Dataset · EIA

Primary Energy Consumption per Capita

45 years, 1980–2024 · 192 countries

This is how much primary energy — coal, oil, gas, nuclear and renewable power — a country consumes in a year for each person who lives there. It shows how energy-hungry an economy and its daily life are, from homes and cars to factories and refineries.

This site holds every year from 1980 to 2024, read from EIA’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Primary Energy Consumption per Capita · the file

Newest: Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2024
Held: 45 years · 8,221 rows
Licence: Public domain or CC0

45years held
1980–2024years
8,221rows across every year
192countries in the newest194 across every year
1measure
Public domain or CC0licence

0145 years

Every year

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

1980bar height: countries covered, up to 1942024

Every year of Primary Energy Consumption per Capita held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2024Newest	192	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2023	192	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2022	192	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2021	192	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2020	192	−2	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2019	194	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2018	194	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2017	194	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2016	194	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2015	194	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2014	194	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2013	194	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV

Show all 45 years

Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2012	194	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2011	193	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2010	193	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2009	193	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2008	193	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2007	192	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2006	192	+2	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2005	190	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2004	190	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2003	190	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2002	189	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2001	189	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 2000	189	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1999	189	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1998	189	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1997	189	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1996	188	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1995	188	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1994	188	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1993	187	+2	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1992	185	+19	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1991	166	+2	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1990	164	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1989	163	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1988	162	+4	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1987	158	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1986	158	+1	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1985	157	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1984	157	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1983	157	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1982	157	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1981	157	±0	September 26, 2026	CSV
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1980	157	—	September 26, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: energy-use-per-capita-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.

Every column in the newest file of Primary Energy Consumption per Capita: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	192
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	192
Energy use per person (million Btu)`energy_per_capita`Headline	The headline figure: Energy use per person (million Btu).	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.950Burundi766.065Qatarmiddle 49.502	192

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. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

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.

All regions

Countries in each year of Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, by continent.
	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	11	9	9	9	9	9
All	194	194	194	194	194	194	194	192	192	192	192	192

The newest 12 of 45 years.

Who joined and who left

2020
− American Samoa− Guam
2012
+ South Sudan
2008
+ Kosovo
2006
+ Montenegro+ Serbia
2003
+ Timor-Leste
1997
+ Palestine
1994
+ Eritrea
1993
+ Czechia+ Slovakia

Not 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.

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 · Publisher
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
eia.gov
2 · Their file
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita 2024
INTL.zip
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
45 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as energy-use-per-capita-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/energy-use-per-capita

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 per-person figure is EIA's own, computed from its energy balances and its population 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.

Every publisher’s terms

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), Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, 1980–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/energy-use-per-capita

The publisher’s own citation: Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). International Energy Statistics — Energy consumption per capita (million Btu per person).

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
Primary Energy Consumption per Capita by country
Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
- Energy
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