Belgium CO2 emissions data for 2016

Key questions

How much total CO₂ did Belgium emit in 2016?

Belgium emitted 99.62 million tonnes of CO₂ in 2016. This represents 0.28% of the world's entire CO₂ emissions that year.

What was the CO₂ per capita of Belgium in 2016?

In 2016, Belgium emitted 8.8 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person. This is on a total population of 11316837.

Breakdown

The total CO₂ emissions of 99.62 million tonnes emitted by Belgium in 2016 come from the following sources:

Source CO₂ emissions (million tonnes) CO₂ emissions per capita (tonnes)
Oil 47.12 4.16
Gas 34.37 3.04
Coal 13.54 1.2
Cement 2.44 0.22
Flaring 0.08 0.01

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