Primary energy consumption per capita
- Description
Measured in kilowatt-hours per person.
- Data source
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026); Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
- Unit
- kilowatt-hours per person
- Date range
- 1965-2024
- Last updated
- 2026-05-05
- Next expected update
- 2027-05-05
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How did Our World in Data process this data?
All data and visualizations on Our World in Data rely on data sourced from one or several original data providers. Preparing this original data involves several processing steps. Depending on the data, this can include standardizing country names and world region definitions, converting units, calculating derived indicators such as per capita measures, as well as adding or adapting metadata such as the name or the description given to an indicator.
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Notes on our processing step for this indicator
- Primary energy consumption data was compiled based on two key data sources: Energy Institute (EI) Statistical Review of World Energy, and International energy data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). EI provides the longest and most up-to-date time-series of primary energy. However, it does not provide data for all countries. We have therefore supplemented this dataset with energy data from the EIA. Where EI provides data for a given country, this data is adopted; for countries where this data is missing, we rely on EIA energy figures.
- Per capita figures have been calculated using a population dataset that is based on different sources.
Data sources
U.S. Energy Information Administration – International Energy Data
U.S. Energy Information Administration – International Energy Data
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) - International Energy Data (2026).Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy
Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy
The Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy analyses data on world energy markets from the prior year.
Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2025).Various sources – Population
Various sources – Population
Our World in Data builds and maintains a long-run dataset on population by country, region, and for the world, based on various sources.
You can find more information on these sources and how our time series is constructed on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources
The long-run data on population is based on various sources, described on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sourcesHow to cite
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“Data Page: Primary energy consumption per capita”, part of the following publication: Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado, and Max Roser (2023) - “Energy”. Data adapted from U.S. Energy Information Administration, Energy Institute, Various sources. Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260710-180106/grapher/per-capita-energy-use.html [online resource] (archived on July 10, 2026).How to cite this data
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U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026); Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in DataFull citation
U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026); Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Primary energy consumption per capita” [dataset]. U.S. Energy Information Administration, “International Energy Data”; Energy Institute, “Statistical Review of World Energy”; Various sources, “Population” [original data]. Retrieved July 10, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260710-180106/grapher/per-capita-energy-use.html (archived on July 10, 2026).All data produced by third-party providers and made available by Our World in Data are subject to the license terms from the original providers. Our work would not be possible without the data providers we rely on, so we ask you to always cite them appropriately. This is crucial to allow data providers to continue doing their work, enhancing, maintaining and updating valuable data.
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