Data
Fossil carbon dioxide emissions, world (Global Carbon Budget)
Carbon dioxide released each year since 1959 by burning fossil fuels, making cement and other industrial processes, minus the carbon dioxide that cement takes back up as it ages. This is the Global Carbon Budget's headline fossil emissions value.
Latest value
37.8Gt CO₂/yr
World, 2024. Version 2025 v1.0.
Fossil carbon dioxide emissions, world (Global Carbon Budget) (billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year)
Show as a table
| Period | Value (Gt CO₂/yr) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 8.8 | final |
| 1960 | 9.3 | final |
| 1961 | 9.4 | final |
| 1962 | 9.7 | final |
| 1963 | 10.2 | final |
| 1964 | 10.8 | final |
| 1965 | 11.2 | final |
| 1966 | 11.8 | final |
| 1967 | 12.2 | final |
| 1968 | 12.8 | final |
| 1969 | 13.7 | final |
| 1970 | 14.8 | final |
| 1971 | 15.4 | final |
| 1972 | 16.1 | final |
| 1973 | 17.0 | final |
| 1974 | 16.9 | final |
| 1975 | 16.9 | final |
| 1976 | 17.7 | final |
| 1977 | 18.2 | final |
| 1978 | 18.9 | final |
| 1979 | 19.4 | final |
| 1980 | 19.2 | final |
| 1981 | 18.7 | final |
| 1982 | 18.6 | final |
| 1983 | 18.7 | final |
| 1984 | 19.3 | final |
| 1985 | 20.0 | final |
| 1986 | 20.3 | final |
| 1987 | 20.9 | final |
| 1988 | 21.7 | final |
| 1989 | 22.0 | final |
| 1990 | 22.5 | final |
| 1991 | 23.0 | final |
| 1992 | 22.3 | final |
| 1993 | 22.5 | final |
| 1994 | 22.7 | final |
| 1995 | 23.3 | final |
| 1996 | 24.0 | final |
| 1997 | 24.1 | final |
| 1998 | 24.0 | final |
| 1999 | 24.5 | final |
| 2000 | 25.2 | final |
| 2001 | 25.4 | final |
| 2002 | 25.9 | final |
| 2003 | 27.3 | final |
| 2004 | 28.2 | final |
| 2005 | 29.2 | final |
| 2006 | 30.2 | final |
| 2007 | 31.0 | final |
| 2008 | 31.6 | final |
| 2009 | 31.0 | final |
| 2010 | 32.8 | final |
| 2011 | 33.9 | final |
| 2012 | 34.3 | final |
| 2013 | 34.6 | final |
| 2014 | 34.8 | final |
| 2015 | 34.7 | final |
| 2016 | 34.7 | final |
| 2017 | 35.3 | final |
| 2018 | 36.0 | final |
| 2019 | 36.3 | final |
| 2020 | 34.4 | final |
| 2021 | 36.0 | final |
| 2022 | 36.7 | final |
| 2023 | 37.3 | final |
| 2024 | 37.8 | final |
Where it comes from
- Producer
- Global Carbon Project · Global Carbon Budget 2025: global sources and sinks of carbon dioxide
- Version
- 2025 v1.0
- Fetched
- 2026-10-04 (automatically), 480,363 bytes
- Fingerprint
- sha256 a928cf06c57576b66761d1fec8224c9a41a781eb63442afc03ba902858dd64a9ETag "d62ae19e36bfa4d1" · Last-Modified Sun, 17 May 2026 16:23:09 GMT
- Copies
- No Wayback copy recorded yet.Our copy of the exact file
- Cite the producer
- Global Carbon Project. (2026). Supplemental data of Global Carbon Budget 2025 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Global Carbon Project. https://doi.org/10.18160/gcp-2025
What was done to it
Read the sheet 'Global Carbon Budget' of Global_Carbon_Budget_2025_v1.0.xlsx (Global Carbon Budget 2025 v1.0, ICOS object qSjPBsV1drZnYdH-yCJMmkGn): one row per year 1959–2024, in billion tonnes of carbon per year. Sinks are positive numbers in the sheet and stay positive here.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/gcb_global.py · code sha256 63ef45577c93e407… · inputs a928cf06c575…
Checked the sheet's definition of the budget imbalance on every year: fossil emissions plus land-use change emissions, minus atmospheric growth, ocean sink, land sink and cement carbonation sink, equals the imbalance column (largest difference 3.3e-14 GtC/yr). This confirms that the fossil column is before the cement carbonation sink is subtracted.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/gcb_global.py · code sha256 63ef45577c93e407… · inputs a928cf06c575…
Subtracted the cement carbonation sink from fossil emissions (excluding carbonation) for each year, which gives the Global Carbon Budget's headline fossil value.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/gcb_global.py · code sha256 63ef45577c93e407… · inputs a928cf06c575…
Converted from billion tonnes of carbon to billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by multiplying by 3.664, the factor the sheet states ("multiply the numbers below by 3.664"), with exact decimal arithmetic on the stored values.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/gcb_global.py · code sha256 63ef45577c93e407… · inputs a928cf06c575…
What it covers
- Geography
- World
- Land use, land-use change and forestry
- excluded
- Basis
- Carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and industry, net of the cement carbonation sink.
- Unit
- billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year (Gt CO₂/yr)