CO2 Emission dataset by Gapminder
co2_emissions_tonnes_per_person
name: CO2 per capita
description: Per capita carbon dioxide emissions from the fossil fuel consumption, cement production and gas flaring (metric tons of CO2 per person).
yearly_co2_emissions_1000_tonnes
name: Yearly CO2 emissions
description: Total carbon dioxide emissions from the fossil fuel consumption, cement production and gas flaring during the given year (1000 metric tons of CO2).
consumption_co2_emissions_1000_tonnes
name: Yearly consumption CO2 emissions
description: Total carbon dioxide emissions from the fossil fuel consumption, cement production and gas flaring, minus export, plus import during the given year (1000 metric tons of CO2).
consumption_emissions_tonnes_per_person
name: Consumption CO2 per capita
description: Per capita carbon dioxide emissions from the fossil fuel consumption, cement production and gas flaring, minus export, plus import during the given year (metric tons of CO2 per person).
cumulative_co2_emissions_tonnes
name: Cumulative CO2 emissions
description: Cumulative carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel consumption, cement production and gas flaring for the period between 1751 and the relevant year (metric tons of CO2).
Current version: 20161111
merge and split certain countries to match Gapminder's geo domain. More detains in #1
first version of dataset
The CO2 per capita time series in the CDIAC dataset starts at 1950, since "population estimates were not available [...] before 1950" to CDIAC. Most likely they use the UN population estimates. Note: CDIAC Total CO2 emissions time series does go back to 1751. The CO2 per capita time series in this dataset starts at 1751, since Gapminder uses its own population estimates referenced above, which contains estimates back to 1086 for certain countries. CO2 per capita is calculated and included when both Total CO2 emissions (CDIAC) and population (Gapminder) estimates are available for a country in a certain year.