South 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
Republic of South Africa
Records
53
Source
South Africa | CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons)
1960 97934.569
1961 102213.958
1962 105767.281
1963 109826.65
1964 119657.877
1965 128260.659
1966 128356.001
1967 133885.837
1968 138084.552
1969 143280.691
1970 149763.947
1971 168568.323
1972 171725.61
1973 173533.441
1974 176734.732
1975 185201.835
1976 193115.221
1977 199950.509
1978 202099.371
1979 218908.899
1980 228454.1
1981 257368.395
1982 280749.187
1983 292230.564
1984 315948.72
1985 324214.138
1986 330855.075
1987 329025.242
1988 343055.184
1989 341108.007
1990 333513.65
1991 346337.149
1992 324852.196
1993 342549.138
1994 358929.627
1995 353458.463
1996 358639.934
1997 371327.754
1998 372218.835
1999 371034.394
2000 368610.507
2001 362743.307
2002 347686.605
2003 380810.616
2004 427132.16
2005 396116.674
2006 424843.952
2007 443648.328
2008 464957.265
2009 499016.361
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South 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
Republic of South Africa
Records
53
Source