Countries

Senegal

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry produced in Senegal (territorial emissions; land-use change is not included). The figures below are for 2022, the latest year with total, per-person and per-GDP figures for at least 150 countries.

2022 at a glance

Total
14.1 million tonnes97th of 164 countries in 2022
Per person
0.801 tonnes125th of 164 countries in 2022
Per unit of GDP
0.272 kg per international dollar (2011 prices, PPP)49th of 164 countries in 2022

In 2024, the latest year with a total, Senegal emitted 14.1 million tonnes.

The trend

CO2 emissions, Senegal, 1950 to 2024

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry in Senegal was 14.1 million tonnes in 2024, 381% more than in 1990. The highest yearly total between 1950 and 2024 was 14.1 million tonnes, in 2022.

Show the data as a table
Every fifth year and the latest
YearMillion tonnes
19500.362
19550.292
19600.827
19651.69
19701.31
19752.58
19803.34
19852.65
19902.93
19952.99
20003.90
20055.54
20106.86
20159.85
202010.8
202414.1

By source, 2022

OWID splits CO2 by the fuel or process it comes from, not by economic sector. The published parts add up to 14.1 million tonnes of the 14.1 million tonne total.

CO2 by source, Senegal, 2022, million tonnes
SourceMillion tonnes
Coal2.09
Oil8.93
Gas0.011
Cement3.10
Gas flaring0

Sources and licences

  • Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (owid-co2-data.csv): countries from 1950. Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions), based on the Global Carbon Budget (2025), the Maddison Project Database 2023 (Bolt and van Zanden) and OWID's population series. Retrieved 16 October 2026. CC BY 4.0 for Our World in Data's own work; data produced by third parties keeps its source's terms (OWID's co2-data README). CO2: Global Carbon Budget (2025); GDP: Maddison Project Database 2023; population: OWID's population series. Terms, full data file. Changes: Countries only (rows with a three-letter ISO code), years from 1950, and the columns iso_code, country, year, population, co2, co2_per_capita, co2_per_gdp and the CO2 by source (coal, oil, gas, cement, flaring, other industry); values and row order as published; LF line endings.

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