Transportation Sector CO2 Emissions by Country 1990-2018

1990-2018 data on CO2 equivalent emissions from the transportation sector for 194 countries and the European Union. The dataset is derived from the World Resource Institute's Climate Watch and aggregates emissions from most major sources, converting non-CO2 gases using IPCC global warming potentials. It is published by the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR).

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in transportation emissions over time for individual countries using the 1990-2018 time series.
• Compare per-country transportation sector contributions to total national GHG inventories using the country-level data.
• Model the relationship between economic development and transportation emissions using the 194-country spatial coverage.
• Benchmark national transportation emission intensities by normalizing the Mt CO2 eq data against other sectoral datasets.

Strengths

• Covers 194 countries and the European Union.
• Provides a 29-year time series from 1990 to 2018.
• Includes emissions for six major greenhouse gases converted to CO2 equivalents.

Limitations

• Data ends in 2018, lacking recent years.
• Specific column names and granularity (e.g., sub-sector breakdown) are unknown.
• Row count and update frequency are unspecified.

Provenance

Source

World Resource Institute's Climate Watch Historical Emission data.

Collection Method

Aggregated from several sources including FAO 2020 for land-use/agriculture and OECD/IEA 2020 for fuel combustion.

Time Range

1990-2018

Geography

194 countries and the European Union.