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World Energy Trilemma Index

World Energy Trilemma Index, 2023 · 126 countries · 4 measures

The World Energy Trilemma Index scores how well a country balances three goals that pull against each other: energy security, energy equity and environmental sustainability. The World Energy Council rates each out of 100 and combines them — all three dimensions are stored beside the overall score.

This site holds one year, World Energy Trilemma Index, 2023, read from World Energy Council’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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World Energy Trilemma Index, 2023
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1 year · 126 rows
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01One year

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every year of World Energy Trilemma Index held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
World Energy Trilemma Index, 2023126—September 5, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: energy-trilemma-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

027 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.

Trilemma score (0–100)is built fromEnergy securityEnergy equityEnvironmental sustainability

Every column in the newest file of World Energy Trilemma Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2023DistinctEmptySpread
Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rankWorld Energy Council’s own rank, exactly as printed.Number · whole numbers12 share it99Nigermiddle 48990
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1260
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1260
Trilemma score (0–100)trilemma_scoreHeadlineThe headline figure: Trilemma score (0–100).Number · up to 1 decimal27.7Niger83.2Denmarkmiddle 63.81140
Energy securityenergy_securityPart of the headlineHow reliably the country can meet current and future energy demand and recover from supply shocks, scored 0–100.Number · up to 1 decimal31.4Lebanon76.6Canadamiddle 57.71060
Energy equityenergy_equityPart of the headlineHow accessible and affordable energy is for households and businesses, scored 0–100.Number · up to 1 decimal4.3Malawi99.93 share itmiddle 74.41140
Environmental sustainabilityenvironmental_sustainabilityPart of the headlineHow far the energy system is moving to avoid environmental harm and the effects of climate change, scored 0–100.Number · up to 1 decimal34.4Trinidad and Tobago85.7Switzerlandmiddle 66.81060

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 better result.

03126 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.

All regions
Countries in each year of World Energy Trilemma Index, by continent.
2023
Africa29
Americas21
Asia37
Europe37
Oceania2
All126

One year, covering 126 countries.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Energy Council

  2. 2 · Their file

    World Energy Trilemma Index 2023

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 5, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per year

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/energy-trilemmaA key for Energy in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored to 1 decimal, 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 2023 Index, published as the World Energy Trilemma Report 2024. Seven tracked countries the Council leaves unranked — Barbados, Libya, Syria, Taiwan, Ukraine, Venezuela and Yemen — are not included.

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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 5, 2026

Express reuse grant (no Creative Commons licence named)

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher

The publisher’s own written permission to reuse, commercial use included. Read the terms before republishing.

In plain words

The World Energy Council allows reuse on one condition: every copy must carry the sentence “Used by permission of the World Energy Council.”

A credit line

World Energy Council. World Energy Trilemma Index. London: World Energy Council. Used by permission of the World Energy Council.

Cite this dataset

World Energy Council. World Energy Trilemma Index, World Energy Trilemma Index, 2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/energy-trilemma

The publisher’s own citation: World Energy Council. World Energy Trilemma Index. London: World Energy Council. Used by permission of the World Energy Council.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

World Energy Trilemma Index: questions and answers

What is the World Energy Trilemma Index?

The World Energy Trilemma Index scores how well a country balances three goals that pull against each other: energy security, energy equity and environmental sustainability. The World Energy Council rates each out of 100 and combines them — all three dimensions are stored beside the overall score.

Which years of the World Energy Trilemma Index can I download?

One: World Energy Trilemma Index, 2023, as a CSV file.

Does World Energy Council rank countries on it?

Yes. The rank in these files is World Energy Council’s own, exactly as printed.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under Express reuse grant, with credit to World Energy Council. The licence text is linked on this page.

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