Primary energy consumption
- World total
- 170,440
- across 79 countries, 2024
- Latest observation
- 2024
- Source updated
- 27 Apr 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
- 30 – 192
- 192 – 339
- 339 – 616
- 616 – 1,126
- 1,126 – 2,310
- 2,310 – 48,987
- No data
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, 2024.
Highest 5
- 48,987
- 26,529
- 11,336
- 9,049
- 4,795
Source: Our World in Data — energy · primary_energy_consumption
Lowest 5
Source: Our World in Data — energy · primary_energy_consumption
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- terawatt-hours (TWh)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- sum · No direction
- Valid range
- 0 – ∞
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source205 countries · 9,783 obs. · → 2024 · CC BY 4.0
OWID Energy dataset — https://github.com/owid/energy-data
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
139 of 218 countries have no value for 2024.
- Nigeria
- Ethiopia
- DR Congo
- Tanzania
- Kenya
- Myanmar
- Sudan
- Uganda
- Afghanistan
- Yemen
- Angola
- Mozambique
- Ghana
- Madagascar
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cameroon
- Nepal
- Niger
- North Korea
- Syria
- Mali
- Burkina Faso
- Malawi
- Zambia
- 115 more
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=primary-energy-consumption" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'