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Gas production per capita
Measured in per capita.
Source
Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2025); The Shift Data Portal (2019); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
June 27, 2025
Next expected update
June 2026
Date range
1900–2024
Unit
kilowatt-hours

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy

The Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy analyses data on world energy markets from the prior year.

Retrieved on
June 27, 2025
Retrieved from
https://www.energyinst.org/statistical-review/
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2025).

The Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy analyses data on world energy markets from the prior year.

Retrieved on
June 27, 2025
Retrieved from
https://www.energyinst.org/statistical-review/
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2025).

The Shift Data Portal – Energy production from fossil fuels

The data on energy production from fossil fuels provided by The Shift Data Portal is based on the following sources:

  • For the period 1900-1980: Bouda Etemad and Jean Luciani, World Energy Production 1900 - 1985, ISBN 2-600-56007-6, Data digitalized and published with agreement of B. Etemad.
  • For the period 1980-2016: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Historical Statistics for 1980-2016, accessed on 2019-06-05.
Retrieved on
December 12, 2023
Retrieved from
https://www.theshiftdataportal.org/
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
The Shift Data Portal - Energy production from fossil fuels (2023).

The data on energy production from fossil fuels provided by The Shift Data Portal is based on the following sources:

  • For the period 1900-1980: Bouda Etemad and Jean Luciani, World Energy Production 1900 - 1985, ISBN 2-600-56007-6, Data digitalized and published with agreement of B. Etemad.
  • For the period 1980-2016: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Historical Statistics for 1980-2016, accessed on 2019-06-05.
Retrieved on
December 12, 2023
Retrieved from
https://www.theshiftdataportal.org/
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
The Shift Data Portal - Energy production from fossil fuels (2023).

Various sources – Population

Our World in Data builds and maintains a long-run dataset on population by country, region, and for the world, based on various sources.

You can find more information on these sources and how our time series is constructed on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources

Retrieved on
July 11, 2024
Retrieved from
https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
The long-run data on population is based on various sources, described on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources

Our World in Data builds and maintains a long-run dataset on population by country, region, and for the world, based on various sources.

You can find more information on these sources and how our time series is constructed on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources

Retrieved on
July 11, 2024
Retrieved from
https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
The long-run data on population is based on various sources, described on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources

How we process data at Our World in Data

All data and visualizations on Our World in Data rely on data sourced from one or several original data providers. Preparing this original data involves several processing steps. Depending on the data, this can include standardizing country names and world region definitions, converting units, calculating derived indicators such as per capita measures, as well as adding or adapting metadata such as the name or the description given to an indicator.

At the link below you can find a detailed description of the structure of our data pipeline, including links to all the code used to prepare data across Our World in Data.

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Notes on our processing step for this indicator
  • The data is generated by combining the latest data from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy and The Shift Dataportal. The Energy Institute provides fossil fuel production data from 1965 onwards (and crude prices from 1861 onwards). The Shift Dataportal provides long-term data from 1900, but only extends to 2016. To maintain consistency with other energy data, we prioritize the Energy Institute data - meaning if they provide data for the given country and year, this data is used. Where data is not available from the Energy Institute for a given country, or pre-1965 we rely on data from The Shift Dataportal.
  • We have converted primary production in exajoules to terawatt-hours using the conversion factor: 1,000,000 / 3,600 ~ 278.
  • Production per capita has been calculated by dividing by our population dataset, based on different sources.

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Citations

How to cite this page

To cite this page overall, including any descriptions, FAQs or explanations of the data authored by Our World in Data, please use the following citation:

“Data Page: Gas production per capita”, part of the following publication: Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado, and Max Roser (2023) - “Energy”. Data adapted from Energy Institute, The Shift Data Portal, Various sources. Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/gas-prod-per-capita.html [online resource] (archived on March 4, 2026).

How to cite this data

In-line citationIf you have limited space (e.g. in data visualizations), you can use this abbreviated in-line citation:

Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2025); The Shift Data Portal (2019); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data

Full citation

Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2025); The Shift Data Portal (2019); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Gas production per capita” [dataset]. Energy Institute, “Statistical Review of World Energy”; The Shift Data Portal, “Energy production from fossil fuels”; Various sources, “Population” [original data]. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/gas-prod-per-capita.html (archived on March 4, 2026).

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=IMPORTDATA("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gas-prod-per-capita.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Python with Pandas
import pandas as pd
import requests

# Fetch the data.
df = pd.read_csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gas-prod-per-capita.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", storage_options = {'User-Agent': 'Our World In Data data fetch/1.0'})

# Fetch the metadata
metadata = requests.get("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gas-prod-per-capita.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false").json()
R
library(jsonlite)

# Fetch the data
df <- read.csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gas-prod-per-capita.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")

# Fetch the metadata
metadata <- fromJSON("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gas-prod-per-capita.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Stata
import delimited "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gas-prod-per-capita.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", encoding("utf-8") clear