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%

oil (196.4 EJ)

coal (164 EJ)

gas (144.4 EJ)

Alternative sources (2023): 18.5%

hydro (39.7 EJ)

nuclear (24.6 EJ)

wind (21.7 EJ)

solar (15.4 EJ)

geo (8.7 EJ)

biofuels (4.7 EJ)

[sort alphabetically]

1. United States [Biofuels: 1.78 EJ]

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2. Brazil [Biofuels: 0.96 EJ]

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3. Indonesia [Biofuels: 0.40 EJ]

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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.)