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population and national fossil fuel production data.\n\nPer capita fossil fuel production was calculated by dividing national production of coal, oil or gas by the total population in any given year.\n\nPopulation data was sourced from a combination of Gapminder sources (for data pre-1950), and from 1950 onwards was sourced from the UN Population Division's 2017 Revision.\n\nFossil fuel production data was sourced from a combination of sources.\n\nGlobal data from 1800-1965 was sourced from Vaclav Smil's Updated and Revised Edition of his book, 'Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives' (2017). This book can be found on Smil's website at: [vaclavsmil.com](http://vaclavsmil.com/2016/12/14/energy-transitions-global-and-national-perspectives-second-expanded-and-updated-edition/).\n\nGlobal data from 1965 onwards was sourced from BP Statistical Review of Global Energy. Available at: [bp.com/statisticalreview](http://www.bp.com/statisticalreview) [accessed 18th October 2017].\n\nData at the national and regional level is sourced from The SHIFT Project Data Portal, who draws upon Etemad & Luciani and US IEA Historical Statistics. Available at: [tsp-data-portal.org](http://www.tsp-data-portal.org/) [accessed 18th October 2017].\n\nLong-run data on UK coal output was sourced from the UK's Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Historical coal data: coal production, availability and consumption 1853 to 2016. Available at: [gov.uk historical coal data](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/historical-coal-data-coal-production-availability-and-consumption-1853-to-2011) [accessed 18th October 2017].","producer":"Various sources","citationFull":"Long-term per capita fossil fuels — Our World in Data based on UN Population Division (2017 Revision); Gapminder; BP Statistical Review of World Energy; Etemad and Luciani; The SHIFT Project Data Portal; Vaclav Smil, Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives (2017); and UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (2017).","attributionShort":"UN, Gapminder, BP, Etemad and Luciani","urlMain":"http://www.tsp-data-portal.org/","dateAccessed":"2017-10-18","datePublished":"2017"}]}