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



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Carbon dioxide emissions from solid fuel consumption refer mainly to emissions from use of coal as an energy source and from secondary fuels derived from hard and soft coal (e.g. coke-oven coke). 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 solid fuel consumption (thousand metric tons) - Infrastructure - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2006)

Rank

Country

Value

1Sub-Saharan Africa144,852,900
2Africa138,884,529
3South Africa96,887,000
4North Africa6,460,687
5Morocco4,014,000
6Zimbabwe2,405,000
7Egypt807,000
8Algeria759,000
9Botswana748,000
10Mauritius350,000
11Democratic Republic of the Congo287,000
12Niger133,000
13Senegal121,000
14Swaziland105,000
15Zambia104,000
16Kenya87,000
17Tanzania58,000
18Namibia38,000
19Malawi36,000
20Nigeria8,000
21Madagascar7,000
22Burundi2,000
23Angola0
24Benin0
25Burkina Faso0
26Republic of the Congo0
27Comoros0
28Cape Verde0
29Djibouti0
30Central African Republic0
31Eritrea0
32Ethiopia0
33Gabon0
34Ghana0
35Mali0
36Mauritania0
37Rwanda0
38Sudan0
39Mozambique0
40Sierra Leone0
41Somalia0
42Libya0
43Sao Tome and Principe0
44Guinea-Bissau0
45Seychelles0
46Chad0
47Togo0
48Equatorial Guinea0
49Ivory Coast0
50Uganda0
51Liberia0
52Gambia0
53Guinea0
54Tunisia0
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