World Development Indicators provides a dataset on total annual carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per capita, excluding fluxes from Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry. It covers emissions from agriculture, energy, waste, and industrial sectors. The data source is the World Bank.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in per capita CO2e emissions over time for cross-country comparisons.
- Model the relationship between economic development indicators and the emissions_per_capita metric.
- Benchmark national performance against regional averages using the standardized CO2e values.
Strengths
- Data is standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) values for consistent comparison.
- Focus on specific sectors (agriculture, energy, waste, industrial) provides defined emission sources.
- Excludes LULUCF fluxes, which have larger uncertainties, improving reliability for core sectors.
Limitations
- Exact row count, time range, and geographic coverage are unknown.
- Exclusion of LULUCF may limit analysis for countries where land-use change is a major emissions source.
- Data freshness and update frequency are unspecified.
Provenance
- Source
- World Development Indicators (World Bank)
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