Table 5 Decomposition of the spatial sources of China’s CEE divergence.

From: Assessing and gauging the carbon emission efficiency in China in accordance with the sustainable development goals

Year

Intra-regional coefficient

Intra-regional contribution

Inter-regional coefficient

Inter-regional contribution

Hyper-variable density coefficient

Hyper-variable density contribution

2003

0.035

13.41%

0.114

44.06%

0.110

42.53%

2004

0.030

13.12%

0.105

45.63%

0.095

41.25%

2005

0.028

13.06%

0.099

46.94%

0.085

40.00%

2006

0.025

13.13%

0.087

45.53%

0.079

41.33%

2007

0.022

13.02%

0.076

44.17%

0.073

42.81%

2008

0.022

12.89%

0.077

45.63%

0.070

41.48%

2009

0.021

12.77%

0.077

47.51%

0.064

39.72%

2010

0.020

12.58%

0.083

52.01%

0.056

35.41%

2011

0.020

12.58%

0.084

52.42%

0.056

35.00%

2012

0.021

12.37%

0.090

54.11%

0.056

33.52%

2013

0.019

12.48%

0.078

50.84%

0.056

36.68%

2014

0.020

12.47%

0.082

51.09%

0.059

36.44%

2015

0.022

12.50%

0.088

50.98%

0.063

36.53%

2016

0.022

12.36%

0.089

50.56%

0.066

37.08%

2017

0.024

10.77%

0.142

63.79%

0.057

25.44%

2018

0.025

11.49%

0.123

57.22%

0.067

31.28%

2019

0.027

11.30%

0.138

57.28%

0.076

31.42%

Mean

0.024

12.49%

0.096

50.57%

0.070

36.94%