Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | 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
Sub-Saharan Africa
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53
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Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons)
1960 128022.96403533
1961 133876.40328413
1962 138632.96538903
1963 145352.62441539
1964 159547.12290337
1965 177154.98866918
1966 180736.44220958
1967 187797.02204636
1968 191886.32190889
1969 208292.79003205
1970 229694.34362213
1971 264299.90158761
1972 278652.24503468
1973 296114.66965994
1974 314274.37860183
1975 304936.83210083
1976 320891.0004325
1977 323070.01392198
1978 328076.06056476
1979 370424.71403422
1980 381308.41271559
1981 405925.58076369
1982 427628.55511891
1983 434309.59995709
1984 467146.38584638
1985 478621.26036142
1986 489705.80724269
1987 482316.10932184
1988 513220.20498568
1989 482793.59749519
1990 474043.43723917
1991 483092.83031574
1992 483615.78519202
1993 500608.02914317
1994 505371.46595106
1995 498465.74537218
1996 513860.96659355
1997 525952.88247411
1998 522426.07367561
1999 530642.66689145
2000 564581.09871286
2001 568501.95847949
2002 575965.21664532
2003 618780.55114329
2004 671609.97342361
2005 648122.66096056
2006 676953.8479318
2007 709637.77162352
2008 726929.67150165
2009 742673.66438696
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Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | 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
Sub-Saharan Africa
Records
53
Source