CO2 emissions from gas fuel consumption (thousand metric tons) - Infrastructure - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators



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Carbon dioxide emissions from gas fuel consumption refer mainly to emissions from use of natural gas as an energy source and from secondary fuels derived from natural gas (e.g., blast furnace gas). 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. Source: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
CO2 emissions from gas fuel consumption (thousand metric tons) - Infrastructure - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2006)

Rank

Country

Value

1Africa61,073,705
2North Africa37,748,000
3Egypt17,352,000
4Algeria14,955,000
5Nigeria5,621,000
6Libya3,260,000
7South Africa2,384,000
8Tunisia1,882,000
9Ivory Coast855,000
10Angola408,000
11Morocco299,000
12Equatorial Guinea251,000
13Tanzania196,000
14Gabon66,000
15Mozambique44,000
16Republic of the Congo12,000
17Senegal6,000
18Djibouti0
19Central African Republic0
20Eritrea0
21Ethiopia0
22Ghana0
23Guinea0
24Gambia0
25Kenya0
26Liberia0
27Guinea-Bissau0
28Mali0
29Burundi0
30Mauritania0
31Mauritius0
32Malawi0
33Madagascar0
34Namibia0
35Niger0
36Benin0
37Rwanda0
38Sudan0
39Burkina Faso0
40Sierra Leone0
41Botswana0
42Sao Tome and Principe0
43Swaziland0
44Seychelles0
45Chad0
46Togo0
47Somalia0
48Comoros0
49Uganda0
50Cape Verde0
51Democratic Republic of the Congo0
52Zambia0
53Zimbabwe0
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