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 382740 268361 80432 13766 19720 460 0.35
2004 364755 255103 77920 13533 17680 519 0.34
2003 346022 238562 76535 13643 16728 554 0.32
2002 332594 227659 75682 12864 15640 749 0.32
2001 321666 219991 74622 11891 14280 880 0.31
2000 316804 215064 75996 11974 12920 849 0.31
1999 309269 209652 75008 11549 12240 820 0.31
1998 290387 195142 69791 12990 11560 904 0.3
1997 282753 193653 64684 12561 10880 974 0.3
1996 271171 184915 64194 10848 10200 1014 0.29
1995 248823 171913 56923 10658 8432 898 0.27
1994 233805 164825 52207 7915 7752 1107 0.26
1993 220126 155389 49041 7368 7318 1010 0.25
1992 211233 147187 48834 7439 6800 973 0.24
1991 198830 140313 43012 6431 6936 2138 0.23
1990 185556 130061 40380 5758 6664 2694 0.22
1989 178835 125363 39160 5054 6256 3003 0.21
1988 164168 117169 35275 4150 5535 2039 0.2
1987 152061 107990 33747 3487 5029 1809 0.19
1986 143099 101045 32935 2814 4950 1355 0.18
1985 133283 93819 31383 1965 4492 1625 0.17
1984 121590 85934 28605 1684 3948 1419 0.16
1983 117555 84787 26710 1431 3448 1178 0.16
1982 108360 77607 25463 1190 3060 1041 0.15
1981 101871 73266 24127 787 2823 867 0.14
1980 94798 68966 22427 679 2407 318 0.14
1979 90139 64055 22168 827 2484 605 0.13
1978 86366 62235 20182 748 2660 541 0.13
1977 85813 63547 18425 677 2592 571 0.13
1976 71686 50966 17055 626 2543 496 0.11
1975 68608 48678 16699 473 2208 549 0.11
1974 63104 43942 16377 371 1943 471 0.1
1973 60694 41580 16360 319 2041 395 0.1
1972 58961 40544 15614 329 2143 331 0.1
1971 55756 38309 14739 296 2026 387 0.1
1970 52869 37277 13109 252 1842 388 0.1
1969 52018 37222 12377 272 1803 344 0.1
1968 51094 37360 11531 205 1624 374 0.1
1967 46978 35933 8924 133 1590 397 0.09
1966 46848 35296 9737 85 1503 227 0.09
1965 45267 35136 8410 77 1439 205 0.09
1964 41088 31958 7675 6 1318 130 0.08
1963 42025 33315 7398 3 1272 37 0.09
1962 39130 31156 6792 3 1168 12 0.08
1961 35567 28628 5816 1 1121 0 0.08
1960 32888 26514 5307 0 1067 0 0.07
1959 29955 23993 5018 0 943 0 0.07
1958 28314 22876 4597 0 841 0 0.07
1957 27089 21977 4338 0 774 0 0.07
1956 24146 19659 3806 0 681 0 0.06
1955 23323 19223 3480 0 620 0 0.06
1954 21493 18282 2604 0 608 0 0.06
1953 20440 17821 2096 0 522 0 0.05
1952 20062 17509 2064 0 489 0 0.05
1951 19032 16448 2143 0 442 0 0.05
1950 18174 15858 1955 0 361 0 0.05
1949 19062 16387 2384 0 290 . .
1948 17440 15574 1651 0 215 . .
1947 17343 15585 1557 0 200 . .
1946 17215 15180 1768 0 268 . .
1945 17512 15322 1894 0 296 . .
1944 15408 13724 1402 0 282 . .
1943 14971 13401 1278 0 292 . .
1942 17101 15461 1338 0 302 . .
1941 17120 15478 1353 0 289 . .
1940 15747 15438 309 0 0 . .
1939 16251 14587 1664 0 0 . .
1938 16504 14889 1616 0 0 . .
1937 14995 13152 1688 0 155 . .
1936 12944 11878 934 0 133 . .
1935 13138 12091 926 0 121 . .
1934 12524 11587 833 0 104 . .
1933 11234 10395 754 0 85 . .
1932 11439 10586 773 0 81 . .
1931 12349 11407 862 0 80 . .
1930 13498 12504 916 0 78 . .
1929 13323 12302 944 0 78 . .
1928 12800 11842 881 0 77 . .
1927 13242 11600 1642 0 0 . .
1926 12512 11031 1481 0 0 . .
1925 12595 10981 1615 0 0 . .
1924 12717 11124 1593 0 0 . .
1923 11862 10326 1536 0 0 . .
1922 11428 9987 1441 0 0 . .
1921 11576 10140 1436 0 0 . .
1920 10796 9435 1360 0 0 . .
1919 13300 11887 1413 0 0 . .
1918 11962 10886 1076 0 0 . .
1917 10661 9567 1094 0 0 . .
1916 10279 9064 1216 0 0 . .
1915 10193 8985 1208 0 0 . .
1914 9801 8648 1152 0 0 . .
1913 9688 8514 1174 0 0 . .
1912 8809 7725 1084 0 0 . .
1911 7726 6680 1046 0 0 . .
1910 7257 6328 928 0 0 . .
1909 7220 6235 985 0 0 . .
1908 7437 6708 729 0 0 . .
1907 6500 5856 644 0 0 . .
1906 5825 5139 686 0 0 . .
1905 5042 4422 620 0 0 . .
1904 4931 4316 615 0 0 . .
1903 4412 3907 505 0 0 . .
1902 4333 3900 434 0 0 . .
1901 3929 3485 444 0 0 . .
1900 3562 3214 348 0 0 . .
1899 2999 2676 323 0 0 . .
1898 2721 2421 301 0 0 . .
1897 2456 2136 320 0 0 . .
1896 2269 2021 247 0 0 . .
1895 2097 1858 238 0 0 . .
1894 1674 1481 193 0 0 . .
1893 1641 1346 296 0 0 . .
1892 1559 1333 227 0 0 . .
1891 1419 1223 196 0 0 . .
1890 1318 1139 179 0 0 . .
1889 1195 1022 173 0 0 . .
1888 1016 898 119 0 0 . .
1887 915 822 94 0 0 . .
1886 826 729 97 0 0 . .
1885 736 680 56 0 0 . .
1884 815 734 81 0 0 . .
1883 732 691 41 0 0 . .
1882 656 594 62 0 0 . .
1881 552 524 27 0 0 . .
1880 566 536 30 0 0 . .
1879 506 486 20 0 0 . .
1878 533 533 0 0 0 . .
1866 193 193 0 0 0 . .
1865 171 171 0 0 0 . .
1864 174 174 0 0 0 . .
1863 184 184 0 0 0 . .
1862 166 166 0 0 0 . .
1861 150 150 0 0 0 . .
1860 194 194 0 0 0 . .
1859 192 192 0 0 0 . .
1858 119 119 0 0 0 . .
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