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 geo (2023)
Legend and Sort
World - overall (2023)
Fossil fuels (2023): 81.5%
Alternative sources (2023): 18.5%
geo (8.7 EJ)
1. China [Geo: 2.28 EJ]
2. United States [Geo: 0.73 EJ]
3. Brazil [Geo: 0.64 EJ]
4. Germany [Geo: 0.57 EJ]
5. Japan [Geo: 0.47 EJ]
6. India [Geo: 0.43 EJ]
7. Indonesia [Geo: 0.41 EJ]
8. United Kingdom [Geo: 0.39 EJ]
9. South Korea [Geo: 0.22 EJ]
10. Italy [Geo: 0.22 EJ]
11. Turkey [Geo: 0.20 EJ]
12. Thailand [Geo: 0.16 EJ]
13. Sweden [Geo: 0.13 EJ]
14. Finland [Geo: 0.13 EJ]
15. Canada [Geo: 0.12 EJ]
16. France [Geo: 0.11 EJ]
17. Philippines [Geo: 0.11 EJ]
18. Poland [Geo: 0.09 EJ]
19. Netherlands [Geo: 0.09 EJ]
20. New Zealand [Geo: 0.08 EJ]
21. Denmark [Geo: 0.08 EJ]
22. Mexico [Geo: 0.07 EJ]
23. Chile [Geo: 0.07 EJ]
24. Spain [Geo: 0.06 EJ]
25. Iceland [Geo: 0.05 EJ]
26. Austria [Geo: 0.05 EJ]
27. Portugal [Geo: 0.04 EJ]
28. Belgium [Geo: 0.04 EJ]
29. Australia [Geo: 0.04 EJ]
30. Colombia [Geo: 0.04 EJ]
31. Argentina [Geo: 0.03 EJ]
32. Switzerland [Geo: 0.02 EJ]
33. Taiwan [Geo: 0.02 EJ]
34. Bulgaria [Geo: 0.02 EJ]
35. Hungary [Geo: 0.02 EJ]
Malaysia [Geo: 0 EJ]
37. Ireland [Geo: 0.01 EJ]
38. Vietnam [Geo: 0.01 EJ]
Singapore [Geo: 0 EJ]
40. Russia [Geo: 0.01 EJ]
41. Greece [Geo: 0.01 EJ]
42. Pakistan [Geo: 0.01 EJ]
43. Peru [Geo: 0.01 EJ]
44. South Africa [Geo: 0.00 EJ]
45. Ecuador [Geo: 0.00 EJ]
46. Norway [Geo: 0.00 EJ]
47. Romania [Geo: 0.00 EJ]
48. Luxembourg [Geo: 0.00 EJ]
49. Sri Lanka [Geo: 0.00 EJ]
Qatar [Geo: 0 EJ]
Hong Kong [Geo: 0 EJ]
52. Israel [Geo: 0.00 EJ]
53. Cyprus [Geo: 0.00 EJ]
54. United Arab Emirates [Geo: 0.00 EJ]
55. Iran [Geo: 0.00 EJ]
Algeria [Geo: 0 EJ]
Bangladesh [Geo: 0 EJ]
Egypt [Geo: 0 EJ]
Iraq [Geo: 0 EJ]
Kuwait [Geo: 0 EJ]
Morocco [Geo: 0 EJ]
Oman [Geo: 0 EJ]
Saudi Arabia [Geo: 0 EJ]
Trinidad and Tobago [Geo: 0 EJ]
Venezuela [Geo: 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.)