Electricity consumption vs Fossil CO2 emissions per capita
Electricity consumption and Fossil CO2 emissions per capita worldwide, drawn over time. No period has an observed value for both, so the two are not set side by side.
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Over time
Global, annual figures, spaced by time . Different units, drawn on separate scales and clipped to the years both series publish; earlier history stays on each indicator’s own page. Read the values, not the heights.
Electricity consumption
Unit: terawatt-hours · 2 observations
Forecast: dashed line, hollow markers, shaded band
Fossil CO2 emissions per capita
Unit: tonnes per capita · 35 observations
Estimates are listed as such in the table below
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| Period | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Estimate | 4.27 tonnes per capita |
| 1991 | Estimate | 4.28 tonnes per capita |
| 1992 | Estimate | 4.09 tonnes per capita |
| 1993 | Estimate | 4.07 tonnes per capita |
| 1994 | Estimate | 4.05 tonnes per capita |
| 1995 | Estimate | 4.08 tonnes per capita |
| 1996 | Estimate | 4.15 tonnes per capita |
| 1997 | Estimate | 4.11 tonnes per capita |
| 1998 | Estimate | 4.04 tonnes per capita |
| 1999 | Estimate | 4.08 tonnes per capita |
| 2000 | Estimate | 4.13 tonnes per capita |
| 2001 | Estimate | 4.11 tonnes per capita |
| 2002 | Estimate | 4.14 tonnes per capita |
| 2003 | Estimate | 4.31 tonnes per capita |
| 2004 | Estimate | 4.4 tonnes per capita |
| 2005 | Estimate | 4.49 tonnes per capita |
| 2006 | Estimate | 4.59 tonnes per capita |
| 2007 | Estimate | 4.66 tonnes per capita |
| 2008 | Estimate | 4.68 tonnes per capita |
| 2009 | Estimate | 4.55 tonnes per capita |
| 2010 | Estimate | 4.74 tonnes per capita |
| 2011 | Estimate | 4.85 tonnes per capita |
| 2012 | Estimate | 4.85 tonnes per capita |
| 2013 | Estimate | 4.84 tonnes per capita |
| 2014 | Estimate | 4.8 tonnes per capita |
| 2015 | Estimate | 4.74 tonnes per capita |
| 2016 | Estimate | 4.68 tonnes per capita |
| 2017 | Estimate | 4.71 tonnes per capita |
| 2018 | Estimate | 4.75 tonnes per capita |
| 2019 | Estimate | 4.75 tonnes per capita |
| 2020 | Estimate | 4.46 tonnes per capita |
| 2021 | Estimate | 4.63 tonnes per capita |
| 2022 | Estimate | 4.68 tonnes per capita |
| 2023 | Estimate | 4.71 tonnes per capita |
| 2024 | Estimate | 4.73 tonnes per capita |
Shared periods
Side by side
The two series do not publish a figure for the same period.
Provenance
Where these numbers come from
Electricity consumption
Total volume of electric energy consumed.
2 observations charted in Global · source organisations: IEA
Fossil CO2 emissions per capita
Annual fossil carbon dioxide emissions per capita from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes.
35 observations charted in Global · source organisations: GCP
Data published under CC BY 4.0. Series A as JSON · Series B as JSON
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