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 oil (2023)
Legend and Sort
World - overall (2023)
Fossil fuels (2023): 81.5%
oil (196.4 EJ)
Alternative sources (2023): 18.5%
1. United States [Oil: 35.86 EJ]
2. China [Oil: 32.73 EJ]
3. India [Oil: 10.57 EJ]
4. Russia [Oil: 7.21 EJ]
5. Saudi Arabia [Oil: 7.20 EJ]
6. Japan [Oil: 6.66 EJ]
7. South Korea [Oil: 5.36 EJ]
8. Brazil [Oil: 5.11 EJ]
9. Canada [Oil: 4.35 EJ]
10. Germany [Oil: 4.01 EJ]
11. Mexico [Oil: 3.84 EJ]
12. Iran [Oil: 3.50 EJ]
13. Indonesia [Oil: 3.10 EJ]
Singapore [Oil: 0 EJ]
15. France [Oil: 2.76 EJ]
16. United Kingdom [Oil: 2.69 EJ]
17. Spain [Oil: 2.57 EJ]
18. Italy [Oil: 2.47 EJ]
19. Thailand [Oil: 2.31 EJ]
20. Turkey [Oil: 2.30 EJ]
21. United Arab Emirates [Oil: 2.20 EJ]
22. Australia [Oil: 2.17 EJ]
Iraq [Oil: 0 EJ]
Malaysia [Oil: 0 EJ]
25. Netherlands [Oil: 1.70 EJ]
26. Taiwan [Oil: 1.63 EJ]
27. Egypt [Oil: 1.49 EJ]
28. Argentina [Oil: 1.41 EJ]
29. Poland [Oil: 1.41 EJ]
30. Vietnam [Oil: 1.20 EJ]
31. Belgium [Oil: 1.13 EJ]
32. South Africa [Oil: 1.09 EJ]
33. Colombia [Oil: 0.98 EJ]
34. Philippines [Oil: 0.93 EJ]
35. Algeria [Oil: 0.86 EJ]
36. Venezuela [Oil: 0.84 EJ]
37. Chile [Oil: 0.83 EJ]
38. Pakistan [Oil: 0.78 EJ]
39. Kuwait [Oil: 0.76 EJ]
40. Greece [Oil: 0.62 EJ]
Qatar [Oil: 0 EJ]
42. Ecuador [Oil: 0.58 EJ]
Hong Kong [Oil: 0 EJ]
44. Morocco [Oil: 0.57 EJ]
45. Peru [Oil: 0.52 EJ]
46. Bangladesh [Oil: 0.52 EJ]
47. Austria [Oil: 0.49 EJ]
48. Sweden [Oil: 0.47 EJ]
49. Oman [Oil: 0.47 EJ]
50. Romania [Oil: 0.46 EJ]
51. Portugal [Oil: 0.45 EJ]
52. Israel [Oil: 0.44 EJ]
53. Switzerland [Oil: 0.39 EJ]
54. Norway [Oil: 0.38 EJ]
55. Hungary [Oil: 0.34 EJ]
56. Finland [Oil: 0.33 EJ]
57. New Zealand [Oil: 0.32 EJ]
58. Denmark [Oil: 0.32 EJ]
59. Ireland [Oil: 0.30 EJ]
60. Sri Lanka [Oil: 0.22 EJ]
61. Bulgaria [Oil: 0.21 EJ]
62. Cyprus [Oil: 0.10 EJ]
63. Luxembourg [Oil: 0.10 EJ]
Trinidad and Tobago [Oil: 0 EJ]
65. Iceland [Oil: 0.04 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.)