World Primary Energy Production
About
Primary Energy Production
Primary production of energy is any extraction of energy products in a useable form from natural sources. This occurs either when natural sources are exploited (for example, in coal mines, crude oil fields, hydro power plants) or in the fabrication of biofuels.
Transforming energy from one form into another, such as electricity or heat generation in thermal power plants (where primary energy sources are burned), or coke production in coke ovens, is not primary production
Primary Energy Consumption
Primary energy consumption measures the total energy demand of a country. It covers consumption of the energy sector itself, losses during transformation (for example, from oil or gas into electricity) and distribution of energy, and the final consumption by end users. It excludes energy carriers used for non-energy purposes (such as petroleum not used not for combustion but for producing plastics).
Data sources
Production (1900-2016)
- Etemad & Luciani for the period 1900-1980 Bouda Etemad and Jean Luciani, World Energy Production 1900 – 1985, ISBN 2-600-56007-6, Data digitalized and published with agreement of B. Etemad
- US EIA Historical Statistics for 1980-2016. U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed on 2019-06-05
Consumption (1980-2016)
- US EIA Historical Statistics for 1980-2016. U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed on 2019-06-05
Others
- GDP data : World Bank, accessed on 2019-05-02
- Population data : Free data from Gapminder.org: gapm.io/dpopv5, accessed on 2019-09-10
Accounting Conventions
Primary energy figures vary between sources given that different primary energy accounting conventions are used. We use the primary energy accounting conventions of the US EIA. For an overview of the different primary energy accounting conventions see Global Energy Outlooks Comparison Methods.
