Historical CO2 emissions by country and sector

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This dataset contains world CO2 emissions 1850 - 2023 data from World Resources Institute. Follow datasource.kapsarc.org for timely data to advance energy economics research.

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Dataset Identifier
historical_co2_emissions_by_country_and_sector_cait
Downloads
124
Themes
Climate
Keywords
Emissions, CO2, CO2 Emission
Modified
11 June 2025 13:52
Publisher
World Resources Institute
Reference
https://www.climatewatchdata.org/data-explorer/historical-emissions?historical-emissions-data-sources=climate-watch&historical-emissions-gases=co2&historical-emissions-regions=All%20Selected&historical-emissions-sectors=All%20Selected&page=1
Attributions
CAIT data: Climate Watch. 2020. GHG Emissions. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. Available at: https://www.climatewatchdata.org/ghg-emissions., PIK data: Gtschow, Johannes; Jeffery, Louise; Gieseke, Robert; Gebel, Ronja (2017): The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series (1850-2014). V. 1.1. GFZ Data Services. http://doi.org/10.5880/PIK.2017.001., UNFCCC data: UNFCCC. 2019. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Data - Detailed data by Party. Accessed October 5. http://di.unfccc.int/detailed_data_by_party., GCP data: Global Carbon Project (2019) Carbon budget and trends 2019. www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget, published on 4 December 2019, along with any other original peer-reviewed papers and data sources as appropriate.
Last checked date
11 June 2025
Country
World
Source copyrights
https://www.climatewatchdata.org/about/permissions
Data classification
Public
Discontinued Data
No
Publisher Periodicity
Annually
Expected next release
10 June 2026
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Last processing
11 June 2025 13:52 (metadata)
11 June 2025 13:52 (data)

DCAT

Accrual periodicity
Annually
Temporal
1850 - 2023
Temporal coverage start date
31 December 1849 20:53
Temporal coverage end date
30 November 2019 21:00

Semantic Metadata

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Year
               
No description available for this field.
           
               
                   
                                                  Name (identifier)                                                                         
year
                       		                   
                   
                                                  Type                                                                         
date
                       		                   
                                      
                                                  Sample                                                                         
                       		                   
               
       
   
       
Sector
       
           
               
               
No description available for this field.
           
               
                   
                                                  Name (identifier)                                                                         
sector
                       		                   
                   
                                                  Type                                                                         
text
                       		                   
                                      
                                                  Sample                                                                         
                       		                   
               
       
   
       
Value
       
           
               
               
No description available for this field.
           
               
                   
                                                  Name (identifier)                                                                         
value
                       		                   
                   
                                                  Type                                                                         
decimal
                       		                   
                                      
                                                  Sample                                                                         
                       		                   
               
       
   
       
Code
       
           
               
               
No description available for this field.
           
               
                   
                                                  Name (identifier)                                                                         
code
                       		                   
                   
                                                  Type                                                                         
text
                       		                   
                                      
                                                  Sample                                                                         
                       		                   
               
       
   
       
Country/ state
       
           
               
               
No description available for this field.
           
               
                   
                                                  Name (identifier)                                                                         
country_state
                       		                   
                   
                                                  Type                                                                         
text
                       		                   
                                      
                                                  Sample                                                                         
                       		                   
               
       
   
       
Source
       
           
               
               
No description available for this field.
           
               
                   
                                                  Name (identifier)                                                                         
source
                       		                   
                   
                                                  Type                                                                         
text
                       		                   
                                      
                                                  Sample                                                                         
                       		                   
               
       
   
       
Gas
       
           
               
               
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gas
                       		                   
                   
                                                  Type                                                                         
text
                       		                   
                                      
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