Puerto Rico (US) Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from Power Industry (Energy) (Mt CO2e)

Puerto Rico (US) Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from Power Industry (Energy) (Mt CO2e): Key Points

• Bookending the series — 2014 at 8.25 t CO2eq, 2023 at 11.56 t CO2eq — puts Puerto Rico (US)'s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from Power Industry (Energy) up by roughly 40% across the full window.
• 2016: drops to 7.82 t CO2eq (-6%).
• 2017-2018: shoots up to 10.49 t CO2eq (+34%).
• 2019: slips to 9.57 t CO2eq (-9%).
• 2022-2023: works higher, reaching 11.56 t CO2eq (+18%).
• Overall move from 2014 to 2023: 40.2% gain, settling at 11.56 t CO2eq.

Reading A Choppy Series

Don't anchor on the most recent year. With this much back-and-forth, the latest reading is one data point among several similarly-weighted ones, not the start of a new trend.

A 22% move in 2018 alone is doing a lot of the work in this chart's overall story. Understand that one year and you understand most of what is driving the whole series.

Worth pairing this with the same indicator for a handful of comparable economies before concluding anything about Puerto Rico (US) specifically — a move that looks large here can be the regional norm, or genuinely unusual, and this chart alone can't say which.

This is Puerto Rico (US) data, published by the source linked below. Indicator series like this are usually modeled/estimated between survey years, not measured fresh every year — trust the multi-year direction over any one data point.