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CO2 emissions from cement production (thousand metric tons) by country

Carbon dioxide emissions from cement production refer mainly to emissions during cement production. Cement production is a multi-step process and CO2 is actually released from klinker production during the cement production process. The U.S. Department of Energy’s carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)...

Countries reporting
38
Highest
23,190 thousand metric tons
Egypt
Lowest
0 thousand metric tons
Democratic Republic of Congo
Median
311.7 thousand metric tons
Years covered
50
1960–2009
Data points
2,733

What the numbers show

CO2 emissions from cement production (thousand metric tons) is currently reported for 38 countries. The highest value is 23,190 thousand metric tons in Egypt; the lowest is 0 thousand metric tons in Democratic Republic of Congo.

The median across all reporting countries is 311.7 thousand metric tons, and the mean is 1,693 thousand metric tons.

Over the past decade 26 countries rose and 5 fell. The largest increase was in Angola (up 775.0%), and the largest decrease in Guinea (down 100.0%).

CO2 emissions from cement production: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Egypt 23,190 thousand metric tons 2009 up 99.4% volatile
2 Algeria 8,977 thousand metric tons 2009 up 140.0% volatile
3 Morocco 5,985 thousand metric tons 2009 up 59.4% volatile
4 South Africa 5,735 thousand metric tons 2009 up 42.6% rising
5 Tunisia 3,990 thousand metric tons 2009 up 64.4% volatile
6 Libya 2,992 thousand metric tons 2009 up 100.0% volatile
7 Nigeria 2,244 thousand metric tons 2009 up 80.0% volatile
8 Kenya 1,657 thousand metric tons 2009 up 130.6% volatile
9 Senegal 1,496 thousand metric tons 2009 up 200.0% volatile
10 Ethiopia 1,148 thousand metric tons 2009 up 259.8% volatile
11 Ghana 898.41 thousand metric tons 2009 down 3.5% volatile
11 Angola 898.41 thousand metric tons 2009 up 775.0% volatile
13 Tanzania 847.08 thousand metric tons 2009 up 104.4% volatile
14 Benin 748.07 thousand metric tons 2009 up 655.6% volatile
15 Sudan 498.71 thousand metric tons 2009 up 338.7% volatile
16 Mozambique 414.37 thousand metric tons 2009 up 289.7% volatile
17 Togo 399.7 thousand metric tons 2009 up 32.9% volatile
18 Uganda 322.7 thousand metric tons 2009 up 87.2% volatile
18 Cote d'Ivoire 322.7 thousand metric tons 2009 unchanged volatile
20 Zambia 300.69 thousand metric tons 2009 up 100.0% rising
21 Mauritania 249.36 thousand metric tons 2009 up 385.7% volatile
22 Congo 220.02 thousand metric tons 2009 — volatile
23 Zimbabwe 150.35 thousand metric tons 2009 down 69.9% rising
24 Sierra Leone 124.68 thousand metric tons 2009 up 466.7% volatile
25 Malawi 121.01 thousand metric tons 2009 up 32.0% rising
25 Madagascar 121.01 thousand metric tons 2009 up 450.0% volatile
27 Gabon 113.68 thousand metric tons 2009 up 29.2% volatile
28 Rwanda 51.34 thousand metric tons 2009 up 55.6% volatile
29 Liberia 47.67 thousand metric tons 2009 up 550.0% volatile
30 Eritrea 22 thousand metric tons 2009 unchanged falling
31 Niger 18.34 thousand metric tons 2009 up 25.0% volatile
32 Burkina Faso 14.67 thousand metric tons 2009 down 83.3% volatile
33 Mali 0 thousand metric tons 2009 — volatile
33 Guinea 0 thousand metric tons 2009 down 100.0% volatile
33 Somalia 0 thousand metric tons 2009 — volatile
33 Cape Verde 0 thousand metric tons 2009 — volatile
33 Namibia 0 thousand metric tons 2009 — volatile
33 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 thousand metric tons 2009 down 100.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
CO2 emissions from cement production (thousand metric tons)
Unit
thousand metric tons
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
57 places, 2,733 data points, 1960–2009
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Carbon dioxide emissions from cement production refer mainly to emissions during cement production. Cement production is a multi-step process and CO2 is actually released from klinker production during the cement production process. The U.S. Department of Energy’s carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) calculates annual anthropogenic emissions from data on fossil fuel consumption (from the United Nations Statistics Division’s World Energy Data Set) and world cement manufacturing (from the U.S. Bureau of Mine’s Cement Manufacturing Data Set). Carbon dioxide emissions, often calculated and reported as elemental carbon, were converted to actual carbon dioxide mass by multiplying them by 3.664 (the ratio of the mass of carbon to that of carbon dioxide). Although estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions are probably accurate within 10 percent (as calculated from global average file chemistry and use), country estimates may have larger error bounds. Trends estimated from a consistent time series tend to be more accurate than individual values. Each year the CDIAC recalculates the entire time series since 1949, incorporating recent findings and corrections. Estimates exclude fuels supplied to ships and aircraft in international transport because of the difficulty of apportioning he fuels among benefitting countries. The ratio of carbon dioxide per unit of energy shows carbon intensity, which is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted as a result of using one unit of energy in the process of production.