CO2 Emissions / Historical

 

Global Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions

Since 1751 roughly 321 billion tons of carbon have been released to the atmosphere from the consumption of fossil fuels and cement production. Half of these emissions have occurred since the mid 1970s.

The 2005 global fossil-fuel carbon emission estimate, 7985 million metric tons of carbon, represents an all-time high and a 3.8% increase from 2004.

Globally, liquid and solid fuels accounted for 76.7% of the emissions from fossil-fuel burning and cement production in 2005. Combustion of gas fuels (e.g., natural gas) accounted for 18.6% (1484 million metric tons of carbon) of the total emissions from fossil fuels in 2005 and reflects a gradually increasing global utilization of natural gas.

Emissions from cement production (315 million metric tons of carbon in 2005) have more than doubled since the mid 1970s and now represent 3.9% of global CO2 releases from fossil-fuel burning and cement production. Gas flaring, which accounted for roughly 2% of global emissions during the 1970s, now accounts for less than 1% of global fossil-fuel releases.

Global and national data are from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)

[ Credits: Marland, G., T.A. Boden, and R.J. Andres. 2008. Global, Regional, and National CO2 Emissions. In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A.]

Note, due to the historical dimension of this data, some political changes must be considered. For example, three data sets are relevant to get a complete picture about Germany: Germany (1972-1945 & 1990-2005) , Former German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany (both 1945-1990). Similar applies to Korea, Vietnam, USSR, Czechoslovakia and other countries.

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Note: global data is measured in million metric tons and national emissions in thousand metric tons, per capita emissions are in metric tons. The factor to convert tons of carbon into tons of carbon dioxyde is 3.664.




Year Total CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels (metric million tons of C) CO2 emissions from gas fuel consumption CO2 emissions from liquid fuel consumption CO2 emissions from solid fuel consumption CO2 emissions from cement production CO2 emissions from gas flaring Per capita CO2 emissions (metric tons of carbon; after 1949 only)
2005 1514126 1115705 233213 24000 141209 0 1.16
2004 1374810 990975 232395 19520 131920 0 1.06
2003 1164997 839040 186864 21850 117243 0 0.9
2002 989704 700896 170308 19900 98600 0 0.77
2001 933382 663269 161882 18329 89901 0 0.73
2000 910950 654314 159124 16320 81192 0 0.72
1999 888516 649327 146368 14894 77928 0 0.7
1998 848091 626825 134586 13783 72896 0 0.68
1997 897615 680939 135028 12052 69595 0 0.72
1996 911600 707670 124991 12137 66802 0 0.74
1995 872842 680619 115918 11582 64724 0 0.72
1994 807460 633805 105031 11345 57280 0 0.67
1993 760580 593453 107345 9751 50032 0 0.64
1992 721435 563395 107869 8253 41918 0 0.61
1991 687651 546144 98753 8400 34355 0 0.59
1990 654816 526991 91268 7997 28560 0 0.57
1989 651085 522004 93085 7866 28130 0 0.58
1988 640129 514851 89325 7454 28500 0 0.58
1987 596928 481788 83451 7260 24429 0 0.55
1986 559200 451611 78435 7192 21961 0 0.52
1985 531700 432043 73500 6774 19383 0 0.51
1984 490231 396295 69980 6612 16467 877 0.47
1983 451066 360848 68371 6397 14722 729 0.44
1982 427619 341132 66755 6250 12794 689 0.42
1981 399263 314140 66309 6656 11424 734 0.4
1980 403126 313284 70703 7456 10861 822 0.41
1979 412840 322033 72340 7581 10050 836 0.43
1978 404083 313932 73358 7174 8873 747 0.42
1977 363248 279372 69370 6342 7568 595 0.39
1976 325325 248518 64296 5286 6705 520 0.35
1975 311459 247494 54729 4632 4084 520 0.34
1974 268531 211860 48884 3941 3400 446 0.3
1973 263216 213946 42395 3130 3400 345 0.3
1972 253095 210391 36763 2533 3128 279 0.3
1971 238150 201030 31826 1958 3121 216 0.28
1970 209518 181768 24891 1502 1357 0 0.26
1969 157442 136811 18245 1026 1359 0 0.2
1968 127900 112664 13278 733 1225 0 0.17
1967 118166 104715 11599 764 1087 0 0.16
1966 142592 128237 12158 701 1496 0 0.19
1965 129823 118199 9552 576 1496 0 0.18
1964 119172 109621 7568 554 1428 0 0.17
1963 119110 110864 6351 534 1360 0 0.17
1962 120110 112448 5940 634 1088 0 0.18
1961 150579 142626 6096 769 1088 0 0.23
1960 212947 204292 6275 544 1836 0 0.33
1959 196860 189841 5199 152 1669 0 0.31
1958 143418 138722 3373 58 1265 0 0.23
1957 69977 66555 2453 36 933 0 0.11
1956 59058 55967 2209 13 869 0 0.1
1955 52109 50009 1479 9 612 0 0.09
1954 44019 42474 912 8 626 0 0.07
1953 36607 35553 521 6 528 0 0.06
1952 35002 34244 365 4 389 0 0.06
1951 27769 27334 256 2 176 0 0.05
1950 21469 21187 169 4 109 0 0.04
1949 16187 16027 99 0 61 . .
1948 6510 6421 61 0 27 . .
1947 9167 9067 44 0 57 . .
1946 8536 8449 59 0 28 . .
1945 13742 13590 147 0 6 . .
1944 26710 26381 168 0 160 . .
1943 26557 26088 260 0 209 . .
1942 31078 30180 684 0 214 . .
1941 29371 28654 555 0 162 . .
1940 23499 22921 490 0 89 . .
1939 18329 17934 322 0 73 . .
1938 15094 14863 228 0 3 . .
1937 16533 16227 162 0 143 . .
1936 17751 17472 139 0 140 . .
1935 15728 15558 118 0 51 . .
1934 13448 13339 77 0 32 . .
1933 11522 11413 73 0 37 . .
1932 10535 10450 59 0 26 . .
1931 10988 10905 51 0 32 . .
1930 10350 10284 42 0 24 . .
1929 9776 9748 3 0 25 . .
1928 9311 9296 3 0 13 . .
1927 9150 9148 3 0 0 . .
1926 8076 8074 2 0 0 . .
1925 9067 9067 0 0 0 . .
1924 9578 9578 0 0 0 . .
1923 8775 8775 0 0 0 . .
1922 7269 7269 0 0 0 . .
1921 6902 6902 0 0 0 . .
1920 7306 7306 0 0 0 . .
1919 6620 6620 0 0 0 . .
1918 5743 5743 0 0 0 . .
1917 5418 5418 0 0 0 . .
1916 4903 4903 0 0 0 . .
1915 4391 4391 0 0 0 . .
1914 4123 4123 0 0 0 . .
1913 2936 2936 0 0 0 . .
1912 2671 2671 0 0 0 . .
1911 7600 7600 0 0 0 . .
1910 5117 5117 0 0 0 . .
1909 5687 5687 0 0 0 . .
1908 6204 6204 0 0 0 . .
1907 4596 4596 0 0 0 . .
1906 4670 4670 0 0 0 . .
1905 627 627 0 0 0 . .
1904 570 570 0 0 0 . .
1903 536 536 0 0 0 . .
1902 26 26 0 0 0 . .
1899 26 26 0 0 0 . .
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