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 hydro (2023)
Legend and Sort
World - overall (2023)
Fossil fuels (2023): 81.5%
Alternative sources (2023): 18.5%
hydro (39.7 EJ)
1. China [Hydro: 11.47 EJ]
2. Brazil [Hydro: 4.01 EJ]
3. Canada [Hydro: 3.41 EJ]
4. United States [Hydro: 2.21 EJ]
5. Russia [Hydro: 1.88 EJ]
6. India [Hydro: 1.39 EJ]
7. Norway [Hydro: 1.27 EJ]
8. Vietnam [Hydro: 0.76 EJ]
9. Japan [Hydro: 0.70 EJ]
10. Sweden [Hydro: 0.62 EJ]
11. Venezuela [Hydro: 0.61 EJ]
12. Turkey [Hydro: 0.60 EJ]
13. Colombia [Hydro: 0.56 EJ]
14. France [Hydro: 0.52 EJ]
15. Italy [Hydro: 0.36 EJ]
16. Austria [Hydro: 0.36 EJ]
17. Pakistan [Hydro: 0.35 EJ]
18. Switzerland [Hydro: 0.35 EJ]
Malaysia [Hydro: 0 EJ]
20. Argentina [Hydro: 0.28 EJ]
21. Peru [Hydro: 0.27 EJ]
22. New Zealand [Hydro: 0.25 EJ]
23. Spain [Hydro: 0.24 EJ]
24. Ecuador [Hydro: 0.24 EJ]
25. Indonesia [Hydro: 0.23 EJ]
26. Chile [Hydro: 0.22 EJ]
27. Iran [Hydro: 0.21 EJ]
28. Mexico [Hydro: 0.19 EJ]
29. Germany [Hydro: 0.18 EJ]
30. Romania [Hydro: 0.17 EJ]
31. Australia [Hydro: 0.14 EJ]
32. Finland [Hydro: 0.14 EJ]
33. Iceland [Hydro: 0.13 EJ]
34. Egypt [Hydro: 0.13 EJ]
35. Portugal [Hydro: 0.11 EJ]
36. Philippines [Hydro: 0.10 EJ]
37. Thailand [Hydro: 0.06 EJ]
38. Sri Lanka [Hydro: 0.05 EJ]
39. United Kingdom [Hydro: 0.05 EJ]
40. Taiwan [Hydro: 0.04 EJ]
41. Greece [Hydro: 0.04 EJ]
42. South Korea [Hydro: 0.03 EJ]
Iraq [Hydro: 0 EJ]
44. Bulgaria [Hydro: 0.03 EJ]
45. Poland [Hydro: 0.02 EJ]
46. South Africa [Hydro: 0.02 EJ]
47. Ireland [Hydro: 0.01 EJ]
48. Bangladesh [Hydro: 0.01 EJ]
49. Belgium [Hydro: 0.00 EJ]
50. Hungary [Hydro: 0.00 EJ]
51. Morocco [Hydro: 0.00 EJ]
52. Luxembourg [Hydro: 0.00 EJ]
53. Algeria [Hydro: 0.00 EJ]
54. Netherlands [Hydro: 0.00 EJ]
55. Denmark [Hydro: 0.00 EJ]
56. Israel [Hydro: 0.00 EJ]
Cyprus [Hydro: 0 EJ]
Hong Kong [Hydro: 0 EJ]
Kuwait [Hydro: 0 EJ]
Oman [Hydro: 0 EJ]
Qatar [Hydro: 0 EJ]
Saudi Arabia [Hydro: 0 EJ]
Singapore [Hydro: 0 EJ]
Trinidad and Tobago [Hydro: 0 EJ]
United Arab Emirates [Hydro: 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.)