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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.\n- Per capita figures have been calculated using a population dataset that is based on [different sources](https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources).\n- To calculate energy per unit of GDP, we divide by total real GDP figures from [the Maddison Project Database](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-maddison-project-database).\n","type":"float","dataChecksum":"7575965483892118882","metadataChecksum":"2150497438896618841","datasetName":"Primary energy consumption","updatePeriodDays":365,"datasetVersion":"2025-06-27","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"name":"Per capita energy consumption","unit":"kilowatt-hours per person","shortUnit":"kWh","numDecimalPlaces":0},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"major","presentation":{"titlePublic":"Primary energy consumption per capita","topicTagsLinks":["Energy"]},"descriptionKey":["Population is the most commonly used metric throughout Our World in Data. 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