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Data for 1990
Figures for 1990, as EIA published them · stored as published, never rewritten
Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 1990 covers 158 countries. North Korea is highest, at 19.2011; Cambodia is lowest, at 0.3861. The middle country reads 2.9940. Against 1989, 149 values changed (74 up, 75 down), 9 countries joined.
Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP) · Data for 1990
HighestNorth Korea
19.2011LowestCambodia
0.3861Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.
01Values only
Every country and every column of Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 1990, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.
Showing 25 of 158 countries · select a heading to sort
| 19.2011 | |
| 16.6952 | |
| 13.0542 | |
| 12.6665 | |
| 10.7862 | |
| 10.0984 | |
| 9.5660 | |
| 9.4362 | |
| 9.4244 | |
| 9.2977 | |
| 8.4214 | |
| 8.4061 | |
| 7.4037 | |
| 7.1964 | |
| 7.0902 | |
| 6.9425 | |
| 6.9162 | |
| 6.6125 | |
| 6.5997 | |
| 6.5554 | |
| 6.4390 | |
| 6.3693 | |
| 6.3063 | |
| 6.2240 | |
| 6.1883 | |
| 6.1286 | |
| 5.9184 | |
| 5.9157 | |
| 5.9116 | |
| 5.8693 | |
| 5.8421 | |
| 5.7491 | |
| 5.5486 | |
| 5.5422 | |
| 5.4730 | |
| 5.3270 | |
| 5.0829 | |
| 5.0573 | |
| 5.0565 | |
| 4.9583 | |
| 4.9170 | |
| 4.7722 | |
| 4.7241 | |
| 4.7140 | |
| 4.6377 | |
| 4.6124 | |
| 4.5639 | |
| 4.4491 | |
| 4.3739 | |
| 4.3628 | |
| 4.3573 | |
| 4.3183 | |
| 4.2579 | |
| 4.2206 | |
| 4.1421 | |
| 4.0997 | |
| 4.0101 | |
| 3.9743 | |
| 3.8347 | |
| 3.8240 | |
| 3.8203 | |
| 3.8121 | |
| 3.7941 | |
| 3.7596 | |
| 3.7562 | |
| 3.7437 | |
| 3.7066 | |
| 3.6518 | |
| 3.5786 | |
| 3.5343 | |
| 3.5293 | |
| 3.4216 | |
| 3.3811 | |
| 3.3543 | |
| 3.1609 | |
| 3.0895 | |
| 3.0797 | |
| 3.0121 | |
| 2.9972 | |
| 2.9908 | |
| 2.9888 | |
| 2.9406 | |
| 2.9046 | |
| 2.8993 | |
| 2.8524 | |
| 2.8505 | |
| 2.7913 | |
| 2.7662 | |
| 2.7210 | |
| 2.6613 | |
| 2.6550 | |
| 2.6319 | |
| 2.6046 | |
| 2.5867 | |
| 2.5822 | |
| 2.5571 | |
| 2.4625 | |
| 2.4133 | |
| 2.3971 | |
| 2.3648 | |
| 2.3293 | |
| 2.3091 | |
| 2.2881 | |
| 2.2809 | |
| 2.2116 | |
| 2.1789 | |
| 2.0643 | |
| 2.0121 | |
| 2.0022 | |
| 1.9467 | |
| 1.9381 | |
| 1.9182 | |
| 1.8024 | |
| 1.6970 | |
| 1.6855 | |
| 1.6426 | |
| 1.6260 | |
| 1.5999 | |
| 1.5657 | |
| 1.5436 | |
| 1.5205 | |
| 1.4564 | |
| 1.4456 | |
| 1.4229 | |
| 1.4065 | |
| 1.3676 | |
| 1.3455 | |
| 1.3446 | |
| 1.3374 | |
| 1.2971 | |
| 1.2876 | |
| 1.2821 | |
| 1.2610 | |
| 1.2282 | |
| 1.2259 | |
| 1.2176 | |
| 1.2093 | |
| 1.2012 | |
| 1.1439 | |
| 1.1080 | |
| 1.0733 | |
| 1.0237 | |
| 0.9321 | |
| 0.9244 | |
| 0.8910 | |
| 0.8405 | |
| 0.8059 | |
| 0.7980 | |
| 0.7553 | |
| 0.7474 | |
| 0.6755 | |
| 0.6706 | |
| 0.5823 | |
| 0.5527 | |
| 0.5475 | |
| 0.4661 | |
| 0.4108 | |
| 0.3861 |
02In 1990
The 5 countries at each end of the headline.
031989 → 1990
What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.
Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.
04Caveats
What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.
Which end is better
A higher value is the worse result.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 158 countries has every column.
05The files
The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.
For a spreadsheet or code
158 rows · 6.3 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel
Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.
Download energy-intensity-1990-nations-inquiry.csvThe publisher’s original
EIA’s own file, on its own site.
INTL.zipWhat this site changed: 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.
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Cite this edition
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) (1990). Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/energy-intensity/1990
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How it has moved, charted by country07Questions
North Korea, at 19.2011, of the 158 countries in the file.
1990.
158.
On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.
No. The newest held here is Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP), 2024.