Dataset · World Energy Council
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.
World Energy Trilemma Index · the file
- Newest
- World Energy Trilemma Index, 2023
- Held
- 1 year · 126 rows
- Licence
- Other open terms
01One year
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Energy Trilemma Index, 2023 | 126 | — | September 5, 2026 | CSV |
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
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank | World Energy Council’s own rank, exactly as printed. | Number · whole numbers | 12 share it99 | 99 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 126 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 126 | 0 | |
Trilemma score (0–100)trilemma_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: Trilemma score (0–100). | Number · up to 1 decimal | 27.7 | 114 | 0 | |
Energy securityenergy_securityPart of the headline | How reliably the country can meet current and future energy demand and recover from supply shocks, scored 0–100. | Number · up to 1 decimal | 31.4 | 106 | 0 | |
Energy equityenergy_equityPart of the headline | How accessible and affordable energy is for households and businesses, scored 0–100. | Number · up to 1 decimal | 4.3 | 114 | 0 | |
Environmental sustainabilityenvironmental_sustainabilityPart of the headline | How far the energy system is moving to avoid environmental harm and the effects of climate change, scored 0–100. | Number · up to 1 decimal | 34.4 | 106 | 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 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.
| 2023 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 29 |
| Americas | 21 |
| Asia | 37 |
| Europe | 37 |
| Oceania | 2 |
| All | 126 |
One year, covering 126 countries.
Not in this dataset · 99 places this site covers
World Energy Council 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.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Energy Council
2 · Their file
World Energy Trilemma Index 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 5, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per year
It downloads as a CSV: energy-trilemma-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · 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.
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.