Sub-Saharan Africa excluding 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.
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The World Bank
Origin
Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa
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53
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Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa | CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons)
1960 26899.46071346
1961 28405.50377865
1962 29523.75028728
1963 32431.96911393
1964 36836.06003867
1965 45785.35105894
1966 49361.17647095
1967 50742.48008495
1968 50485.67434263
1969 61816.25497352
1970 76909.42882901
1971 92485.08620038
1972 103870.14077661
1973 119877.99176705
1974 135123.37889501
1975 116555.82779479
1976 124538.3576204
1977 119523.99068804
1978 122383.23017236
1979 148023.0226093
1980 149069.46535934
1981 143666.08625224
1982 141141.39723819
1983 135819.71068779
1984 144366.30816676
1985 147377.26239923
1986 151710.85802581
1987 146066.29137037
1988 162906.62841475
1989 133738.49555294
1990 132812.64657707
1991 128498.7542696
1992 151826.44783849
1993 150496.10413321
1994 138009.54479418
1995 136723.80189889
1996 147022.27608084
1997 145981.16288554
1998 141420.46552997
1999 151101.26434605
2000 188472.56635677
2001 198683.09485044
2002 222226.18748493
2003 231057.75234288
2004 236197.87802994
2005 244920.98507385
2006 244084.31050836
2007 257672.52521086
2008 252861.64645929
2009 232998.37251562
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Sub-Saharan Africa excluding 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
Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa
Records
53
Source