Global, Regional, and National CO2 Emissions

NORTH KOREA

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The total fossil fuel CO2 emissions for North Korea, or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, have averaged 11.2% growth from 1950-93, reaching 71 million metric tons of carbon. Since 1993, fossil-fuel CO2 emissions have declined almost 70% to 22 million metric tons of carbon. As the world's 16th largest producer of coal, it is no surprise North Korea's fossil-fuel CO2 emissions record is dominated by emissions from coal burning. Coal consumption accounted for 92% of the 2004 CO2 emission total. With no natural gas usage, another 4.3% currently comes from liquid petroleum consumption, and the remainder is from cement manufacture. Recent estimates of per capita emissions (0.95 metric tons of carbon for 2004) from North Korea are below the global average (1.23).

CITE AS: Marland, G., T.A. Boden, and R.J. Andres. 2007. Global, Regional, and National CO2 Emissions. In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A.
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