World Energy Consumption 1970-2023 - Yearly amounts
Information on the charts
The following analysis involves data from the 66 countries that have reported on energy consumption by source for the full 54-year period. It includes the major polluters - China, US, India, Russia (which became a separate country in 1991), Japan, and Indonesia.
The units for the vertical axis of each chart are exajoules (EJ, or 1018 J). One exajoule is approximately the amount of energy currently used by Israel or Greece in a year. It is equivalent to 277.778 terawatt hours. Current world consumption is around 600 EJ per year.
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.)