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 wind (2023)
Legend and Sort
World - overall (2023)
Fossil fuels (2023): 81.5%
Alternative sources (2023): 18.5%
wind (21.7 EJ)
1. China [Wind: 8.28 EJ]
2. United States [Wind: 4.02 EJ]
3. Germany [Wind: 1.33 EJ]
4. Brazil [Wind: 0.89 EJ]
5. India [Wind: 0.77 EJ]
6. United Kingdom [Wind: 0.77 EJ]
7. Spain [Wind: 0.60 EJ]
8. France [Wind: 0.49 EJ]
9. Canada [Wind: 0.36 EJ]
10. Sweden [Wind: 0.32 EJ]
11. Turkey [Wind: 0.32 EJ]
12. Australia [Wind: 0.30 EJ]
13. Netherlands [Wind: 0.27 EJ]
14. Poland [Wind: 0.23 EJ]
15. Italy [Wind: 0.22 EJ]
16. Mexico [Wind: 0.20 EJ]
17. Denmark [Wind: 0.18 EJ]
18. Belgium [Wind: 0.15 EJ]
19. Finland [Wind: 0.14 EJ]
20. Argentina [Wind: 0.14 EJ]
21. Norway [Wind: 0.13 EJ]
22. Portugal [Wind: 0.12 EJ]
23. Ireland [Wind: 0.11 EJ]
24. South Africa [Wind: 0.11 EJ]
25. Vietnam [Wind: 0.11 EJ]
26. Greece [Wind: 0.10 EJ]
27. Japan [Wind: 0.09 EJ]
28. Chile [Wind: 0.09 EJ]
29. Austria [Wind: 0.08 EJ]
30. Romania [Wind: 0.07 EJ]
31. Morocco [Wind: 0.06 EJ]
32. Taiwan [Wind: 0.06 EJ]
33. Egypt [Wind: 0.05 EJ]
34. Russia [Wind: 0.04 EJ]
35. Pakistan [Wind: 0.04 EJ]
36. Thailand [Wind: 0.03 EJ]
37. South Korea [Wind: 0.03 EJ]
38. New Zealand [Wind: 0.03 EJ]
39. Peru [Wind: 0.02 EJ]
40. Bulgaria [Wind: 0.01 EJ]
41. Iran [Wind: 0.01 EJ]
42. Philippines [Wind: 0.01 EJ]
43. Sri Lanka [Wind: 0.01 EJ]
44. Hungary [Wind: 0.01 EJ]
45. Indonesia [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
46. Luxembourg [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
47. Israel [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
48. Ecuador [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
49. Colombia [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
50. Cyprus [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
51. Switzerland [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
52. Oman [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
53. United Arab Emirates [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
54. Kuwait [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
55. Bangladesh [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
56. Venezuela [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
57. Algeria [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
58. Iceland [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
59. Saudi Arabia [Wind: 0.00 EJ]
Hong Kong [Wind: 0 EJ]
Iraq [Wind: 0 EJ]
Malaysia [Wind: 0 EJ]
Qatar [Wind: 0 EJ]
Singapore [Wind: 0 EJ]
Trinidad and Tobago [Wind: 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.)