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Dataset · EIA
Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP)
37 years, 1988–2024 · 192 countries
Energy intensity is how much energy a country uses to produce each dollar of its economic output, with GDP compared at purchasing power parities. It is the measure behind the UN goal to improve energy efficiency: a falling figure means an economy is getting more out of each unit of energy.
This site holds every year from 1988 to 2024, read from EIA’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP) · the file
- Newest
- Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2024
- Held
- 37 years · 6,863 rows
- Licence
- Public domain or CC0
0137 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2024Newest | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2023 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2022 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2021 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2020 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2019 | 192 | −2 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2018 | 194 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2017 | 194 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2016 | 194 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2015 | 194 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2014 | 194 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2013 | 194 | +1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 37 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: energy-intensity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 192 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 192 | 0 | |
Energy use per dollar of GDP (thousand Btu per US$ at PPP)energy_intensityHeadline | The headline figure: Energy use per dollar of GDP (thousand Btu per US$ at PPP). | Number · up to 16 decimals | 0.6661 Chad17.4532 Turkmenistanmiddle 2.7382 | 192 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.
03194 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| Asia | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| Oceania | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| All | 194 | 194 | 194 | 194 | 194 | 194 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 |
The newest 12 of 37 years.
Who joined and who left
− American Samoa
− Guam
+ Djibouti
+ South Sudan
+ Kosovo
+ Montenegro
+ Serbia
+ Timor-Leste
+ KazakhstanNot in this dataset · 30 places this site covers
EIA gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
Andorra
AnguillaChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Iceland
Isle of Man
Liechtenstein
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Monaco
Montserrat
Nauru
New Caledonia
Niue
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Saint Martin
San Marino
Sint MaartenSomaliland
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
2 · Their file
Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP) 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
37 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as energy-intensity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 16 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the U.S. Energy Information Administration's International Energy Statistics, read from its public bulk download. The ratio is EIA's own, computed from its energy balances and its GDP series; the zeros EIA uses for missing readings are left out.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 26, 2026
Public domain (U.S. government work)
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
No conditions at all. Crediting the publisher is still the courteous thing to do.
In plain words
A work of the United States government, which has no copyright in the United States.
A credit line
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 1988–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/energy-intensity
The publisher’s own citation: Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). International Energy Statistics — Energy consumption per GDP (thousand Btu per USD at purchasing power parities).
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP) by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
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07Questions
Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP): questions and answers
What is the Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP)?
Energy intensity is how much energy a country uses to produce each dollar of its economic output, with GDP compared at purchasing power parities. It is the measure behind the UN goal to improve energy efficiency: a falling figure means an economy is getting more out of each unit of energy.
Which years of the Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP) can I download?
All 37, from 1988 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does EIA rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under Public domain, with credit to EIA. The licence text is linked on this page.