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Total electricity demand per person

Ember and Energy Institute
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Total electricity demand per person
Ember and Energy Institute
Measured in per person.
Source
Ember (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
May 12, 2025
Next expected update
May 2026
Date range
1990–2024
Unit
kilowatt-hours

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

This dataset contains yearly electricity generation, capacity, emissions, import and demand data for over European countries.

You can find more about Ember's methodology in this document.

Retrieved on
May 12, 2025
Retrieved from
https://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/
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.
Ember - Yearly Electricity Data Europe (2025).
Most of the data is taken from the European Commission's Eurostat annual data.

This dataset contains yearly electricity generation, capacity, emissions, import and demand data for over 200 geographies.

You can find more about Ember's methodology in this document.

Retrieved on
May 12, 2025
Retrieved from
https://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/
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.
Ember - Yearly Electricity Data (2025).
The data is collected from multi-country datasets (EIA, Eurostat, Energy Institute, UN) as well as national sources (e.g China data from the National Bureau of Statistics).

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

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Citations

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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: Total electricity demand per person”, part of the following publication: Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado, and Max Roser (2023) - “Energy”. Data adapted from Ember, Various sources. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-electricity-demand [online resource]
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:

Ember (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data

Full citation

Ember (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Total electricity demand per person – Ember and Energy Institute” [dataset]. Ember, “Yearly Electricity Data Europe”; Ember, “Yearly Electricity Data”; Various sources, “Population” [original data]. Retrieved May 22, 2025 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-electricity-demand