Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only) | 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 (excluding high income)
Records
53
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Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only) | CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons)
1960 128004.47231847
1961 133858.16448393
1962 138614.93213691
1963 145330.88039852
1964 159525.98964675
1965 177130.66099951
1966 180716.0257142
1967 187776.84438593
1968 191862.49254918
1969 208254.35554179
1970 229664.21312452
1971 264240.62146709
1972 278570.71024746
1973 296094.36056898
1974 314231.94500644
1975 304882.7137471
1976 320837.4213279
1977 323016.50846779
1978 328015.14488087
1979 370372.80916368
1980 381260.66542962
1981 405867.296385
1982 427567.21458159
1983 434259.85438864
1984 467078.80157385
1985 478569.22280544
1986 489638.9854761
1987 482230.08920046
1988 513127.64998579
1989 482688.64492903
1990 473934.3992018
1991 482900.72567318
1992 483408.53959844
1993 500518.83715478
1994 505350.64875707
1995 498346.20085938
1996 513757.09532449
1997 525667.58013233
1998 522269.45517284
1999 530171.89515667
2000 564130.41481872
2001 565326.3921899
2002 570844.54094676
2003 612590.2067823
2004 666246.44472885
2005 643280.65141153
2006 672071.15730554
2007 704710.7422707
2008 721984.2888594
2009 737728.80108749
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Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only) | 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 (excluding high income)
Records
53
Source