Data
Where methane comes from: each sector's share of all methane emissions
Each sector's methane emissions as a percentage of all methane emitted by the world or a country in a year, since 1990, as published by FAO, for the six sectors that make up FAO's total: energy (fossil fuel production and use), industrial processes and product use, agriculture (livestock, rice, manure), land use (fires), waste and other. Where FAO publishes all six, they add up to 100. Food systems' methane runs across several of these sectors.
Latest value
43.5%
The world, countries and territories, and the European Union (27), 2023. Version 2025-10-28.
Where methane comes from: each sector's share of all methane emissions (percent of all methane emissions)
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| Period | IPCC sector | Value (%) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Energy | 33.1 | final |
| 1991 | Energy | 32.5 | final |
| 1992 | Energy | 32.5 | final |
| 1993 | Energy | 32.6 | final |
| 1994 | Energy | 32.7 | final |
| 1995 | Energy | 33.1 | final |
| 1996 | Energy | 33.8 | final |
| 1997 | Energy | 32.8 | final |
| 1998 | Energy | 32.6 | final |
| 1999 | Energy | 32.6 | final |
| 2000 | Energy | 33.6 | final |
| 2001 | Energy | 33.9 | final |
| 2002 | Energy | 32.5 | final |
| 2003 | Energy | 34.1 | final |
| 2004 | Energy | 33.8 | final |
| 2005 | Energy | 34.5 | final |
| 2006 | Energy | 34.4 | final |
| 2007 | Energy | 34.6 | final |
| 2008 | Energy | 34.9 | final |
| 2009 | Energy | 34.1 | final |
| 2010 | Energy | 34.9 | final |
| 2011 | Energy | 35.5 | final |
| 2012 | Energy | 35.6 | final |
| 2013 | Energy | 35.4 | final |
| 2014 | Energy | 35.0 | final |
| 2015 | Energy | 34.5 | final |
| 2016 | Energy | 34.6 | final |
| 2017 | Energy | 34.8 | final |
| 2018 | Energy | 35.2 | final |
| 2019 | Energy | 35.1 | final |
| 2020 | Energy | 33.9 | final |
| 2021 | Energy | 34.4 | final |
| 2022 | Energy | 35.2 | final |
| 2023 | Energy | 35.1 | final |
| 1990 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 1991 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 1992 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 1993 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 1994 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 1995 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 1996 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 1997 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 1998 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 1999 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2000 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2001 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2002 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2003 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2004 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2005 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2006 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2007 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2008 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2009 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2010 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.1 | final |
| 2011 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.2 | final |
| 2012 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.2 | final |
| 2013 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.2 | final |
| 2014 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.2 | final |
| 2015 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.2 | final |
| 2016 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.2 | final |
| 2017 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.2 | final |
| 2018 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.2 | final |
| 2019 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.2 | final |
| 2020 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.3 | final |
| 2021 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.3 | final |
| 2022 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.2 | final |
| 2023 | Industrial processes and product use | 0.3 | final |
| 1990 | Agriculture | 48.1 | final |
| 1991 | Agriculture | 48.3 | final |
| 1992 | Agriculture | 48.1 | final |
| 1993 | Agriculture | 47.9 | final |
| 1994 | Agriculture | 47.9 | final |
| 1995 | Agriculture | 47.5 | final |
| 1996 | Agriculture | 47.2 | final |
| 1997 | Agriculture | 44.9 | final |
| 1998 | Agriculture | 46.5 | final |
| 1999 | Agriculture | 47.3 | final |
| 2000 | Agriculture | 47.3 | final |
| 2001 | Agriculture | 47.7 | final |
| 2002 | Agriculture | 47.4 | final |
| 2003 | Agriculture | 46.6 | final |
| 2004 | Agriculture | 46.0 | final |
| 2005 | Agriculture | 46.2 | final |
| 2006 | Agriculture | 45.4 | final |
| 2007 | Agriculture | 46.3 | final |
| 2008 | Agriculture | 46.2 | final |
| 2009 | Agriculture | 45.8 | final |
| 2010 | Agriculture | 45.8 | final |
| 2011 | Agriculture | 45.1 | final |
| 2012 | Agriculture | 44.9 | final |
| 2013 | Agriculture | 44.8 | final |
| 2014 | Agriculture | 44.2 | final |
| 2015 | Agriculture | 44.3 | final |
| 2016 | Agriculture | 45.1 | final |
| 2017 | Agriculture | 44.8 | final |
| 2018 | Agriculture | 44.0 | final |
| 2019 | Agriculture | 43.1 | final |
| 2020 | Agriculture | 44.8 | final |
| 2021 | Agriculture | 44.5 | final |
| 2022 | Agriculture | 44.0 | final |
| 2023 | Agriculture | 43.5 | final |
| 1990 | Land use (fires) | 2.5 | final |
| 1991 | Land use (fires) | 2.5 | final |
| 1992 | Land use (fires) | 2.5 | final |
| 1993 | Land use (fires) | 2.5 | final |
| 1994 | Land use (fires) | 2.5 | final |
| 1995 | Land use (fires) | 2.5 | final |
| 1996 | Land use (fires) | 2.1 | final |
| 1997 | Land use (fires) | 5.8 | final |
| 1998 | Land use (fires) | 4.0 | final |
| 1999 | Land use (fires) | 2.9 | final |
| 2000 | Land use (fires) | 1.8 | final |
| 2001 | Land use (fires) | 1.1 | final |
| 2002 | Land use (fires) | 3.0 | final |
| 2003 | Land use (fires) | 2.1 | final |
| 2004 | Land use (fires) | 3.3 | final |
| 2005 | Land use (fires) | 2.3 | final |
| 2006 | Land use (fires) | 3.3 | final |
| 2007 | Land use (fires) | 1.7 | final |
| 2008 | Land use (fires) | 1.4 | final |
| 2009 | Land use (fires) | 2.6 | final |
| 2010 | Land use (fires) | 1.8 | final |
| 2011 | Land use (fires) | 1.9 | final |
| 2012 | Land use (fires) | 2.1 | final |
| 2013 | Land use (fires) | 1.8 | final |
| 2014 | Land use (fires) | 2.8 | final |
| 2015 | Land use (fires) | 3.0 | final |
| 2016 | Land use (fires) | 1.5 | final |
| 2017 | Land use (fires) | 1.3 | final |
| 2018 | Land use (fires) | 1.7 | final |
| 2019 | Land use (fires) | 2.6 | final |
| 2020 | Land use (fires) | 1.4 | final |
| 2021 | Land use (fires) | 1.2 | final |
| 2022 | Land use (fires) | 0.9 | final |
| 2023 | Land use (fires) | 1.6 | final |
| 1990 | Waste | 16.2 | final |
| 1991 | Waste | 16.6 | final |
| 1992 | Waste | 16.7 | final |
| 1993 | Waste | 16.9 | final |
| 1994 | Waste | 16.9 | final |
| 1995 | Waste | 16.8 | final |
| 1996 | Waste | 16.8 | final |
| 1997 | Waste | 16.3 | final |
| 1998 | Waste | 16.8 | final |
| 1999 | Waste | 17.0 | final |
| 2000 | Waste | 17.2 | final |
| 2001 | Waste | 17.2 | final |
| 2002 | Waste | 17.0 | final |
| 2003 | Waste | 17.1 | final |
| 2004 | Waste | 16.8 | final |
| 2005 | Waste | 16.9 | final |
| 2006 | Waste | 16.8 | final |
| 2007 | Waste | 17.3 | final |
| 2008 | Waste | 17.3 | final |
| 2009 | Waste | 17.3 | final |
| 2010 | Waste | 17.4 | final |
| 2011 | Waste | 17.2 | final |
| 2012 | Waste | 17.2 | final |
| 2013 | Waste | 17.7 | final |
| 2014 | Waste | 17.7 | final |
| 2015 | Waste | 18.0 | final |
| 2016 | Waste | 18.6 | final |
| 2017 | Waste | 18.7 | final |
| 2018 | Waste | 18.9 | final |
| 2019 | Waste | 18.9 | final |
| 2020 | Waste | 19.6 | final |
| 2021 | Waste | 19.6 | final |
| 2022 | Waste | 19.6 | final |
| 2023 | Waste | 19.4 | final |
| 1990 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 1991 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 1992 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 1993 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 1994 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 1995 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 1996 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 1997 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 1998 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 1999 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2000 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2001 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2002 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2003 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2004 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2005 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2006 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2007 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2008 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2009 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2010 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2011 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2012 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2013 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2014 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2015 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2016 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2017 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2018 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2019 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2020 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2021 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2022 | Other | 0.1 | final |
| 2023 | Other | 0.0 | final |
Where it comes from
- Producer
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Statistics Division · FAOSTAT greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors (with PRIMAP-hist v2.7)
- Version
- 2025-10-28
- Fetched
- 2026-10-05 (automatically), 4,655,416 bytes
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- sha256 d48bf98589ccfd3ffc2aae314091088d3a989cb58d3f149fdc26856178d6da34ETag "09064d9dbb13662b004da75f13044915" · Last-Modified Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:06:06 GMT
- Copies
- No Wayback copy recorded yet.Our copy of the exact file
- Cite the producer
- FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT. Accessed on 5 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Energy, industrial processes, waste and other emissions: Gütschow, J., Busch, D. & Pflüger, M. (2025). The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series (1750-2024) v2.7. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17090760 Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Producer
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Statistics Division · FAOSTAT greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors (with PRIMAP-hist v2.7)
- Version
- 2025-10-28
- Fetched
- 2026-10-05 (automatically), 109,120 bytes
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- sha256 008f475c971a7770c69b1bc48f1c3a5fa8bf3873e762d6e1e9516bb0a700ebdaETag W/"157c9ec8e5eea09a02497cc10f67bcdb" · Last-Modified Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:49:35 GMT
- Copies
- No Wayback copy recorded yet.Our copy of the exact file
- Cite the producer
- FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT. Accessed on 5 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Energy, industrial processes, waste and other emissions: Gütschow, J., Busch, D. & Pflüger, M. (2025). The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series (1750-2024) v2.7. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17090760 Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
What was done to it
Read Climate_change_Emissions_indicators_E_All_Data_(Normalized).csv from FAOSTAT's Emissions indicators (EM) bulk zip. The vintage is the domain's DateUpdate, 28 October 2025, from FAOSTAT's bulk-download catalogue (datasets_E.json), whose entry names this zip and gives FileRows 678,370, the number of data rows in this file. The zip was last modified on the server on Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:06:06 GMT.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
Kept the rows of element "Emissions Share (CH4)" (code 7265), unit "%", for the six IPCC sector items "Energy" (6821), "IPPU" (6817), "IPCC Agriculture" (1711), "LULUCF" (1707), "Waste" (6818), "Other" (6819), 1990–2023, as FAO prints them: each sector's methane as a percentage of the area's methane from all sectors (item "All sectors with LULUCF"). Nothing is computed here.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
Checked that the six shares add up to 100 within 0.03 (the rounding of values printed to 0.01) in each of the 1,398 area-years where FAO publishes all six; the transform stops otherwise.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
FAO publishes no row for some parts of some areas' methane splits. Those parts are left missing, never filled or set to zero, and a sector without a share is one for which FAOSTAT's emissions totals (GT) have no methane row for that area and year, so it is not part of the whole. ARE, ARG, AUT, BGD, BHR, BRA, BRN, BTN, CAN, CIV, CYP, DNK, DOM, EGY, FRA, GAB, GBR, GIN, GNQ, GRC, GTM, HKG, IDN, IRL, IRN, IRQ, ISL, ISR, ITA, JAM, JPN, KOR, KWT, LBN, LBY, LCA, MAC, MAR, MDV, MEX, MLT, MMR, MRT, MYS, NGA, NOR, OMN, PAK, PAN, PER, PHL, PRK, PRY, QAT, RWA, SAU, STP, SWE, THA, TTO, TUN, TUR, TWN, URY, VEN, VNM, ZAF, ZMB, ZWE: no Other (item 6819) (1990–2023). ABW, AGO, AIA, ATG, BEN, BFA, BHS, BLZ, BOL, BRB, BWA, CAF, CMR, COD, COG, COK, COM, CPV, CRI, DJI, DMA, FJI, GHA, GMB, GNB, HND, JOR, KEN, KHM, KIR, KNA, LAO, LBR, LKA, LSO, MDG, MLI, MNG, MOZ, MWI, NAM, NER, NIC, NIU, NPL, NRU, PNG, SEN, SHN, SLE, SLV, SOM, SUR, SWZ, SYC, SYR, TCA, TCD, TGO, TLS, TON, TZA, UGA, VCT, VGB, VUT, YEM: no Industrial processes and product use (item 6817) (1990–2023); Other (item 6819) (1990–2023). BIH, EST, GEO, KAZ, LVA, MDA, RUS, SVN, TJK, TKM, UZB: no Other (item 6819) (1992–2023). ERI, ETH: no Industrial processes and product use (item 6817) (1993–2023); Other (item 6819) (1993–2023). SDN, SSD: no Industrial processes and product use (item 6817) (2012–2023); Other (item 6819) (2012–2023). TKL, TUV: no Energy (item 6821) (1990–2023); Industrial processes and product use (item 6817) (1990–2023); Other (item 6819) (1990–2023). CZE: no Other (item 6819) (1993–2023). FSM: no Energy (item 6821) (1991–2023); Industrial processes and product use (item 6817) (1991–2023); Other (item 6819) (1991–2023). HTI: no Industrial processes and product use (item 6817) (1990–2023). KGZ: no Industrial processes and product use (item 6817) (1992–2023); Other (item 6819) (1992–2023). LUX: no Other (item 6819) (2000–2023). MYT: no Energy (item 6821) (1990–1999); Industrial processes and product use (item 6817) (1990–1999); Waste (item 6818) (1990–1999); Other (item 6819) (1990–1999). PLW: no Industrial processes and product use (item 6817) (1991–2023); Other (item 6819) (1991–2023). SRB: no Other (item 6819) (2006–2023).
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
Published as printed, although the shares FAO publishes for these areas and years add up to a little less or more than 100 beyond the rounding of their printed values (the sum in brackets): NIU 2001 (99.77), 2008 (99.78), 2010 (99.78), 2012 (99.78), 2014 (99.79), 2022 (99.8), 2023 (99.8).
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
Left out former states and territories reported only before their dissolution, with no entity here (Belgium-Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia PDR, Netherlands Antilles (former), Pacific Islands Trust Territory, Sudan (former), USSR, Yugoslav SFR); FAO regional and analytical groups (Africa, Americas, Annex I countries, 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), Non-Annex I countries, 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). Their values are never re-assigned to other entities.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
Every value used carries FAO's flag E, which the file's codebook defines as "Estimated value".
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
What it covers
- Geography
- The world, countries and territories, and the European Union (27)
- Land use, land-use change and forestry
- included
- Basis
- FAO's published shares (FAOSTAT Emissions indicators, element "Emissions Share (CH4)") of methane by mass, so no global warming potential is involved. The whole is FAO's all-sector methane ("All sectors with LULUCF"). FAOSTAT's six IPCC sectors: energy, industrial processes and product use, agriculture, land use, land-use change and forestry (for methane, fires in forests and in organic (peat) soils; forests take up carbon dioxide, not methane, so nothing is subtracted and the share is never below zero), waste and other. International aviation and shipping (bunker fuels) are not included. Agriculture and land use are FAO's own Tier 1 estimates; energy, industry, waste and other are PRIMAP-hist v2.7 third-party estimates, which count some territories inside their parent country (for example Bermuda in the United Kingdom, Greenland and the Faroe Islands in Denmark, Palestine in Israel, Puerto Rico in the United States). So such a parent country's energy, industry, waste and other emissions include those territories while its agriculture and land use do not, and for 28 territories in the October 2025 release FAO has no energy, industry, waste or other rows, so their total covers agriculture and land use only. Estimates, not country inventory submissions.
- Unit
- percent of all methane emissions (%)