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 gas (2023)
Legend and Sort
World - overall (2023)
Fossil fuels (2023): 81.5%
gas (144.4 EJ)
Alternative sources (2023): 18.5%
1. United States [Gas: 31.91 EJ]
2. Russia [Gas: 16.32 EJ]
3. China [Gas: 14.57 EJ]
4. Iran [Gas: 8.84 EJ]
5. Canada [Gas: 4.35 EJ]
6. Saudi Arabia [Gas: 4.03 EJ]
7. Mexico [Gas: 3.51 EJ]
8. Japan [Gas: 3.33 EJ]
9. Germany [Gas: 2.72 EJ]
10. United Arab Emirates [Gas: 2.41 EJ]
11. United Kingdom [Gas: 2.29 EJ]
12. India [Gas: 2.25 EJ]
13. South Korea [Gas: 2.16 EJ]
14. Egypt [Gas: 2.16 EJ]
15. Italy [Gas: 2.11 EJ]
16. Turkey [Gas: 1.74 EJ]
17. Thailand [Gas: 1.70 EJ]
18. Algeria [Gas: 1.67 EJ]
Malaysia [Gas: 0 EJ]
20. Indonesia [Gas: 1.64 EJ]
21. Argentina [Gas: 1.62 EJ]
Qatar [Gas: 0 EJ]
23. Australia [Gas: 1.44 EJ]
24. Pakistan [Gas: 1.36 EJ]
25. France [Gas: 1.22 EJ]
26. Brazil [Gas: 1.08 EJ]
27. Venezuela [Gas: 1.07 EJ]
28. Oman [Gas: 1.06 EJ]
29. Spain [Gas: 1.05 EJ]
30. Bangladesh [Gas: 1.01 EJ]
31. Taiwan [Gas: 1.01 EJ]
32. Netherlands [Gas: 0.93 EJ]
33. Kuwait [Gas: 0.81 EJ]
34. Poland [Gas: 0.71 EJ]
Iraq [Gas: 0 EJ]
Trinidad and Tobago [Gas: 0 EJ]
37. Belgium [Gas: 0.49 EJ]
38. Colombia [Gas: 0.47 EJ]
39. Israel [Gas: 0.45 EJ]
Singapore [Gas: 0 EJ]
41. Peru [Gas: 0.36 EJ]
42. Romania [Gas: 0.33 EJ]
43. Hungary [Gas: 0.29 EJ]
44. Vietnam [Gas: 0.26 EJ]
45. Chile [Gas: 0.25 EJ]
46. Austria [Gas: 0.25 EJ]
47. Greece [Gas: 0.19 EJ]
Hong Kong [Gas: 0 EJ]
49. Ireland [Gas: 0.17 EJ]
50. South Africa [Gas: 0.17 EJ]
51. Portugal [Gas: 0.16 EJ]
52. New Zealand [Gas: 0.14 EJ]
53. Norway [Gas: 0.14 EJ]
54. Philippines [Gas: 0.12 EJ]
55. Switzerland [Gas: 0.10 EJ]
56. Bulgaria [Gas: 0.09 EJ]
57. Denmark [Gas: 0.06 EJ]
58. Finland [Gas: 0.04 EJ]
59. Morocco [Gas: 0.03 EJ]
60. Sweden [Gas: 0.03 EJ]
61. Luxembourg [Gas: 0.02 EJ]
62. Ecuador [Gas: 0.02 EJ]
Cyprus [Gas: 0 EJ]
Iceland [Gas: 0 EJ]
Sri Lanka [Gas: 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.)