World Energy Consumption 1970-2023 - Yearly amounts
NOTE 1: The fuel designated "geo" includes geothermal, biomass (which is used to make various biofuels) and "other" (which means "other renewables").
NOTE 2: As you hover over the charts, you'll see more information on the data. On a phone, drag across the charts.
NOTE 3: Click on any of the fuels in the legend to sort countries by consumption of that fuel.
Data source: Our World in Data.
Energy Consumption by Year and Fuel sorted by biofuels (2023)
Legend and Sort
World - overall (2023)
Fossil fuels (2023): 81.5%
Alternative sources (2023): 18.5%
biofuels (4.7 EJ)
1. United States [Biofuels: 1.78 EJ]
2. Brazil [Biofuels: 0.96 EJ]
3. Indonesia [Biofuels: 0.40 EJ]
4. France [Biofuels: 0.14 EJ]
5. Germany [Biofuels: 0.13 EJ]
6. India [Biofuels: 0.12 EJ]
7. Canada [Biofuels: 0.12 EJ]
8. China [Biofuels: 0.11 EJ]
9. United Kingdom [Biofuels: 0.09 EJ]
10. Thailand [Biofuels: 0.08 EJ]
11. Spain [Biofuels: 0.07 EJ]
12. Sweden [Biofuels: 0.06 EJ]
13. Italy [Biofuels: 0.05 EJ]
14. Netherlands [Biofuels: 0.05 EJ]
15. Poland [Biofuels: 0.05 EJ]
16. Argentina [Biofuels: 0.05 EJ]
17. Colombia [Biofuels: 0.04 EJ]
Malaysia [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
19. South Korea [Biofuels: 0.03 EJ]
20. Belgium [Biofuels: 0.03 EJ]
21. Philippines [Biofuels: 0.02 EJ]
22. Norway [Biofuels: 0.02 EJ]
23. Japan [Biofuels: 0.02 EJ]
24. Russia [Biofuels: 0.02 EJ]
25. Peru [Biofuels: 0.02 EJ]
26. Romania [Biofuels: 0.02 EJ]
27. Austria [Biofuels: 0.02 EJ]
28. Finland [Biofuels: 0.01 EJ]
29. Portugal [Biofuels: 0.01 EJ]
30. Hungary [Biofuels: 0.01 EJ]
31. Ireland [Biofuels: 0.01 EJ]
32. Greece [Biofuels: 0.01 EJ]
33. Mexico [Biofuels: 0.01 EJ]
34. Denmark [Biofuels: 0.01 EJ]
35. Bulgaria [Biofuels: 0.01 EJ]
36. Switzerland [Biofuels: 0.01 EJ]
37. Turkey [Biofuels: 0.01 EJ]
38. Luxembourg [Biofuels: 0.01 EJ]
Hong Kong [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
40. Australia [Biofuels: 0.00 EJ]
41. Israel [Biofuels: 0.00 EJ]
42. South Africa [Biofuels: 0.00 EJ]
43. Ecuador [Biofuels: 0.00 EJ]
44. Cyprus [Biofuels: 0.00 EJ]
45. Iceland [Biofuels: 0.00 EJ]
46. New Zealand [Biofuels: 0.00 EJ]
Algeria [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Bangladesh [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Chile [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Egypt [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Iran [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Iraq [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Kuwait [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Morocco [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Oman [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Pakistan [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Qatar [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Saudi Arabia [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Singapore [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Sri Lanka [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Taiwan [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Trinidad and Tobago [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
United Arab Emirates [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Venezuela [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Vietnam [Biofuels: 0 EJ]
Copyright © Murray Bourne
Credit: Loosely based on a Tableau rendering of the same data by Brian Moore: "World Energy Consumption" (Tableau - no longer available). (Like most Tableau data visualizations, it was slow to load and unfriendly on a phone.)