Africa | CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons)
Fossil fuel is any hydrocarbon deposit that can be burned for heat or power, such as petroleum, coal, and natural gas. This is the sum total of all fossil fuel emissions (solid fuel consumption, liquid fuel consumption, gas fuel consumption, cement production and gas flaring). The U.S. Department of Energy’s carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) calculates annual anthropogenic emissions from data on fossil fuel consumption (from the United Nations Statistics Division’s World Energy Data Set) and world cement manufacturing (from the U.S. Bureau of Mine’s Cement Manufacturing Data Set). Carbon dioxide emissions, often calculated and reported as elemental carbon, were converted to actual carbon dioxide mass by multiplying them by 3.664 (the ratio of the mass of carbon to that of carbon dioxide). Although estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions are probably accurate within 10 percent (as calculated from global average file chemistry and use), country estimates may have larger error bounds. Trends estimated from a consistent time series tend to be more accurate than individual values. Each year the CDIAC recalculates the entire time series since 1949, incorporating recent findings and corrections. Estimates exclude fuels supplied to ships and aircraft in international transport because of the difficulty of apportioning he fuels among benefitting countries. The ratio of carbon dioxide per unit of energy shows carbon intensity, which is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted as a result of using one unit of energy in the process of production.
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The World Bank
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Africa
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53
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Africa | CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons)
1960 154981.34012706
1961 162414.57282397
1962 167372.78314311
1963 178373.37160308
1964 197198.37797459
1965 217620.5067677
1966 225245.16685883
1967 241484.94533724
1968 262064.05242635
1969 283177.63323752
1970 308339.01153825
1971 338052.76042281
1972 358456.20132354
1973 385129.63018381
1974 395661.46744431
1975 394058.14658386
1976 427739.09668737
1977 440431.11916312
1978 470165.43330244
1979 507692.11106424
1980 543652.84141221
1981 555455.37585816
1982 578167.21937558
1983 601155.62639808
1984 657697.91380553
1985 674149.70501233
1986 703334.62948617
1987 703719.57598647
1988 739422.42955269
1989 706586.11934303
1990 700725.96291135
1991 725014.70678698
1992 723859.87960471
1993 758414.99975767
1994 765231.84370738
1995 779990.59365315
1996 803500.31243556
1997 814892.73655628
1998 846697.36565289
1999 843401.82020373
2000 893731.74900206
2001 883507.38669345
2002 899818.56805356
2003 977091.29604917
2004 1036043.8189732
2005 1049789.5741441
2006 1094820.8323908
2007 1148153.3168654
2008 1184468.8477095
2009 1216321.9559975
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Africa | CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons)
Fossil fuel is any hydrocarbon deposit that can be burned for heat or power, such as petroleum, coal, and natural gas. This is the sum total of all fossil fuel emissions (solid fuel consumption, liquid fuel consumption, gas fuel consumption, cement production and gas flaring). The U.S. Department of Energy’s carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) calculates annual anthropogenic emissions from data on fossil fuel consumption (from the United Nations Statistics Division’s World Energy Data Set) and world cement manufacturing (from the U.S. Bureau of Mine’s Cement Manufacturing Data Set). Carbon dioxide emissions, often calculated and reported as elemental carbon, were converted to actual carbon dioxide mass by multiplying them by 3.664 (the ratio of the mass of carbon to that of carbon dioxide). Although estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions are probably accurate within 10 percent (as calculated from global average file chemistry and use), country estimates may have larger error bounds. Trends estimated from a consistent time series tend to be more accurate than individual values. Each year the CDIAC recalculates the entire time series since 1949, incorporating recent findings and corrections. Estimates exclude fuels supplied to ships and aircraft in international transport because of the difficulty of apportioning he fuels among benefitting countries. The ratio of carbon dioxide per unit of energy shows carbon intensity, which is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted as a result of using one unit of energy in the process of production.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa
Records
53
Source