World Energy Consumption 1970-2023 - Yearly totals
Information on the charts
This analysis contains only the 66 countries that have reported on energy consumption by source for the full 50-year period. It includes the major polluters - China, US, India, Russia, Japan, and Indonesia.
The units on the vertical axis of each chart are exajoules (EJ, or 1018 J). One exajoule is approximately the amount of energy currently used by Israel or Greece in a year. It is equivalent to 277.778 terawatt hours. Current world consumption is around 600 EJ per year.
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.
Total Energy Consumption by Country and Year
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Legend and Sort
(Click any fuel to sort)
Alternative fuels (2023): 18.53%
Fossil fuels (2023): 81.47%
World
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Cyprus
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kuwait
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Venezuela
Vietnam
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.)