Costa Rica CO2 emissions data for 2016
Key questions
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How much total CO₂ did Costa Rica emit in 2016?
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Costa Rica emitted 7.86 million tonnes of CO₂ in 2016.
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 2016?
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In 2016, Costa Rica emitted 1.59 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person.
This is on a total population of 4945205.
Breakdown
The total CO₂ emissions of 7.86 million tonnes emitted by Costa Rica in 2016 come from the following sources:
| Source |
CO₂ emissions (million tonnes) |
CO₂ emissions per capita (tonnes) |
| Oil |
7.38 |
1.49 |
| Gas |
0.0 |
0.0 |
| Coal |
0.0 |
0.0 |
| Cement |
0.47 |
0.1 |
| Flaring |
0.0 |
0.0 |
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