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Methane Emissions, 2025

2025, 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, 2025 covers 207 countries. China is highest, at 51,093.377; Niue is lowest, at 0.048. The middle country reads 325.692. Against 2024, 207 values changed (137 up, 70 down), the same countries are covered.

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Methane Emissions · Data for 2025

HighestChina

51,093.377

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, 2025, 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, 2025: every country, as published by European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EDGAR).
ChinaCHNEastern Asia51,093.377
IndiaINDSouthern Asia31,300.606
United StatesUSANorthern America29,362.291
BrazilBRASouth America21,983.497
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia14,716.726
RussiaRUSEastern Europe14,613.596
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia9,197.774
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa6,225.217
IranIRNSouthern Asia5,516.235
IraqIRQWestern Asia5,189.567
MexicoMEXCentral America5,136.158
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand5,027.935
ArgentinaARGSouth America4,731.511
CanadaCANNorthern America4,538.334
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa4,464.383
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia4,227.982
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia4,052.777
ColombiaCOLSouth America3,160.653
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa2,994.810
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia2,828.616
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia2,826.119
ChadTCDMiddle Africa2,706.595
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2,632.548
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia2,615.941
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia2,551.560

02In 2025

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. China51,093.377
  2. India31,300.606
  3. United States29,362.291
  4. Brazil21,983.497
  5. Indonesia14,716.726

Lowest

  1. Niue0.048
  2. Nauru0.061
  3. Marshall Islands0.115
  4. Anguilla0.140
  5. Tuvalu0.158

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 325.692. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032024 → 2025

Since 2024

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 207values changed, of 207 in both
  • 137 · 70rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Brazil22,769.001 → 21,983.497−785.504
  • Indonesia15,161.225 → 14,716.726−444.498
  • Ukraine2,121.634 → 2,007.758−113.876
  • Russia14,700.158 → 14,613.596−86.562
  • Italy1,651.247 → 1,594.956−56.290

04Caveats

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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 2025.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 207 countries has every column.

05The files

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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) (2025). Methane Emissions, 2025 [data set], describing 2025. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/methane-emissions/2025

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