New Zealand - Total Methane Emissions

Thousand Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent - 1990 to 2019

Since 2014, New Zealand Total Methane Emissions was up 3.3% year on year. In 2019, the country was number 20 comparing other countries in Total Methane Emissions at 79.82 Thousand Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent. New Zealand is overtaken by Kazakhstan, which was ranked number 19 with 98.4 Thousand Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent and is followed by Japan at 78.19 Thousand Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent. Russia ranked the highest with 28,678.87 Thousand Metric Tons of CO2 Equivalent in 2019, a decrease of 4.6% versus 2018. Australia, United States and Iceland respectively ranked number 2, 3 and 4 in this ranking. Croatia witnessed the best average annual growth at +122% per year, while Lithuania recorded the worst performance at -35.6% per year.