World Renewable Energy Consumption
DATASETS
total
share of primary energy
by source
Countries
World
Unit
TWh
Type
Consumption
Chart Type
1980
2016
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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.
