Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data. Powerful automation with structured JSON/CSV output, proxy rotation, and automatic retries. Pay only for results.
What does Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data do?
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data is an Apify actor that extracts country-level greenhouse gas emissions data from the World Bank Open Data API. It retrieves CO2 emissions per capita, methane emissions, and nitrous oxide emissions for any combination of countries and year ranges. The actor produces structured datasets ready for analysis, visualization, or integration into climate research workflows. It supports all countries recognized by the World Bank using standard ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes.
Why use Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data?
Climate change research and ESG reporting require reliable, structured emissions data. While the World Bank provides this data through their website, extracting it in bulk requires understanding their API pagination, data formats, and indicator codes. This actor handles all the complexity for you, delivering clean data with proper country names, consistent formatting, and calculated totals. Whether you are building sustainability dashboards, conducting academic research, or preparing ESG compliance reports, this actor saves hours of manual data collection and formatting work.
How to use Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
- Navigate to the actor on the Apify platform.
- Enter the country codes you want to analyze in the
countriesfield using ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes (e.g., USA, CHN, DEU). - Set the
startYearandendYearto define your data range. - Click Start to fetch the emissions data.
- Download the structured dataset from the Dataset tab in your preferred format.
Input Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
countries | array | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes | ["USA","CHN","IND","GBR","DEU"] |
startYear | string | Start year for data range | "2015" |
endYear | string | End year for data range | "2023" |
Output
The dataset contains the following fields for each country-year combination:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
country | Full country name |
year | Data year |
co2Emissions | CO2 emissions in metric tons per capita |
methaneEmissions | Methane emissions in kt of CO2 equivalent |
nitrousOxide | Nitrous oxide emissions in kt of CO2 equivalent |
totalGhg | Combined methane and nitrous oxide total |
source | Data source attribution |
Cost Estimate
This actor is extremely cost-effective as it only makes lightweight API calls to the World Bank. A typical run for 5 countries across 8 years costs approximately $0.001-0.003 on the Apify platform. The actor runs on 512 MB of memory by default. Even processing all 200+ countries is affordable and completes within a few minutes due to efficient API batching.
Tips and Best Practices
- Use standard ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes: USA (United States), CHN (China), IND (India), GBR (United Kingdom), DEU (Germany), FRA (France), JPN (Japan), BRA (Brazil), etc.
- Some emissions data has a reporting lag of 1-3 years, so the most recent years may show null values. This is normal for official environmental statistics.
- Combine this actor with the Renewable Energy Stats actor to get a complete picture of a country's energy and emissions profile.
- Schedule regular runs to track when new data becomes available for recent years.
- Export to CSV for easy import into visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Google Data Studio.
- The
totalGhgfield combines methane and nitrous oxide. CO2 is reported separately per capita and is not directly addable to the kt-based totals without population adjustment. - For regional analysis, the World Bank also supports aggregate codes like EUU (European Union) and WLD (World).
