Energy Use per Person

Energy use per person, kg of oil equivalent. Gapminder, 2016–2023.

Source: Gapminder (open data, ddf) Licence: CC BY 4.0 Unit: kg oil eq Parsed: 2026-07-03 Open source ↗

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Avg (2023)
2260.7
-1.0% vs 2022
Improving
58
of 149 tracked
Declining
76
period over period
Stable
15
±0.5% band

Energy use

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2016–2023.

428.41183.31938.32693.33448.2 20162017201820192020202120222023
AfricaEuropeAsiaAmericas

Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇱🇾 Libya 2,662 +72.4%
🇱🇧 Lebanon 780 +19.4%
🇲🇳 Mongolia 2,176 +13.7%
🇰🇭 Cambodia 555 +11.4%
🇦🇪 UAE 9,140 +10.1%

Top fallers

EntityNowChange
🇪🇪 Estonia 3,089 -13.2%
🇧🇳 Brunei 8,658 -12.5%
🇭🇹 Haiti 324 -12.4%
🇧🇬 Bulgaria 2,604 -12.3%
🇩🇪 Germany 2,928 -10.2%

By group

Change by group, latest period.

Africa +4.5%
Asia -1.0%
Americas -1.2%
Europe -3.0%
GroupMembersAvgChange
Asia 41 3,117.9 -1.0%
Europe 45 2,919.1 -3.0%
Americas 26 2,001.2 -1.2%
Africa 37 692.3 +4.5%