CO2 emissions (kg per 2000 US$ of GDP) - Infrastructure - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators
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Carbon dioxide emissions are those stemming from the burning of fossil fuels and the manufacture of cement. They include carbon dioxide produced during consumption of solid, liquid, and gas fuels and gas flaring. Source: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
| CO2 emissions (kg per 2000 US$ of GDP) - Infrastructure - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2006) |
Rank | Country | Value |
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| 1 |  South Africa | 2,451 |
| 2 | Algeria | 1,870 |
| 3 | Liberia | 1,639 |
| 4 | Nigeria | 1,479 |
| 5 | Guinea-Bissau | 1,426 |
| 6 | Sub-Saharan Africa | 1,407 |
| 7 | Africa | 1,378 |
| 8 | Ghana | 1,365 |
| 9 | North Africa | 1,337 |
| 10 | Egypt | 1,315 |
| 11 | Libya | 1,305 |
| 12 | Seychelles | 1,150 |
| 13 | Mauritania | 1,132 |
| 14 | Benin | 1,098 |
| 15 | Equatorial Guinea | 1,028 |
| 16 | Tunisia | 906.80 |
| 17 | Morocco | 890.94 |
| 18 | Togo | 794.57 |
| 19 | Eritrea | 777.17 |
| 20 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa | 773.52 |
| 21 | Sierra Leone | 767.24 |
| 22 | Kenya | 753.51 |
| 23 | Djibouti | 734.59 |
| 24 | Senegal | 706.22 |
| 25 | Mauritius | 678.81 |
| 26 | Ivory Coast | 656.19 |
| 27 | Madagascar | 621.87 |
| 28 | Gambia | 605.06 |
| 29 | Angola | 597.60 |
| 30 | Swaziland | 592.25 |
| 31 | Sudan | 586.57 |
| 32 | Botswana | 582.01 |
| 33 | Zambia | 569.08 |
| 34 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria | 555.77 |
| 35 | Malawi | 531.53 |
| 36 | Namibia | 531.37 |
| 37 | Ethiopia | 484.88 |
| 38 | Cape Verde | 428.91 |
| 39 | Tanzania | 401.78 |
| 40 | Niger | 400.54 |
| 41 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 392.50 |
| 42 | Comoros | 375.44 |
| 43 | Gabon | 368.09 |
| 44 | Guinea | 364.58 |
| 45 | Republic of the Congo | 346.40 |
| 46 | Rwanda | 313.92 |
| 47 | Mozambique | 292.51 |
| 48 | Cameroon | 292.16 |
| 49 | Uganda | 292.08 |
| 50 | Central African Republic | 261.98 |
| 51 | Burundi | 238.51 |
| 52 | Burkina Faso | 213.07 |
| 53 | Mali | 163.75 |
| 54 | Chad | 142.42 |
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