TROPICAL RAINFORESTS

Graph: Carbon dioxide emissions for Kuwait

Includes carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion, cement manufacture, and gas flaring, but excludes emissions from Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF).

Chart: Carbon emissions per capita for Kuwait (metric tons of carbon) Table of annual carbon emissions and per capita emissions for Kuwait . All emission estimates are expressed in thousand metric tons of carbon. Per capita emission estimates are expressed in metric tons of carbon. YEAR Carbon emissions Per capita emissions 1946 670 N/A 1947 1842 N/A 1948 92 N/A 1949 290 N/A 1950 105 0.69 1951 32 0.19 1952 -119 -0.68 1953 -14 -0.08 1954 383 2 1955 504 2.53 1956 284 1.36 1957 600 2.73 1958 1007 4.29 1959 1037 4.08 1960 2128 7.66 1961 2722 8.87 1962 3897 11.43 1963 4643 12.22 1964 6909 16.3 1965 9659 20.51 1966 9586 18.36 1967 6938 12.05 1968 6120 9.67 1969 7317 10.6 1970 6829 9.18 1971 7401 9.3 1972 7536 8.92 1973 6611 7.39 1974 5271 5.57 1975 4589 4.56 1976 5038 4.69 1977 4696 4.09 1978 5727 4.68 1979 4818 3.7 1980 6729 4.89 1981 6876 4.77 1982 5773 3.84 1983 5893 3.75 1984 7736 4.72 1985 7952 4.62 1986 9632 5.28 1987 8582 4.42 1988 8976 4.37 1989 9786 4.61 1990 11114 5.19 1991 2944 1.4 1992 5442 3.83 1993 8592 5.88 1994 10010 6.18 1995 14512 8.05 1996 13623 7.19 1997 16976 8.57 1998 17295 8.52 1999 17999 7.98 2000 19391 8.75 2001 18398 7.97 2002 17448 7.21 2003 19979 7.84 2004 22181 8.29 2005 24510 9.97 2006 23618 9.35 2007 23465 0 2008 25805 0 All data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Data excludes emissions from land use and agriculture (including deforestation). CITATION: Tom Boden, Gregg Marland, Robert J. Andres. Global CO2 Emissions from Fossil-Fuel Burning, Cement Manufacture, and Gas Flaring: 1751-2006. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Oak Ridge, Tennessee. April 29, 2009. doi 10.3334/CDIAC/00001

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