Methane emissions from the fossil fuel sector in sub-Saharan Africa, 2025

Sources

IEA estimates based on measured, satellite, and inferred data (see Documentation for further information).

Notes

Other includes Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Methane intensity is calculated in energy terms as emissions from upstream operations divided by marketed fuel production volume, assuming methane has an energy density of 55 megajoules per kilogram (MJ/kg).