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 nuclear (2023)
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World - overall (2023)
Fossil fuels (2023): 81.5%
Alternative sources (2023): 18.5%
nuclear (24.6 EJ)
1. United States [Nuclear: 7.32 EJ]
2. China [Nuclear: 3.90 EJ]
3. France [Nuclear: 3.03 EJ]
4. Russia [Nuclear: 1.95 EJ]
5. South Korea [Nuclear: 1.62 EJ]
6. Canada [Nuclear: 0.80 EJ]
7. Japan [Nuclear: 0.70 EJ]
8. Spain [Nuclear: 0.51 EJ]
9. Sweden [Nuclear: 0.43 EJ]
10. India [Nuclear: 0.43 EJ]
11. United Kingdom [Nuclear: 0.37 EJ]
12. Finland [Nuclear: 0.31 EJ]
13. Belgium [Nuclear: 0.30 EJ]
14. United Arab Emirates [Nuclear: 0.29 EJ]
15. Switzerland [Nuclear: 0.21 EJ]
16. Pakistan [Nuclear: 0.20 EJ]
17. Taiwan [Nuclear: 0.16 EJ]
18. Bulgaria [Nuclear: 0.15 EJ]
19. Hungary [Nuclear: 0.14 EJ]
20. Brazil [Nuclear: 0.13 EJ]
21. Mexico [Nuclear: 0.11 EJ]
22. Romania [Nuclear: 0.10 EJ]
23. Argentina [Nuclear: 0.08 EJ]
24. South Africa [Nuclear: 0.08 EJ]
25. Germany [Nuclear: 0.06 EJ]
26. Iran [Nuclear: 0.06 EJ]
27. Netherlands [Nuclear: 0.04 EJ]
Algeria [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Australia [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Austria [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Bangladesh [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Chile [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Colombia [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Cyprus [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Denmark [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Ecuador [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Egypt [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Greece [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Hong Kong [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Iceland [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Indonesia [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Iraq [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Ireland [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Israel [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Italy [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Kuwait [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Luxembourg [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Malaysia [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Morocco [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
New Zealand [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Norway [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Oman [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Peru [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Philippines [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Poland [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Portugal [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Qatar [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Saudi Arabia [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Singapore [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Sri Lanka [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Thailand [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Trinidad and Tobago [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Turkey [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Venezuela [Nuclear: 0 EJ]
Vietnam [Nuclear: 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.)