Total annual emissions of six Kyoto Protocol gases from energy, industry, waste, and agriculture sectors, standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent per capita. The World Development Indicators team at the World Bank compiled this data, which excludes emissions from Land Use Change and Forestry due to measurement uncertainties.
Use Cases
- Benchmark national per_capita emissions against regional averages or climate targets using the standardized CO2 equivalent metric.
- Analyze temporal trends in total GHG emissions per capita to assess the effectiveness of sectoral climate policies.
- Correlate per capita emissions data with economic development indicators to study the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis.
- Model future emissions scenarios by using historical per capita values as a baseline for population and economic growth projections.
Strengths
- Covers six major greenhouse gases defined by the Kyoto Protocol.
- Provides standardized carbon dioxide equivalent values for cross-gas comparison.
- Excludes LULUCF fluxes, which have higher uncertainty, for a more consistent core emissions measure.
Limitations
- Exclusion of Land Use Change and Forestry emissions limits analysis of total national GHG budgets.
- Uncertainty regarding data completeness, update frequency, and the specific methodology for per capita calculation.
- Lack of visible column details prevents assessment of granularity, such as sub-sector breakdowns or confidence intervals.
Provenance
- Source
- World Development Indicators (World Bank)
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from national and international sources, standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Likely global country-level coverage, but specific spatial coverage is unknown.