Dataset · EDGAR
Methane Emissions
56 years, 1970–2025 · 207 countries
This is how much methane a country releases in a year — from cattle and other livestock, rice paddies, leaks from oil and gas systems, coal mines, landfills and waste water. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide: it lasts less long in the air but traps far more heat per tonne.
This site holds every year from 1970 to 2025, read from EDGAR’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Methane Emissions · the file
- Newest
- Methane Emissions, 2025
- Held
- 56 years · 11,592 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0156 years
Every year
Every year comes from EDGAR’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Methane Emissions, 2025Newest | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Methane Emissions, 2024 | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Methane Emissions, 2023 | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Methane Emissions, 2022 | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Methane Emissions, 2021 | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Methane Emissions, 2020 | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Methane Emissions, 2019 | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Methane Emissions, 2018 | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Methane Emissions, 2017 | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Methane Emissions, 2016 | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Methane Emissions, 2015 | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Methane Emissions, 2014 | 207 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 56 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: methane-emissions-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 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, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 207 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 207 | 0 | |
Methane emissions (gigagrams of CH₄)methaneHeadline | The headline figure: Methane emissions (gigagrams of CH₄). | Number · up to 15 decimals | 0.048 Niue51,093.377 Chinamiddle 325.692 | 207 | 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. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03207 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.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 |
| Americas | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 |
| 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 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 |
| All | 207 | 207 | 207 | 207 | 207 | 207 | 207 | 207 | 207 | 207 | 207 | 207 |
The newest 12 of 56 years.
The same 207 countries in every year.
Not in this dataset · 18 places this site covers
EDGAR 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
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EDGAR)
2 · Their file
Methane Emissions 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
56 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as methane-emissions-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 15 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.
From the European Commission Joint Research Centre's own EDGAR database, in gigagrams (thousand tonnes) of methane rather than carbon-dioxide equivalent.
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 September 29, 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: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EDGAR), Methane Emissions, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EDGAR). Methane Emissions, 1970–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/methane-emissions
The publisher’s own citation: EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG Database, version EDGAR_2026_GHG (2026), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Crippa, M., Guizzardi, D., Pagani, F., Banja, M., Ciarlantini, S., et al. (2026). GHG emissions of all world countries – 2026 Report. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. doi:10.2760/7717504.
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
Methane Emissions 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
Methane Emissions: questions and answers
What is the Methane Emissions?
This is how much methane a country releases in a year — from cattle and other livestock, rice paddies, leaks from oil and gas systems, coal mines, landfills and waste water. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide: it lasts less long in the air but traps far more heat per tonne.
Which years of the Methane Emissions can I download?
All 56, from 1970 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does EDGAR rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to EDGAR. The licence text is linked on this page.