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 solar (2023)
Legend and Sort
World - overall (2023)
Fossil fuels (2023): 81.5%
Alternative sources (2023): 18.5%
solar (15.4 EJ)
1. China [Solar: 5.46 EJ]
2. United States [Solar: 2.25 EJ]
3. India [Solar: 1.06 EJ]
4. Japan [Solar: 0.91 EJ]
5. Germany [Solar: 0.57 EJ]
6. Brazil [Solar: 0.48 EJ]
7. Spain [Solar: 0.44 EJ]
8. Australia [Solar: 0.42 EJ]
9. Italy [Solar: 0.29 EJ]
10. South Korea [Solar: 0.27 EJ]
11. Mexico [Solar: 0.25 EJ]
12. Vietnam [Solar: 0.24 EJ]
13. France [Solar: 0.21 EJ]
14. Netherlands [Solar: 0.20 EJ]
15. Turkey [Solar: 0.19 EJ]
16. Chile [Solar: 0.17 EJ]
17. United Kingdom [Solar: 0.13 EJ]
18. United Arab Emirates [Solar: 0.13 EJ]
19. Taiwan [Solar: 0.12 EJ]
20. Poland [Solar: 0.11 EJ]
21. Greece [Solar: 0.08 EJ]
22. Canada [Solar: 0.07 EJ]
23. Israel [Solar: 0.07 EJ]
24. Belgium [Solar: 0.07 EJ]
25. Hungary [Solar: 0.06 EJ]
26. South Africa [Solar: 0.06 EJ]
27. Switzerland [Solar: 0.06 EJ]
28. Portugal [Solar: 0.05 EJ]
29. Thailand [Solar: 0.05 EJ]
30. Egypt [Solar: 0.05 EJ]
31. Austria [Solar: 0.05 EJ]
32. Denmark [Solar: 0.03 EJ]
33. Bulgaria [Solar: 0.03 EJ]
34. Argentina [Solar: 0.03 EJ]
Malaysia [Solar: 0 EJ]
36. Sweden [Solar: 0.03 EJ]
37. Russia [Solar: 0.02 EJ]
38. Philippines [Solar: 0.02 EJ]
39. Morocco [Solar: 0.02 EJ]
40. Romania [Solar: 0.02 EJ]
41. Sri Lanka [Solar: 0.02 EJ]
42. Oman [Solar: 0.01 EJ]
43. Saudi Arabia [Solar: 0.01 EJ]
Qatar [Solar: 0 EJ]
45. Bangladesh [Solar: 0.01 EJ]
46. Pakistan [Solar: 0.01 EJ]
47. Colombia [Solar: 0.01 EJ]
48. Peru [Solar: 0.01 EJ]
Singapore [Solar: 0 EJ]
50. Cyprus [Solar: 0.01 EJ]
51. Iran [Solar: 0.01 EJ]
52. Indonesia [Solar: 0.01 EJ]
53. Finland [Solar: 0.01 EJ]
54. Algeria [Solar: 0.01 EJ]
55. Norway [Solar: 0.00 EJ]
Iraq [Solar: 0 EJ]
57. Ireland [Solar: 0.00 EJ]
58. New Zealand [Solar: 0.00 EJ]
59. Luxembourg [Solar: 0.00 EJ]
Hong Kong [Solar: 0 EJ]
61. Kuwait [Solar: 0.00 EJ]
62. Ecuador [Solar: 0.00 EJ]
Trinidad and Tobago [Solar: 0 EJ]
Iceland [Solar: 0 EJ]
Venezuela [Solar: 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.)