Our complete Energy dataset is a collection of key metrics maintained by Our World in Data. It is updated regularly and includes data on energy consumption (primary energy, per capita, and growth rates), energy mix, electricity mix and other relevant metrics.
We will continue to publish updated data on Energy as it becomes available. Most metrics are published on an annual basis.
- Energy consumption (primary energy, energy mix and energy intensity): this data is sourced from a combination of two sources—the BP Statistical Review of World Energy and SHIFT Data Portal.
- Electricity consumption (electricity consumption, and electricity mix): this data is sourced from a combination of two sources—the BP Statistical Review of World Energy and EMBER – Global Electricity Dashboard.
- Other variables: this data is collected from a variety of sources (United Nations, World Bank, Gapminder, Maddison Project Database, etc.). More information is available in our codebook.
Our complete Energy dataset is available in CSV, XLSX, and JSON formats.
The CSV and XLSX files follow a format of 1 row per location and year. The JSON version is split by country, with an array of yearly records.
The variables represent all of our main data related to energy consumption, energy mix, electricity mix as well as other variables of potential interest.
A full codebook is made available, with a description and source for each variable in the dataset.
- On September 9, 2020, the first version of this dataset was made available.
- We standardize names of countries and regions. Since the names of countries and regions are different in different data sources, we standardize all names to the Our World in Data standard entity names.
- We recalculate primary energy in terawatt-hours. The primary data sources on energy—the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, for example—typically report consumption in terms of exajoules. We have recalculated these figures as terawatt-hours using a conversion factor of 277.8.
- We calculate per capita figures. All of our per capita figures are calculated from our metric
Population, which is included in the complete dataset. These population figures are sourced from Gapminder and the UN World Population Prospects (UNWPP).
All visualizations, data, and code produced by Our World in Data are completely open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You have the permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited.
The data produced by third parties and made available by Our World in Data is subject to the license terms from the original third-party authors. We will always indicate the original source of the data in our database, and you should always check the license of any such third-party data before use.
This data has been collected, aggregated, and documented by Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser and Edouard Mathieu.
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