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On-farm methane and nitrous oxide from animals, manure, fertiliser and rice fields, by farm product (14 products)

Methane and nitrous oxide emitted on farms each year since 1961 in producing each of 14 farm products, for the world and each country, in carbon dioxide equivalent, as allocated by FAO. Counts only emissions on the farm from: methane from animals' digestion (enteric fermentation) and from manure management; nitrous oxide from manure management, from manure applied to soils and from manure left on pasture; and, for rice and other cereals, nitrous oxide from crop residues and from synthetic fertiliser, methane and nitrous oxide from burning crop residues, plus methane from flooded rice paddies. Not counted: energy used on farms, drained organic (peat) soils, savanna fires, clearing land (land-use change), and everything before and after the farm (making fertiliser and feed, processing, packaging, transport, retail, cooking and waste). Only 14 products: meat of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens; raw milk of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats and camels; hen eggs; rice; and other cereals together. Soy, palm oil, fruit, vegetables, sugar, pulses, fish and other farm animals are not covered, so the products do not add up to food's emissions. These are farm-gate values, not life-cycle footprints: FAO says they should not be compared with life-cycle assessment figures. FAO's split of sheep, goat, buffalo and camel emissions between meat and milk makes 75 meat values negative in the February 2026 release, all goat, buffalo or sheep meat and most of them in Mali and Bhutan, down to about -6.3 million tonnes for goat meat in Mali in 2011. They are published as printed.

Latest value

2,113.7Mt CO₂e

Countries and territories, and the world, 2023. Version 2026-02-20.

On-farm methane and nitrous oxide from animals, manure, fertiliser and rice fields, by farm product (14 products) (million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent)

882 values from 1961 to 2023. Lines: Beef, Rice, Cow's milk, Cereals other than rice, Buffalo meat.
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On-farm methane and nitrous oxide from animals, manure, fertiliser and rice fields, by farm product (14 products), every value
PeriodFarm productValue (Mt CO₂e)Status
1961Beef1,241.1final
1962Beef1,272.1final
1963Beef1,295.2final
1964Beef1,323.4final
1965Beef1,361.1final
1966Beef1,390.2final
1967Beef1,429.6final
1968Beef1,452.8final
1969Beef1,459.6final
1970Beef1,484.1final
1971Beef1,511.1final
1972Beef1,553.8final
1973Beef1,594.6final
1974Beef1,645.6final
1975Beef1,680.2final
1976Beef1,697.7final
1977Beef1,698.9final
1978Beef1,688.9final
1979Beef1,685.0final
1980Beef1,699.0final
1981Beef1,713.2final
1982Beef1,731.3final
1983Beef1,738.4final
1984Beef1,754.1final
1985Beef1,761.9final
1986Beef1,767.3final
1987Beef1,766.9final
1988Beef1,774.7final
1989Beef1,800.3final
1990Beef1,811.2final
1991Beef1,817.7final
1992Beef1,822.7final
1993Beef1,824.6final
1994Beef1,840.1final
1995Beef1,852.4final
1996Beef1,859.6final
1997Beef1,820.1final
1998Beef1,817.5final
1999Beef1,818.4final
2000Beef1,828.0final
2001Beef1,826.7final
2002Beef1,846.7final
2003Beef1,862.1final
2004Beef1,878.9final
2005Beef1,894.3final
2006Beef1,907.5final
2007Beef1,908.6final
2008Beef1,923.8final
2009Beef1,901.3final
2010Beef1,896.3final
2011Beef1,897.0final
2012Beef1,905.7final
2013Beef1,910.6final
2014Beef1,919.7final
2015Beef1,943.9final
2016Beef1,967.3final
2017Beef1,986.4final
2018Beef1,999.4final
2019Beef2,020.5final
2020Beef2,042.0final
2021Beef2,062.1final
2022Beef2,089.7final
2023Beef2,113.7final
1961Rice513.7final
1962Rice532.3final
1963Rice533.6final
1964Rice555.7final
1965Rice554.6final
1966Rice562.9final
1967Rice568.8final
1968Rice578.4final
1969Rice584.7final
1970Rice593.1final
1971Rice603.5final
1972Rice593.2final
1973Rice613.8final
1974Rice617.7final
1975Rice636.5final
1976Rice635.0final
1977Rice642.2final
1978Rice643.9final
1979Rice633.9final
1980Rice647.1final
1981Rice650.4final
1982Rice636.3final
1983Rice638.8final
1984Rice648.0final
1985Rice646.6final
1986Rice647.0final
1987Rice634.6final
1988Rice655.8final
1989Rice669.4final
1990Rice663.3final
1991Rice660.4final
1992Rice665.6final
1993Rice659.9final
1994Rice666.7final
1995Rice678.7final
1996Rice686.6final
1997Rice690.9final
1998Rice687.7final
1999Rice714.9final
2000Rice699.7final
2001Rice691.1final
2002Rice675.2final
2003Rice675.2final
2004Rice689.8final
2005Rice705.6final
2006Rice707.8final
2007Rice707.8final
2008Rice726.6final
2009Rice721.1final
2010Rice735.3final
2011Rice738.9final
2012Rice736.5final
2013Rice743.5final
2014Rice739.4final
2015Rice730.3final
2016Rice734.2final
2017Rice737.1final
2018Rice742.2final
2019Rice727.9final
2020Rice746.4final
2021Rice750.1final
2022Rice747.6final
2023Rice751.7final
1961Cow's milk623.3final
1962Cow's milk621.5final
1963Cow's milk621.4final
1964Cow's milk615.7final
1965Cow's milk616.4final
1966Cow's milk629.6final
1967Cow's milk629.4final
1968Cow's milk633.0final
1969Cow's milk632.8final
1970Cow's milk623.2final
1971Cow's milk625.5final
1972Cow's milk631.5final
1973Cow's milk631.0final
1974Cow's milk638.4final
1975Cow's milk645.6final
1976Cow's milk650.2final
1977Cow's milk657.1final
1978Cow's milk662.5final
1979Cow's milk671.0final
1980Cow's milk678.5final
1981Cow's milk682.3final
1982Cow's milk686.2final
1983Cow's milk691.7final
1984Cow's milk691.8final
1985Cow's milk690.6final
1986Cow's milk694.1final
1987Cow's milk687.4final
1988Cow's milk682.8final
1989Cow's milk684.3final
1990Cow's milk683.4final
1991Cow's milk674.9final
1992Cow's milk657.1final
1993Cow's milk649.9final
1994Cow's milk654.7final
1995Cow's milk651.3final
1996Cow's milk643.4final
1997Cow's milk638.6final
1998Cow's milk634.6final
1999Cow's milk633.5final
2000Cow's milk629.7final
2001Cow's milk633.0final
2002Cow's milk636.6final
2003Cow's milk648.4final
2004Cow's milk653.7final
2005Cow's milk656.0final
2006Cow's milk664.2final
2007Cow's milk676.2final
2008Cow's milk681.9final
2009Cow's milk695.6final
2010Cow's milk698.5final
2011Cow's milk702.4final
2012Cow's milk712.9final
2013Cow's milk714.5final
2014Cow's milk722.8final
2015Cow's milk713.4final
2016Cow's milk720.4final
2017Cow's milk712.4final
2018Cow's milk705.8final
2019Cow's milk707.4final
2020Cow's milk720.7final
2021Cow's milk728.0final
2022Cow's milk730.2final
2023Cow's milk741.4final
1961Cereals other than rice88.2final
1962Cereals other than rice94.0final
1963Cereals other than rice97.8final
1964Cereals other than rice104.5final
1965Cereals other than rice110.0final
1966Cereals other than rice121.3final
1967Cereals other than rice127.3final
1968Cereals other than rice134.3final
1969Cereals other than rice138.8final
1970Cereals other than rice145.8final
1971Cereals other than rice156.3final
1972Cereals other than rice160.0final
1973Cereals other than rice171.0final
1974Cereals other than rice169.3final
1975Cereals other than rice181.8final
1976Cereals other than rice191.8final
1977Cereals other than rice198.7final
1978Cereals other than rice215.3final
1979Cereals other than rice219.5final
1980Cereals other than rice228.4final
1981Cereals other than rice232.0final
1982Cereals other than rice236.3final
1983Cereals other than rice243.0final
1984Cereals other than rice259.7final
1985Cereals other than rice261.0final
1986Cereals other than rice266.3final
1987Cereals other than rice269.9final
1988Cereals other than rice275.5final
1989Cereals other than rice279.5final
1990Cereals other than rice280.1final
1991Cereals other than rice273.0final
1992Cereals other than rice273.2final
1993Cereals other than rice265.9final
1994Cereals other than rice268.8final
1995Cereals other than rice277.0final
1996Cereals other than rice294.8final
1997Cereals other than rice293.4final
1998Cereals other than rice294.0final
1999Cereals other than rice296.4final
2000Cereals other than rice287.4final
2001Cereals other than rice291.7final
2002Cereals other than rice296.1final
2003Cereals other than rice302.3final
2004Cereals other than rice317.3final
2005Cereals other than rice317.2final
2006Cereals other than rice322.4final
2007Cereals other than rice334.0final
2008Cereals other than rice338.5final
2009Cereals other than rice342.3final
2010Cereals other than rice349.0final
2011Cereals other than rice363.4final
2012Cereals other than rice362.4final
2013Cereals other than rice376.1final
2014Cereals other than rice380.9final
2015Cereals other than rice379.7final
2016Cereals other than rice385.2final
2017Cereals other than rice392.4final
2018Cereals other than rice385.4final
2019Cereals other than rice388.3final
2020Cereals other than rice404.4final
2021Cereals other than rice403.5final
2022Cereals other than rice395.7final
2023Cereals other than rice402.6final
1961Buffalo meat134.9final
1962Buffalo meat136.3final
1963Buffalo meat136.8final
1964Buffalo meat143.6final
1965Buffalo meat145.0final
1966Buffalo meat153.9final
1967Buffalo meat159.2final
1968Buffalo meat164.0final
1969Buffalo meat167.1final
1970Buffalo meat168.3final
1971Buffalo meat168.1final
1972Buffalo meat169.3final
1973Buffalo meat171.7final
1974Buffalo meat174.9final
1975Buffalo meat174.1final
1976Buffalo meat173.5final
1977Buffalo meat173.6final
1978Buffalo meat178.6final
1979Buffalo meat180.4final
1980Buffalo meat182.7final
1981Buffalo meat185.9final
1982Buffalo meat191.5final
1983Buffalo meat195.2final
1984Buffalo meat197.2final
1985Buffalo meat201.0final
1986Buffalo meat207.9final
1987Buffalo meat206.8final
1988Buffalo meat208.1final
1989Buffalo meat208.1final
1990Buffalo meat212.0final
1991Buffalo meat209.5final
1992Buffalo meat218.5final
1993Buffalo meat220.6final
1994Buffalo meat223.0final
1995Buffalo meat225.5final
1996Buffalo meat224.1final
1997Buffalo meat218.5final
1998Buffalo meat222.4final
1999Buffalo meat225.5final
2000Buffalo meat228.1final
2001Buffalo meat229.0final
2002Buffalo meat232.2final
2003Buffalo meat236.7final
2004Buffalo meat238.7final
2005Buffalo meat241.6final
2006Buffalo meat246.9final
2007Buffalo meat250.2final
2008Buffalo meat252.2final
2009Buffalo meat266.5final
2010Buffalo meat263.3final
2011Buffalo meat262.4final
2012Buffalo meat262.8final
2013Buffalo meat261.6final
2014Buffalo meat262.5final
2015Buffalo meat261.0final
2016Buffalo meat260.1final
2017Buffalo meat258.9final
2018Buffalo meat254.1final
2019Buffalo meat251.7final
2020Buffalo meat257.2final
2021Buffalo meat260.2final
2022Buffalo meat262.1final
2023Buffalo meat260.3final
1961Lamb and mutton242.0final
1962Lamb and mutton243.8final
1963Lamb and mutton244.0final
1964Lamb and mutton246.8final
1965Lamb and mutton250.5final
1966Lamb and mutton251.5final
1967Lamb and mutton256.5final
1968Lamb and mutton259.8final
1969Lamb and mutton262.3final
1970Lamb and mutton257.6final
1971Lamb and mutton258.9final
1972Lamb and mutton251.2final
1973Lamb and mutton242.9final
1974Lamb and mutton245.7final
1975Lamb and mutton250.0final
1976Lamb and mutton248.3final
1977Lamb and mutton242.9final
1978Lamb and mutton244.9final
1979Lamb and mutton249.0final
1980Lamb and mutton255.3final
1981Lamb and mutton257.4final
1982Lamb and mutton262.1final
1983Lamb and mutton259.7final
1984Lamb and mutton261.0final
1985Lamb and mutton261.5final
1986Lamb and mutton263.9final
1987Lamb and mutton267.0final
1988Lamb and mutton271.4final
1989Lamb and mutton279.1final
1990Lamb and mutton279.5final
1991Lamb and mutton272.9final
1992Lamb and mutton257.2final
1993Lamb and mutton245.3final
1994Lamb and mutton239.7final
1995Lamb and mutton229.0final
1996Lamb and mutton223.6final
1997Lamb and mutton218.4final
1998Lamb and mutton218.1final
1999Lamb and mutton219.2final
2000Lamb and mutton219.4final
2001Lamb and mutton212.7final
2002Lamb and mutton210.6final
2003Lamb and mutton212.9final
2004Lamb and mutton219.2final
2005Lamb and mutton224.5final
2006Lamb and mutton223.9final
2007Lamb and mutton224.2final
2008Lamb and mutton220.2final
2009Lamb and mutton216.3final
2010Lamb and mutton208.1final
2011Lamb and mutton212.1final
2012Lamb and mutton217.3final
2013Lamb and mutton226.0final
2014Lamb and mutton224.5final
2015Lamb and mutton230.5final
2016Lamb and mutton232.2final
2017Lamb and mutton235.1final
2018Lamb and mutton235.0final
2019Lamb and mutton238.1final
2020Lamb and mutton245.1final
2021Lamb and mutton251.7final
2022Lamb and mutton256.5final
2023Lamb and mutton256.1final
1961Goat meat64.7final
1962Goat meat68.4final
1963Goat meat70.0final
1964Goat meat69.5final
1965Goat meat69.0final
1966Goat meat69.5final
1967Goat meat69.8final
1968Goat meat70.9final
1969Goat meat71.0final
1970Goat meat70.9final
1971Goat meat71.8final
1972Goat meat72.7final
1973Goat meat72.6final
1974Goat meat74.3final
1975Goat meat76.3final
1976Goat meat78.4final
1977Goat meat79.1final
1978Goat meat82.3final
1979Goat meat85.6final
1980Goat meat87.7final
1981Goat meat89.5final
1982Goat meat91.1final
1983Goat meat93.2final
1984Goat meat91.4final
1985Goat meat91.3final
1986Goat meat93.8final
1987Goat meat98.8final
1988Goat meat103.6final
1989Goat meat109.7final
1990Goat meat110.1final
1991Goat meat113.1final
1992Goat meat114.9final
1993Goat meat115.8final
1994Goat meat121.2final
1995Goat meat127.6final
1996Goat meat135.9final
1997Goat meat132.3final
1998Goat meat136.8final
1999Goat meat138.7final
2000Goat meat143.0final
2001Goat meat145.7final
2002Goat meat146.5final
2003Goat meat148.8final
2004Goat meat154.0final
2005Goat meat158.1final
2006Goat meat158.1final
2007Goat meat163.8final
2008Goat meat168.9final
2009Goat meat170.4final
2010Goat meat164.5final
2011Goat meat165.7final
2012Goat meat172.0final
2013Goat meat181.9final
2014Goat meat185.5final
2015Goat meat188.4final
2016Goat meat193.3final
2017Goat meat196.3final
2018Goat meat198.3final
2019Goat meat205.0final
2020Goat meat208.9final
2021Goat meat208.7final
2022Goat meat211.9final
2023Goat meat214.3final
1961Pork98.0final
1962Pork103.5final
1963Pork106.8final
1964Pork106.9final
1965Pork112.2final
1966Pork112.6final
1967Pork119.8final
1968Pork120.9final
1969Pork120.3final
1970Pork122.9final
1971Pork137.8final
1972Pork144.0final
1973Pork145.7final
1974Pork147.1final
1975Pork145.0final
1976Pork141.6final
1977Pork148.7final
1978Pork154.8final
1979Pork160.9final
1980Pork168.3final
1981Pork165.5final
1982Pork163.2final
1983Pork163.2final
1984Pork166.6final
1985Pork166.7final
1986Pork171.7final
1987Pork172.9final
1988Pork173.7final
1989Pork175.6final
1990Pork175.7final
1991Pork178.7final
1992Pork178.6final
1993Pork178.8final
1994Pork180.2final
1995Pork181.1final
1996Pork181.5final
1997Pork173.3final
1998Pork178.1final
1999Pork180.5final
2000Pork181.2final
2001Pork179.1final
2002Pork181.5final
2003Pork183.2final
2004Pork182.4final
2005Pork184.5final
2006Pork188.2final
2007Pork188.4final
2008Pork191.4final
2009Pork194.2final
2010Pork195.4final
2011Pork196.0final
2012Pork197.1final
2013Pork196.0final
2014Pork199.2final
2015Pork201.1final
2016Pork201.4final
2017Pork201.5final
2018Pork199.1final
2019Pork184.3final
2020Pork197.3final
2021Pork202.0final
2022Pork201.7final
2023Pork199.2final
1961Buffalo milk37.7final
1962Buffalo milk38.3final
1963Buffalo milk38.7final
1964Buffalo milk39.1final
1965Buffalo milk39.7final
1966Buffalo milk39.9final
1967Buffalo milk39.2final
1968Buffalo milk40.8final
1969Buffalo milk41.3final
1970Buffalo milk42.1final
1971Buffalo milk45.1final
1972Buffalo milk45.7final
1973Buffalo milk46.2final
1974Buffalo milk46.7final
1975Buffalo milk47.3final
1976Buffalo milk49.3final
1977Buffalo milk51.1final
1978Buffalo milk49.5final
1979Buffalo milk52.2final
1980Buffalo milk54.8final
1981Buffalo milk57.0final
1982Buffalo milk57.9final
1983Buffalo milk59.0final
1984Buffalo milk63.0final
1985Buffalo milk65.2final
1986Buffalo milk69.1final
1987Buffalo milk70.2final
1988Buffalo milk72.3final
1989Buffalo milk76.2final
1990Buffalo milk77.1final
1991Buffalo milk82.5final
1992Buffalo milk78.8final
1993Buffalo milk79.7final
1994Buffalo milk81.9final
1995Buffalo milk83.5final
1996Buffalo milk86.0final
1997Buffalo milk87.0final
1998Buffalo milk90.2final
1999Buffalo milk90.0final
2000Buffalo milk91.2final
2001Buffalo milk94.1final
2002Buffalo milk95.7final
2003Buffalo milk96.5final
2004Buffalo milk99.2final
2005Buffalo milk102.0final
2006Buffalo milk103.8final
2007Buffalo milk107.2final
2008Buffalo milk108.5final
2009Buffalo milk111.0final
2010Buffalo milk113.9final
2011Buffalo milk116.9final
2012Buffalo milk118.8final
2013Buffalo milk120.5final
2014Buffalo milk122.3final
2015Buffalo milk126.3final
2016Buffalo milk129.7final
2017Buffalo milk131.9final
2018Buffalo milk135.5final
2019Buffalo milk137.1final
2020Buffalo milk135.7final
2021Buffalo milk140.0final
2022Buffalo milk143.6final
2023Buffalo milk145.8final
1961Chicken7.0final
1962Chicken7.3final
1963Chicken7.7final
1964Chicken7.8final
1965Chicken8.0final
1966Chicken8.0final
1967Chicken8.5final
1968Chicken8.9final
1969Chicken9.2final
1970Chicken9.7final
1971Chicken10.0final
1972Chicken10.4final
1973Chicken10.8final
1974Chicken11.1final
1975Chicken11.2final
1976Chicken11.6final
1977Chicken12.1final
1978Chicken13.5final
1979Chicken14.5final
1980Chicken15.5final
1981Chicken16.6final
1982Chicken17.2final
1983Chicken17.8final
1984Chicken18.6final
1985Chicken19.4final
1986Chicken20.7final
1987Chicken22.2final
1988Chicken23.4final
1989Chicken24.4final
1990Chicken25.3final
1991Chicken25.8final
1992Chicken27.3final
1993Chicken29.0final
1994Chicken29.9final
1995Chicken30.8final
1996Chicken32.7final
1997Chicken34.5final
1998Chicken30.5final
1999Chicken31.6final
2000Chicken33.5final
2001Chicken35.1final
2002Chicken38.8final
2003Chicken38.8final
2004Chicken40.1final
2005Chicken41.3final
2006Chicken42.1final
2007Chicken44.1final
2008Chicken46.0final
2009Chicken48.6final
2010Chicken50.0final
2011Chicken48.9final
2012Chicken50.2final
2013Chicken51.8final
2014Chicken52.2final
2015Chicken54.6final
2016Chicken56.5final
2017Chicken64.0final
2018Chicken63.9final
2019Chicken64.9final
2020Chicken66.0final
2021Chicken64.4final
2022Chicken67.0final
2023Chicken68.4final
1961Sheep's milk32.2final
1962Sheep's milk32.3final
1963Sheep's milk32.7final
1964Sheep's milk33.1final
1965Sheep's milk33.3final
1966Sheep's milk33.6final
1967Sheep's milk34.5final
1968Sheep's milk35.0final
1969Sheep's milk34.8final
1970Sheep's milk34.9final
1971Sheep's milk34.5final
1972Sheep's milk34.3final
1973Sheep's milk34.6final
1974Sheep's milk35.2final
1975Sheep's milk36.0final
1976Sheep's milk36.8final
1977Sheep's milk37.6final
1978Sheep's milk38.7final
1979Sheep's milk39.6final
1980Sheep's milk40.9final
1981Sheep's milk41.7final
1982Sheep's milk42.3final
1983Sheep's milk43.5final
1984Sheep's milk41.9final
1985Sheep's milk42.3final
1986Sheep's milk42.1final
1987Sheep's milk42.6final
1988Sheep's milk43.8final
1989Sheep's milk44.5final
1990Sheep's milk46.5final
1991Sheep's milk46.7final
1992Sheep's milk47.1final
1993Sheep's milk47.0final
1994Sheep's milk48.0final
1995Sheep's milk48.1final
1996Sheep's milk49.0final
1997Sheep's milk48.9final
1998Sheep's milk49.2final
1999Sheep's milk49.7final
2000Sheep's milk50.1final
2001Sheep's milk49.6final
2002Sheep's milk49.2final
2003Sheep's milk48.0final
2004Sheep's milk48.2final
2005Sheep's milk49.7final
2006Sheep's milk49.9final
2007Sheep's milk51.2final
2008Sheep's milk50.1final
2009Sheep's milk51.9final
2010Sheep's milk58.9final
2011Sheep's milk59.3final
2012Sheep's milk57.6final
2013Sheep's milk55.6final
2014Sheep's milk55.7final
2015Sheep's milk55.9final
2016Sheep's milk56.7final
2017Sheep's milk56.7final
2018Sheep's milk57.2final
2019Sheep's milk58.9final
2020Sheep's milk58.1final
2021Sheep's milk58.5final
2022Sheep's milk57.7final
2023Sheep's milk57.6final
1961Goat's milk17.4final
1962Goat's milk17.1final
1963Goat's milk17.0final
1964Goat's milk17.1final
1965Goat's milk17.4final
1966Goat's milk17.2final
1967Goat's milk17.3final
1968Goat's milk17.7final
1969Goat's milk17.8final
1970Goat's milk17.9final
1971Goat's milk18.0final
1972Goat's milk17.9final
1973Goat's milk18.0final
1974Goat's milk18.5final
1975Goat's milk19.2final
1976Goat's milk19.7final
1977Goat's milk20.5final
1978Goat's milk21.2final
1979Goat's milk21.6final
1980Goat's milk21.8final
1981Goat's milk22.3final
1982Goat's milk22.6final
1983Goat's milk23.0final
1984Goat's milk23.1final
1985Goat's milk23.8final
1986Goat's milk24.6final
1987Goat's milk25.0final
1988Goat's milk25.6final
1989Goat's milk26.3final
1990Goat's milk29.6final
1991Goat's milk28.5final
1992Goat's milk28.5final
1993Goat's milk29.5final
1994Goat's milk31.1final
1995Goat's milk32.2final
1996Goat's milk31.3final
1997Goat's milk32.3final
1998Goat's milk33.0final
1999Goat's milk34.9final
2000Goat's milk34.6final
2001Goat's milk34.3final
2002Goat's milk35.2final
2003Goat's milk35.8final
2004Goat's milk35.8final
2005Goat's milk37.0final
2006Goat's milk37.0final
2007Goat's milk37.7final
2008Goat's milk37.4final
2009Goat's milk38.6final
2010Goat's milk45.0final
2011Goat's milk46.8final
2012Goat's milk45.0final
2013Goat's milk40.9final
2014Goat's milk41.6final
2015Goat's milk42.9final
2016Goat's milk43.9final
2017Goat's milk44.5final
2018Goat's milk46.0final
2019Goat's milk48.3final
2020Goat's milk48.4final
2021Goat's milk49.1final
2022Goat's milk50.8final
2023Goat's milk51.0final
1961Eggs16.6final
1962Eggs17.0final
1963Eggs16.9final
1964Eggs17.2final
1965Eggs17.8final
1966Eggs18.6final
1967Eggs19.4final
1968Eggs19.9final
1969Eggs20.4final
1970Eggs21.7final
1971Eggs22.4final
1972Eggs22.6final
1973Eggs22.9final
1974Eggs23.3final
1975Eggs23.5final
1976Eggs24.1final
1977Eggs24.4final
1978Eggs23.0final
1979Eggs23.5final
1980Eggs23.6final
1981Eggs23.6final
1982Eggs23.9final
1983Eggs24.1final
1984Eggs24.7final
1985Eggs25.4final
1986Eggs25.8final
1987Eggs26.2final
1988Eggs26.5final
1989Eggs26.7final
1990Eggs27.0final
1991Eggs27.3final
1992Eggs26.1final
1993Eggs26.0final
1994Eggs27.6final
1995Eggs28.2final
1996Eggs28.7final
1997Eggs29.3final
1998Eggs30.1final
1999Eggs30.9final
2000Eggs31.8final
2001Eggs32.5final
2002Eggs33.4final
2003Eggs34.4final
2004Eggs35.6final
2005Eggs36.5final
2006Eggs37.5final
2007Eggs38.3final
2008Eggs39.3final
2009Eggs39.5final
2010Eggs40.7final
2011Eggs41.2final
2012Eggs42.5final
2013Eggs42.9final
2014Eggs43.7final
2015Eggs44.2final
2016Eggs45.1final
2017Eggs45.6final
2018Eggs44.4final
2019Eggs46.2final
2020Eggs49.5final
2021Eggs47.6final
2022Eggs48.1final
2023Eggs49.6final
1961Camel's milk3.0final
1962Camel's milk3.1final
1963Camel's milk3.3final
1964Camel's milk3.5final
1965Camel's milk3.7final
1966Camel's milk3.9final
1967Camel's milk4.1final
1968Camel's milk4.2final
1969Camel's milk4.3final
1970Camel's milk4.6final
1971Camel's milk4.7final
1972Camel's milk4.8final
1973Camel's milk4.7final
1974Camel's milk4.7final
1975Camel's milk4.9final
1976Camel's milk5.1final
1977Camel's milk5.2final
1978Camel's milk5.4final
1979Camel's milk5.5final
1980Camel's milk5.5final
1981Camel's milk5.6final
1982Camel's milk5.8final
1983Camel's milk5.9final
1984Camel's milk5.9final
1985Camel's milk6.0final
1986Camel's milk6.0final
1987Camel's milk6.2final
1988Camel's milk6.3final
1989Camel's milk6.5final
1990Camel's milk6.5final
1991Camel's milk6.3final
1992Camel's milk6.1final
1993Camel's milk6.0final
1994Camel's milk6.2final
1995Camel's milk6.4final
1996Camel's milk6.4final
1997Camel's milk6.5final
1998Camel's milk6.5final
1999Camel's milk7.1final
2000Camel's milk7.4final
2001Camel's milk7.2final
2002Camel's milk7.7final
2003Camel's milk7.6final
2004Camel's milk8.0final
2005Camel's milk8.1final
2006Camel's milk7.7final
2007Camel's milk8.6final
2008Camel's milk9.2final
2009Camel's milk9.4final
2010Camel's milk9.4final
2011Camel's milk9.8final
2012Camel's milk11.9final
2013Camel's milk12.4final
2014Camel's milk12.1final
2015Camel's milk12.5final
2016Camel's milk12.8final
2017Camel's milk13.2final
2018Camel's milk13.3final
2019Camel's milk14.0final
2020Camel's milk14.2final
2021Camel's milk14.0final
2022Camel's milk13.6final
2023Camel's milk14.1final
Calculated by Environment Dashboard from FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT. Accessed on 5 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Changes: converted from kilotonnes to million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent. CC BY 4.0 (FAO Statistical Database Terms of Use).

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What was done to it

  1. Read Environment_Emissions_intensities_E_All_Data_(Normalized).csv from FAOSTAT's EI bulk zip. The vintage is the domain's DateUpdate, 20 February 2026, from FAOSTAT's bulk-download catalogue (datasets_E.json), whose entry names this zip and gives FileRows 409,511, the number of data rows in this file. The zip was last modified on the server on Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:00:03 GMT. FAO's methodological note for this domain (release October 2025) says its emissions come from FAOSTAT's Emissions from crops and Emissions from livestock domains and its production from FAOSTAT Production (QCL).

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/food/faostat_commodity_emissions.py · code sha256 9a5d1496e68aed60… · inputs 1c2991089fec… 008f475c971a…

  2. Kept the rows of element "Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5)" (code 723113, unit "kt") for the 14 items of the file, matched by Item Code, 1961–2023.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/food/faostat_commodity_emissions.py · code sha256 9a5d1496e68aed60… · inputs 1c2991089fec… 008f475c971a…

  3. Left out former states and territories reported only before their dissolution, with no entity here (Belgium-Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia PDR, Sudan (former), USSR, Yugoslav SFR); FAO regional and analytical groups (Africa, Americas, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Caribbean, Central America, Central Asia, China, Eastern Africa, Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs), Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), Melanesia, Micronesia, Middle Africa, Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), Northern Africa, Northern America, Northern Europe, OECD, Oceania, Polynesia, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), South America, South-eastern Asia, Southern Africa, Southern Asia, Southern Europe, Western Africa, Western Asia, Western Europe); the European Union (27), a region (only the world and countries and territories are published). Their values are never re-assigned to other entities.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/food/faostat_commodity_emissions.py · code sha256 9a5d1496e68aed60… · inputs 1c2991089fec… 008f475c971a…

  4. 75 published values are below zero (buffalo-meat, goat-meat, sheep-meat; AUT, BTN, ISR, LTU, MKD, MLI, PSE), from FAO's split of sheep, goat, buffalo and camel emissions between meat and milk by the share of animals milked; the lowest is MLI goat-meat 2011 (-6.3167537 million tonnes). Published as printed.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/food/faostat_commodity_emissions.py · code sha256 9a5d1496e68aed60… · inputs 1c2991089fec… 008f475c971a…

  5. Converted kilotonnes to million tonnes by dividing by 1,000 (exact decimal arithmetic on the printed values).

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/food/faostat_commodity_emissions.py · code sha256 9a5d1496e68aed60… · inputs 1c2991089fec… 008f475c971a…

  6. Every value used carries FAO's flag E, which the file's codebook defines as "Estimated value".

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/food/faostat_commodity_emissions.py · code sha256 9a5d1496e68aed60… · inputs 1c2991089fec… 008f475c971a…

  7. Labelled FAO's items in plain words: "Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled" as "Beef"; "Raw milk of cattle" as "Cow's milk"; "Cereals excluding rice" as "Cereals other than rice"; "Meat of buffalo, fresh or chilled" as "Buffalo meat"; "Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled" as "Lamb and mutton"; "Meat of goat, fresh or chilled" as "Goat meat"; "Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled" as "Pork"; "Raw milk of buffalo" as "Buffalo milk"; "Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled" as "Chicken"; "Raw milk of sheep" as "Sheep's milk"; "Raw milk of goats" as "Goat's milk"; "Hen eggs in shell, fresh" as "Eggs"; "Raw milk of camel" as "Camel's milk". Only the names shown differ; every value is FAO's item of that name.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/food/faostat_commodity_emissions.py · code sha256 9a5d1496e68aed60… · inputs 1c2991089fec… 008f475c971a…

What it covers

Geography
Countries and territories, and the world
Gases combined with
AR5-GWP100
Land use, land-use change and forestry
excluded
Basis
FAOSTAT Emissions intensities (EI). FAO assigns each kind of animal to a product: non-dairy cattle to cattle meat, dairy cattle to cattle milk, all pigs to pig meat, broilers to chicken meat and laying hens to eggs; sheep, goat, buffalo and camel emissions are split between meat and milk by the share of animals milked, which gives some negative meat values, published as printed (the processing steps count them). Synthetic fertiliser is shared among crops by FAO's 1995-2000 fertiliser use by crop. Milk is raw milk, not corrected for fat and protein, and products are compared by weight, not by protein or energy. FAO TIER 1 estimates (IPCC 2006 Guidelines), not country inventory submissions. The products do not add up to any FAO total and overlap FAO's farm-gate process items (for example rice includes rice's share of fertiliser), so they are never stacked with them.
Unit
million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO₂e)