Highest Energy Consumers In The World

This is a list of countries by total energy consumption per capita.

Highest energy consumers in the world.

Energy consumption increased at a slower pace than in previous years in china 3 2 the world s largest consumer since 2009 in russia 1 8 and in india 0 8 only. Global energy consumption growth slowed down in 2019 0 6 compared to an average 2 year over the 2000 2018 period in a context of slower economic growth. It is also the second largest oil guzzler and one of the top five natural gas consumers in the world. This is not the consumption of end users but all energy needed as input to produce fuel and electricity for end users.

China happens to be the world s largest producer and consumer of coal though it has stepped up investments in the renewable energy sector in recent years. It is known as total primary energy supply tpes a term used to indicate the sum of production and imports subtracting exports and storage changes see also worldwide energy supply. The united kingdom is the 11th highest electricity consuming country on the planet. According to the iea the total world energy consumption in past years was 143 851 twh in 2008 133 602 twh in 2005 117 687 twh in 2000 and 102 569 twh in 1990.

This list of countries by electric energy consumption is mostly based on the world factbook. United states of america. Oil and natural gas accounted for over 60 of the country s total energy consumption. The us was the top electricity consumer for decades before china dethroned it in 2011.

The united states energy information administration eia regularly publishes a report on world consumption for most types of primary energy resources. The per capita data for many countries may be slightly inaccurate as population data may not be for the same year that the consumption data are.