Transportation Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions By Country 1990-2018

World Resource Institute's Climate Watch data provides greenhouse gas emissions for the transportation sector across 194 countries and the European Union. It covers the period from 1990 to 2018, measuring emissions of six major gases in CO2 equivalents. The data is aggregated and published by the World Bank's Country Climate and Development Report initiative.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in transportation sector emissions over the 1990-2018 time range for individual countries.
• Compare per-country transportation emissions levels using the CO2 equivalent metric.
• Model correlations between transportation emissions and other economic or development indicators at the national level.
• Benchmark a country's transportation emissions against the dataset's 194-country and EU coverage.

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 a standardized CO2 equivalent metric.

Limitations

• Data ends in 2018, creating a significant temporal gap for current analysis.
• Specific row count, column details, and sample data are unavailable for verification.
• Emissions from land-use change and agriculture are sourced separately (FAO), which may affect cross-sector consistency.

Provenance

Source

World Resource Institute (WRI) Climate Watch Historical Emissions data.

Collection Method

Aggregated from multiple sources including FAO for land-use/agriculture and OECD/IEA for fuel combustion, with non-CO2 gases converted using IPCC AR4 GWP values.

Time Range

1990-2018

Freshness

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Geography

194 countries and the European Union.