Costa Rica CO2 emissions data for 2009
Key questions
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How much total CO₂ did Costa Rica emit in 2009?
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Costa Rica emitted 7.75 million tonnes of CO₂ in 2009.
This represents 0.02% of the world's entire CO₂ emissions that year.
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What was the CO₂ per capita of Costa Rica in 2009?
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In 2009, Costa Rica emitted 1.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person.
This is on a total population of 4563131.
Breakdown
The total CO₂ emissions of 7.75 million tonnes emitted by Costa Rica in 2009 come from the following sources:
| Source |
CO₂ emissions (million tonnes) |
CO₂ emissions per capita (tonnes) |
| Oil |
6.91 |
1.51 |
| Gas |
0.0 |
0.0 |
| Coal |
0.01 |
0.0 |
| Cement |
0.83 |
0.18 |
| Flaring |
0.0 |
0.0 |
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