Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from Power Industry

A measure of annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from electricity and heat generation (subsector of the energy sector) including IPCC 2006 code 1.A.1.a. The measure is standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values using the Global Warming Potential (GWP) factors of IPCC's 5th Assessment Report (AR5). Reported as: Energy.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
194
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Joint Research Centre, European Commission

    EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG Database, Joint Research Centre (JRC) - European Commission, uri: https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_ghg2024, publisher: JRC European Commission, date published: 2024

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    International Energy Agency

    International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_ghg2024, publisher: JRC European Commission, date published: 2024

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan20242.91Mt CO2e
Albania20240Mt CO2e
Algeria202444.67Mt CO2e
Angola20243.78Mt CO2e
Antigua and Barbuda20240.18Mt CO2e
Argentina202439.12Mt CO2e
Armenia20241.58Mt CO2e
Aruba20240.28Mt CO2e
Australia2024163.10Mt CO2e
Austria20249.95Mt CO2e

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