Energy imports, net (% of energy use)
- World average (population-weighted)
- 18.2 %
- across 67 countries, 2023
- Latest observation
- 2023
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
No data available
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2023.
Highest 5
- 403.6 %
- 279.6 %
- 109.6 %
- 93.6 %
- 89.2 %
Source: World Bank — WDI · EG.IMP.CONS.ZS
Lowest 5
Source: World Bank — WDI · EG.IMP.CONS.ZS
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
No series for the selected countries.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- % of energy use (%)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · No direction
- Valid range
- -2000 – 100
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source145 countries · 4,399 obs. · → 2023 · CC BY 4.0
Net energy imports are estimated as gross imports less gross exports, both measured in tons of oil equivalents (toe). A negative value indicates that the country is a net exporter. Energy use refers to use of primary energy before transformation to other end-use fuels, which is equal to indigenous production plus imports and stock changes, minus exports and fuels supplied to ships and aircraft engaged in international transport. Source: IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=energy-imports-share" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'