Brief review of world trends in technology: Part 2. World Energy Production and Use
Click here to go back to reports page.I Summary
1. Overall, there has been an increase in production and
consumption of energy.
2. In 2002, for the world as a whole, petroleum was the primary
energy source, followed by coal, then dry natural gas (EIA
overview).
3. Over this 22 year period, in the OECD countries, natural gas and nuclear energy became increasingly important as sources of energy.
4. In non OECD countries, as a group, use of petroleum increased, as did use of coal and natural gas. Use of hydroelectric and nuclear energy as sources of energy also increased although these sources remained a small percentage of total energy.
5. “The United States, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and Canada were the world's five largest producers of energy in 2002, supplying 48.6 percent of the world's total energy.” In addition, “The United States, China, Russia, Japan, and Germany were the world's five largest consumers of primary energy in 2002, accounting for 49.8 percent of world energy consumption.” (EIA overview page, 2004).
6. In 2002, three of those countries, China, Russia and the US, together produced 39% of world energy and consumed 41%.
7. Most of the countries with the lowest energy consumption per capita, both in 1980 and 2002, were in Africa and Asia and Oceana. The countries with the highest energy consumption per capita were in mainly in Asia and Oceania, the Middle East, North America and Western Europe.
8. Two countries with high energy consumption per capita (Unites States and Canada) have large combined populations so most of the people who live in countries with high energy consumption per capita live in North America.
II Detailed Data
Energy Production
Energy Consumption
Energy consumption per capita
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Countries with lowest energy consumption per capita in 1980
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Countries with highest energy consumption per capita in 1980
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Countries with lowest energy consumption per capita in 2002
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Countries with highest energy consumption per capita in 2002
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III Appendix
A. Comparison with other data sources:
Key World Energy Statistics, from the International Energy Agency, http://www.iea.org/. Go to their publications page http://www.iea.org/publications/index.asp and search for this title. This report shows a number of points similar to the US EIA reports. For example, the KWES similarly shows world energy production increasing, that petroleum or oil is the major source for energy consumption, and that the share of gas and nuclear energy as sources of energy production are increasing in the OECD.
B. Data
All data are based on the following tables:
Table 2.9 World Production of Primary Energy by Energy Type and
Selected Country Groups (Quadrillion Btu) ,
1980-2002 http://www.eia.gov/emeu/iea/wepbtu.html
Table 1.8 World Consumption of Primary Energy by Energy Type and
Selected Country Groups (Quadrillion Btu), 1980-2002
http://www.eia.gov/emeu/iea/wecbtu.html
E.1c World Per Capita Total Primary Energy Consumption (Million Btu), 1980-2002. http://www.eia.gov/emeu/iea/wecbtu.html
Prepared by Gene Shackman, Wang Xun and Ya-Lin Liu
First Copyright September 2004. May be used
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Shackman, Gene, Xun Wang and Ya-Lin Liu. 2004. Brief review of
trends in world energy production and use. Available at
http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/energ/energytrends.htm
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