Agricultural methane emissions (% of total) - Emissions - Environment - World Development Indicators

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Agricultural methane emissions are emissions from animals, animal waste, rice production, agricultural waste burning (nonenergy, on-site), and savannah burning.

Rank	Country	Value
Agricultural methane emissions (% of total) - Emissions - Environment - World Development Indicators (2005)
1	Uruguay	90.28
2	Namibia	89.91
3	Mongolia	83.88
4	New Zealand	82.28
5	Nepal	80.49
6	Nicaragua	80.16
7	Eritrea	77.59
8	Ethiopia	77.21
9	Thailand	76.08
10	Senegal	75.87
11	Sudan	73.26
12	Panama	72.37
13	Kyrgyzstan	72.16
14	Honduras	71.93
15	Botswana	71.88
16	Cambodia	71.46
17	France	71.09
18	Paraguay	70.93
19	Albania	70.05
20	Burma	69.97
21	Bangladesh	69.16
22	Zambia	68.63
23	Tajikistan	68.50
24	Switzerland	67.95
25	Denmark	67.68
26	Brazil	67.11
27	Least developed countries: UN classification	66.80
28	Vietnam	66.77
29	Philippines	66.70
30	Pakistan	66.34
31	South Asia	65.96
32	Kenya	64.99
33	India	64.82
34	Mozambique	64.30
35	Argentina	63.86
36	Tanzania	63.53
37	Low income	62.70
38	Cuba	62.38
39	Dominican Republic	62.08
40	Sri Lanka	61.77
41	Australia	61.53
42	Haiti	61.23
43	Zimbabwe	60.38
44	Belgium	59.66
45	Turkey	59.51
46	Costa Rica	57.96
47	Latin America & Caribbean	57.95
48	Ecuador	57.41
49	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	56.83
50	Cameroon	55.99
51	Colombia	55.15
52	Iceland	54.55
53	Portugal	52.94
54	East Asia & Pacific	51.91
55	Lower middle income	51.79
56	Georgia	51.73
57	Cyprus	51.52
58	Armenia	50.87
59	United Kingdom	50.71
60	Austria	50.07
61	China	50
62	Ghana	49.59
63	Sub-Saharan Africa	49.37
64	Netherlands	49.21
65	Togo	48.59
66	Low & middle income	48.32
67	El Salvador	48.13
68	Peru	48.07
69	Slovenia	47.85
70	Benin	47.52
71	Jamaica	47.41
72	Euro area	46.93
73	Middle income	46.59
74	Azerbaijan	45.37
75	Egypt	44.17
76	Spain	44.15
77	Guatemala	42.71
78	Morocco	41.62
79	Sweden	41.49
80	Indonesia	41.20
81	Malta	40
82	Mexico	39.58
83	Germany	39.17
84	Greece	39.14
85	Angola	39.11
86	Belarus	38.81
87	Lithuania	38.08
88	Kazakhstan	37.92
89	Italy	37.74
90	Upper middle income	37.66
91	Israel	36.75
92	Estonia	34.96
93	Syria	34.67
94	Bolivia	34.48
95	Tunisia	34.17
96	Nigeria	33.72
97	Venezuela	33.58
98	Bulgaria	32.74
99	Bosnia and Herzegovina	32.63
100	Ireland	31.97
101	South Korea	31.07
102	North Korea	31.07
103	Moldova	30.89
104	Finland	30.35
105	Romania	30.14
106	Chile	29.91
107	Croatia	29.81
108	Latvia	29.26
109	High income: OECD	29.15
110	Yemen	27.65
111	High income	26.95
112	Republic of the Congo	26.33
113	Middle East & North Africa	25.92
114	Jordan	24.22
115	South Africa	23.82
116	Uzbekistan	23.21
117	Malaysia	22.30
118	Canada	22.16
119	Iran	21.79
120	Ivory Coast	20.56
121	Slovakia	19.47
122	United States	18.38
123	Lebanon	18.37
124	Poland	18.36
125	Hungary	18.28
126	Czech Republic	17.21
127	Europe & Central Asia	16.14
128	Ukraine	15.71
129	Algeria	15.30
130	Turkmenistan	15.22
131	Iraq	14.66
132	Norway	14.32
133	Japan	13.43
134	Oman	12.91
135	Democratic Republic of the Congo	11.83
136	Netherlands Antilles	9.09
137	Libya	8.90
138	Russia	7.92
139	Singapore	4.76
140	Gabon	4.41
141	High income: nonOECD	4.05
142	Saudi Arabia	1.94
143	United Arab Emirates	1.72
144	Qatar	1.54
145	Kuwait	1.52
146	Trinidad and Tobago	1.05
147	Brunei Darussalam	0.97
148	Hong Kong	0.92
149	Bahrain	0.51
150	Luxembourg	0

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Agricultural methane emissions (% of total) - Emissions - Environment - World Development Indicators

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