CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons) - Infrastructure - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators



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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. Source: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, United States
CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons) - Infrastructure - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2006)

Rank

Country

Value

1Africa294,815,930
2Sub-Saharan Africa179,591,297
3North Africa115,487,000
4South Africa113,086,000
5Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa64,354,339
6Egypt45,491,000
7Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria36,793,691
8Algeria36,195,000
9Nigeria26,526,000
10Libya15,135,000
11Morocco12,359,000
12Tunisia6,307,000
13Kenya3,314,000
14Zimbabwe3,022,000
15Sudan2,949,000
16Angola2,886,000
17Ghana2,520,000
18Ivory Coast1,877,000
19Ethiopia1,638,000
20Tanzania1,465,000
21Botswana1,301,000
22Equatorial Guinea1,188,000
23Senegal1,162,000
24Mauritius1,050,000
25Benin848,000
26Madagascar773,000
27Namibia772,000
28Uganda738,000
29Zambia674,000
30Democratic Republic of the Congo600,000
31Gabon561,000
32Mozambique556,000
33Mauritania454,000
34Republic of the Congo399,000
35Guinea371,000
36Togo333,000
37Malawi286,000
38Swaziland277,000
39Sierra Leone271,000
40Niger255,000
41Rwanda217,000
42Burkina Faso215,000
43Liberia214,000
44Seychelles203,000
45Mali155,000
46Eritrea151,000
47Djibouti133,000
48Chad108,000
49Gambia91,000
50Cape Verde84,000
51Guinea-Bissau76,000
52Central African Republic68,000
53Burundi54,000
54Somalia47,000
55Sao Tome and Principe28,000
56Comoros24,000
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