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 sorted by solar percentage (2023)
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(Click any fuel to sort)
Alternative fuels (2023): 18.53%
solar (2.5%)
Fossil fuels (2023): 81.47%
1. Chile [9.37% solar]
2. Spain [7.74% solar]
3. Greece [7.24% solar]
4. Australia [6.99% solar]
5. Hungary [6.71% solar]
6. Cyprus [6.66% solar]
7. Israel [6.31% solar]
8. Netherlands [5.76% solar]
9. Portugal [5.4% solar]
10. Japan [5.21% solar]
11. Germany [5.02% solar]
12. Switzerland [4.99% solar]
13. Italy [4.91% solar]
14. Vietnam [4.91% solar]
15. Denmark [4.62% solar]
16. Sri Lanka [4.5% solar]
17. Bulgaria [4.47% solar]
18. Austria [3.49% solar]
19. Brazil [3.47% solar]
20. China [3.2% solar]
21. Mexico [3% solar]
22. Belgium [2.96% solar]
23. Turkey [2.74% solar]
24. India [2.72% solar]
25. Taiwan [2.67% solar]
26. Poland [2.65% solar]
27. United Arab Emirates [2.51% solar]
28. World [2.48% solar]
29. France [2.4% solar]
30. United States [2.39% solar]
31. South Korea [2.21% solar]
32. Luxembourg [2.07% solar]
33. Morocco [2.02% solar]
34. United Kingdom [1.86% solar]
35. Romania [1.36% solar]
36. Sweden [1.35% solar]
37. Egypt [1.24% solar]
38. South Africa [1.23% solar]
39. Philippines [1.07% solar]
40. Thailand [1.01% solar]
41. Oman [0.89% solar]
42. Argentina [0.83% solar]
43. Peru [0.8% solar]
44. Bangladesh [0.65% solar]
45. Malaysia [0.63% solar]
46. Ireland [0.6% solar]
47. Qatar [0.55% solar]
48. Finland [0.52% solar]
49. Canada [0.51% solar]
50. Colombia [0.5% solar]
51. New Zealand [0.41% solar]
52. Pakistan [0.34% solar]
53. Hong Kong [0.25% solar]
54. Singapore [0.25% solar]
55. Algeria [0.24% solar]
56. Norway [0.24% solar]
57. Iraq [0.16% solar]
58. Saudi Arabia [0.11% solar]
59. Kuwait [0.08% solar]
60. Russia [0.08% solar]
61. Indonesia [0.07% solar]
62. Iran [0.06% solar]
63. Ecuador [0.05% solar]
64. Trinidad and Tobago [0.02% solar]
65. Iceland [0% solar]
66. Venezuela [0% solar]
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.)