandsshared0.0

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 8,705.6. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Methane (kt CH₄)

    HighestIndia19,544.4629

    Lowest7 share it

    Middle country: 134.6848

  • Nitrous oxide (kt N₂O)

    HighestChina1,202.5968

    Lowest6 share it

    Middle country: 8.7396

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 188values changed, of 196 in both
  • 119 · 69rose · fell
  • 8unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Sudan+ South Sudan

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 2012.

  • 193 distinct values among 198

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 6 countries share 0.0. 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 198 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) (2012). Agricultural Emissions, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agricultural-emissions/2012

0634 held

Other years

07Questions

Agricultural Emissions, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest agricultural emissions in Agricultural Emissions, 2012?

China, at 878,103.5, of the 198 countries in the file.

What year does Agricultural Emissions, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Agricultural Emissions, 2012 cover?

198.

Where can I download Agricultural Emissions, 2012?

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, 2012 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.