Carbon dioxide emissions, total (thousand metric tons) - MDGs - Millenium Development Goals - 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. 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.
Carbon dioxide emissions, total (thousand metric tons) - MDGs - Millenium Development Goals - African Development Indicators (2006)

Rank

Country

Value
1Africa1,065,172,000
2Sub-Saharan Africa641,720,000
3North Africa423,452,000
4South Africa414,649,000
5Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa227,071,000
6Egypt166,800,000
7Algeria132,715,000
8Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria129,809,000
9Nigeria97,262,000
10Libya55,495,000
11Morocco45,316,000
12Tunisia23,126,000
13Kenya12,151,000
14Zimbabwe11,081,000
15Sudan10,813,000
16Angola10,582,000
17Ghana9,240,000
18Ivory Coast6,882,000
19Ethiopia6,006,000
20Tanzania5,372,000
21Botswana4,770,000
22Equatorial Guinea4,356,000
23Senegal4,261,000
24Mauritius3,850,000
25Cameroon3,645,000
26Benin3,109,000
27Madagascar2,834,000
28Namibia2,831,000
29Uganda2,706,000
30Zambia2,471,000
31Democratic Republic of the Congo2,200,000
32Gabon2,057,000
33Mozambique2,039,000
34Mauritania1,665,000
35Republic of the Congo1,463,000
36Guinea1,360,000
37Togo1,221,000
38Malawi1,049,000
39Swaziland1,016,000
40Sierra Leone994,000
41Niger935,000
42Rwanda796,000
43Burkina Faso788,000
44Liberia785,000
45Seychelles744,000
46Mali568,000
47Eritrea554,000
48Djibouti488,000
49Chad396,000
50Gambia334,000
51Cape Verde308,000
52Guinea-Bissau279,000
53Central African Republic249,000
54Burundi198,000
55Somalia172,000
56Sao Tome and Principe103,000
57Comoros88,000
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