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Per capita oil consumption

Average oil consumption per capita, measured in kilowatt-hours per person.

Oil consumption per capita kilowatt-hours
Country/area
2005
2023
Absolute Change
Relative Change
Algeria4,072 kWh5,223 kWh+1,151 kWh+28%
Argentina6,825 kWh8,551 kWh+1,726 kWh+25%
Australia23,731 kWh22,756 kWh-975 kWh-4%
Austria20,754 kWh15,072 kWh-5,682 kWh-27%
Azerbaijan7,370 kWh6,851 kWh-519 kWh-7%
Bangladesh334 kWh832 kWh+498 kWh+149%
Belarus8,655 kWh8,893 kWh+238 kWh+3%
Belgium37,082 kWh26,964 kWh-10,117 kWh-27%
Brazil5,898 kWh6,556 kWh+659 kWh+11%
Bulgaria7,593 kWh8,853 kWh+1,260 kWh+17%
Canada38,666 kWh31,171 kWh-7,496 kWh-19%
Chile9,596 kWh11,780 kWh+2,185 kWh+23%
China2,942 kWh6,376 kWh+3,435 kWh+117%
Colombia3,317 kWh5,211 kWh+1,895 kWh+57%
Croatia12,108 kWh10,059 kWh-2,049 kWh-17%
Cyprus33,246 kWh22,762 kWh-10,484 kWh-32%
Czechia11,591 kWh11,053 kWh-538 kWh-5%
Denmark20,127 kWh14,815 kWh-5,312 kWh-26%
Ecuador6,909 kWh8,839 kWh+1,929 kWh+28%
Egypt4,397 kWh3,681 kWh-716 kWh-16%
Estonia12,366 kWh11,849 kWh-518 kWh-4%
Finland24,147 kWh16,393 kWh-7,755 kWh-32%
France18,252 kWh11,858 kWh-6,394 kWh-35%
Germany17,978 kWh13,380 kWh-4,598 kWh-26%
Greece22,413 kWh16,640 kWh-5,773 kWh-26%
Hong Kong23,802 kWh21,266 kWh-2,535 kWh-11%
Hungary8,725 kWh9,210 kWh+485 kWh+6%
Iceland33,967 kWh25,939 kWh-8,028 kWh-24%
India1,256 kWh2,056 kWh+800 kWh+64%
Indonesia3,144 kWh3,099 kWh-45 kWh-1%
Iran12,968 kWh10,909 kWh-2,059 kWh-16%
Iraq9,775 kWh11,006 kWh+1,231 kWh+13%
Ireland27,064 kWh16,743 kWh-10,321 kWh-38%
Israel20,323 kWh13,462 kWh-6,862 kWh-34%
Italy17,860 kWh11,667 kWh-6,193 kWh-35%
Japan24,141 kWh14,993 kWh-9,147 kWh-38%
Kazakhstan6,954 kWh9,761 kWh+2,807 kWh+40%
Kuwait97,183 kWh49,095 kWh-48,088 kWh-49%
Latvia9,003 kWh10,726 kWh+1,723 kWh+19%
Lithuania9,966 kWh13,896 kWh+3,929 kWh+39%
Luxembourg80,360 kWh41,251 kWh-39,108 kWh-49%
Malaysia13,972 kWh14,466 kWh+495 kWh+4%
Mexico11,630 kWh8,298 kWh-3,331 kWh-29%
Morocco3,593 kWh4,188 kWh+596 kWh+17%
Netherlands35,016 kWh26,852 kWh-8,164 kWh-23%
New Zealand20,674 kWh16,950 kWh-3,724 kWh-18%
North Macedonia5,108 kWh6,743 kWh+1,635 kWh+32%
Norway24,884 kWh19,511 kWh-5,373 kWh-22%
Oman18,855 kWh27,873 kWh+9,018 kWh+48%
Pakistan1,043 kWh903 kWh-140 kWh-13%
Peru3,046 kWh4,195 kWh+1,149 kWh+38%
Philippines2,026 kWh2,209 kWh+183 kWh+9%
Poland6,910 kWh9,514 kWh+2,604 kWh+38%
Portugal18,292 kWh12,065 kWh-6,227 kWh-34%
Qatar52,724 kWh62,659 kWh+9,935 kWh+19%
Romania5,945 kWh6,360 kWh+415 kWh+7%
Russia10,388 kWh13,868 kWh+3,480 kWh+34%
Saudi Arabia46,480 kWh55,870 kWh+9,390 kWh+20%
Singapore108,940 kWh138,278 kWh+29,338 kWh+27%
Slovakia8,613 kWh8,685 kWh+73 kWh+1%
Slovenia15,186 kWh11,814 kWh-3,372 kWh-22%
South Africa6,084 kWh4,993 kWh-1,091 kWh-18%
South Korea26,211 kWh28,771 kWh+2,559 kWh+10%
Spain20,745 kWh15,013 kWh-5,732 kWh-28%
Sri Lanka2,601 kWh2,769 kWh+168 kWh+6%
Sweden21,752 kWh12,203 kWh-9,549 kWh-44%
Switzerland20,224 kWh12,207 kWh-8,017 kWh-40%
Taiwan24,475 kWh18,984 kWh-5,491 kWh-22%
Thailand8,252 kWh8,941 kWh+689 kWh+8%
Trinidad and Tobago17,092 kWh12,244 kWh-4,848 kWh-28%
Turkey5,347 kWh7,447 kWh+2,100 kWh+39%
Turkmenistan12,089 kWh11,880 kWh-208 kWh-2%
USSR
Ukraine3,629 kWh2,968 kWh-661 kWh-18%
United Arab Emirates68,423 kWh64,330 kWh-4,093 kWh-6%
United Kingdom16,590 kWh11,025 kWh-5,565 kWh-34%
United States37,786 kWh29,296 kWh-8,490 kWh-22%
Uzbekistan2,368 kWh1,753 kWh-615 kWh-26%
Venezuela12,137 kWh8,115 kWh-4,021 kWh-33%
Vietnam1,821 kWh3,358 kWh+1,537 kWh+84%
Other
Africa1,769 kWh1,615 kWh-154 kWh-9%
Asia4,366 kWh5,544 kWh+1,178 kWh+27%
Europe14,756 kWh12,533 kWh-2,222 kWh-15%
European Union (27)17,514 kWh13,270 kWh-4,244 kWh-24%
High-income countries26,483 kWh22,009 kWh-4,474 kWh-17%
Lower-middle-income countries1,409 kWh1,694 kWh+285 kWh+20%
North America27,549 kWh20,815 kWh-6,734 kWh-24%
Oceania16,684 kWh15,145 kWh-1,539 kWh-9%
South America6,028 kWh6,799 kWh+771 kWh+13%
Upper-middle-income countries5,064 kWh7,308 kWh+2,244 kWh+44%
World7,161 kWh6,782 kWh-379 kWh-5%
Data

Oil consumption per capita

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What you should know about this indicator

Includes inland demand plus international aviation and marine bunkers and refinery fuel and loss. Consumption of biogasoline (such as ethanol) and biodiesel are excluded while derivatives of coal and natural gas are included. Differences between the world consumption figures and world production statistics are accounted for by stock changes, consumption of non-petroleum additives and substitute fuels and unavoidable disparities in the definition, measurement or conversion of oil supply and demand data.

Oil consumption per capita
Measured in kilowatt-hours per person.
Source
Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2024); Population based on various sources (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
June 20, 2024
Next expected update
June 2025
Date range
1965–2023
Unit
kilowatt-hours

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Hannah Ritchie and Pablo Rosado

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Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

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

Retrieved on
June 20, 2024
Retrieved from
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Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2024).

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Retrieved on
March 31, 2023
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Per capita figures are calculated by dividing by a population dataset that is built and maintained by Our World in Data, based on different sources.

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