Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2024

Methane Emissions, 2024

2024, as EDGAR’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

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.

Methane Emissions, 2024 covers 207 countries. China is highest, at 50,885.866; Niue is lowest, at 0.048. The middle country reads 322.902. Against 2023, 207 values changed (123 up, 84 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Methane Emissions · Data for 2024

HighestChina

50,885.866

LowestNiue

0.048

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

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Methane Emissions, 2024, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 207 countries · select a heading to sort

Methane Emissions, 2024: every country, as published by European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EDGAR).
ChinaCHNEastern Asia50,885.866
IndiaINDSouthern Asia31,030.408
United StatesUSANorthern America28,997.768
BrazilBRASouth America22,769.001
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia15,161.225
RussiaRUSEastern Europe14,700.158
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia9,046.364
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa6,036.574
IranIRNSouthern Asia5,395.945
IraqIRQWestern Asia5,091.601
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand5,073.054
MexicoMEXCentral America4,972.774
ArgentinaARGSouth America4,708.278
CanadaCANNorthern America4,404.816
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa4,396.658
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia4,225.297
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia3,861.961
ColombiaCOLSouth America3,210.529
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa2,994.894
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia2,810.058
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia2,776.954
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2,608.299
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia2,608.061
ChadTCDMiddle Africa2,602.180
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia2,560.876

02In 2024

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. China50,885.866
  2. India31,030.408
  3. United States28,997.768
  4. Brazil22,769.001
  5. Indonesia15,161.225

Lowest

  1. Niue0.048
  2. Nauru0.061
  3. Marshall Islands0.115
  4. Anguilla0.139
  5. Tuvalu0.157

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 322.902. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032023 → 2024

Since 2023

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 207values changed, of 207 in both
  • 123 · 84rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • India30,000.933 → 31,030.408+1,029.475
  • Indonesia14,638.946 → 15,161.225+522.278
  • Iran5,088.711 → 5,395.945+307.234
  • Pakistan8,762.845 → 9,046.364+283.518
  • Mongolia2,006.278 → 2,239.488+233.209

Fell most

  • China51,297.456 → 50,885.866−411.591
  • United States29,184.576 → 28,997.768−186.808
  • Argentina4,766.323 → 4,708.278−58.045
  • Egypt2,049.415 → 2,001.243−48.171
  • Germany1,943.538 → 1,897.572−45.966

04Caveats

Read before you use

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from EDGAR’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2024.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 207 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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

Cite this edition

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EDGAR) (2024). Methane Emissions, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/methane-emissions/2024

0656 held

Other years