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").
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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 coal (2023)
Legend and Sort
World - overall (2023)
Fossil fuels (2023): 81.5%
coal (164 EJ)
Alternative sources (2023): 18.5%
1. China [Coal: 91.94 EJ]
2. India [Coal: 21.98 EJ]
3. United States [Coal: 8.20 EJ]
4. Japan [Coal: 4.54 EJ]
5. Indonesia [Coal: 4.32 EJ]
6. Russia [Coal: 3.83 EJ]
7. South Africa [Coal: 3.33 EJ]
8. South Korea [Coal: 2.69 EJ]
9. Vietnam [Coal: 2.32 EJ]
10. Germany [Coal: 1.83 EJ]
11. Turkey [Coal: 1.65 EJ]
12. Australia [Coal: 1.51 EJ]
13. Poland [Coal: 1.51 EJ]
14. Taiwan [Coal: 1.49 EJ]
Malaysia [Coal: 0 EJ]
16. Philippines [Coal: 0.88 EJ]
17. Pakistan [Coal: 0.62 EJ]
18. Thailand [Coal: 0.61 EJ]
19. Brazil [Coal: 0.57 EJ]
20. Canada [Coal: 0.37 EJ]
21. Morocco [Coal: 0.29 EJ]
22. Bangladesh [Coal: 0.28 EJ]
23. Mexico [Coal: 0.26 EJ]
24. Italy [Coal: 0.22 EJ]
25. United Kingdom [Coal: 0.18 EJ]
26. France [Coal: 0.18 EJ]
27. Chile [Coal: 0.18 EJ]
28. Bulgaria [Coal: 0.16 EJ]
29. Netherlands [Coal: 0.16 EJ]
30. Colombia [Coal: 0.16 EJ]
Hong Kong [Coal: 0 EJ]
32. Israel [Coal: 0.14 EJ]
33. Spain [Coal: 0.12 EJ]
34. Romania [Coal: 0.11 EJ]
35. United Arab Emirates [Coal: 0.10 EJ]
36. Belgium [Coal: 0.10 EJ]
37. Austria [Coal: 0.10 EJ]
38. Finland [Coal: 0.09 EJ]
39. Iran [Coal: 0.08 EJ]
40. Sweden [Coal: 0.07 EJ]
41. Sri Lanka [Coal: 0.06 EJ]
42. Egypt [Coal: 0.05 EJ]
43. Greece [Coal: 0.05 EJ]
44. Argentina [Coal: 0.05 EJ]
45. New Zealand [Coal: 0.04 EJ]
46. Hungary [Coal: 0.04 EJ]
47. Norway [Coal: 0.03 EJ]
48. Peru [Coal: 0.03 EJ]
49. Denmark [Coal: 0.03 EJ]
50. Ireland [Coal: 0.03 EJ]
Singapore [Coal: 0 EJ]
52. Algeria [Coal: 0.01 EJ]
53. Venezuela [Coal: 0.01 EJ]
54. Kuwait [Coal: 0.01 EJ]
55. Oman [Coal: 0.01 EJ]
56. Saudi Arabia [Coal: 0.00 EJ]
57. Switzerland [Coal: 0.00 EJ]
58. Iceland [Coal: 0.00 EJ]
59. Ecuador [Coal: 0.00 EJ]
60. Luxembourg [Coal: 0.00 EJ]
61. Cyprus [Coal: 0.00 EJ]
Qatar [Coal: 0 EJ]
63. Portugal [Coal: 0.00 EJ]
Iraq [Coal: 0 EJ]
Trinidad and Tobago [Coal: 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.)