The numbers for now and in the future while most educated people know that there are around 8 billion people very few know how much energy the world uses.
World energy consumption 2017 in watts.
According to the iea the total world energy consumption in past years was 143 851 twh in 2008 133 602 twh in 2005 117 687 twh in 2000 and 102 569 twh in 1990.
In 2017 the world s electricity consumption amounted to approximately 22 3 trillion kilowatt hours.
World energy consumption in a nutshell is the total energy consumed by our civilization.
It computes the total consumption based on the amount of energy we harness and the amount of energy we consume 1.
Commercial residential industrial and transportation.
We use energy in several ways.
The rapid deployment and falling costs of clean energy technologies the growing electrification of energy the shift to a more services oriented economy and a cleaner energy mix in china and the resilience of shale gas and tight oil in the united states.
Coal consumption of 11 3 quads in 2019 was equal to about 50 of the peak of consumption in 2005.
It is measured per year across all countries.
China for example consumes the most coal in the world and is the third largest consumer of oil.
Dry natural gas production has exceeded u s.
The united states energy information administration eia regularly publishes a report on world consumption for most types of primary energy resources.
Natural gas production reached a record high of 34 9 quads in 2019 following record high production in 2018 and in 2017.
Natural gas consumption since 2017 which had not occurred since 1966.
Despite the consequences of fossil fuels which most famously include global warming the world is hungry for them and consumes them at a rate 100 000 times that at which they re formed source.
Energy consumption increased at a slower pace than in previous years in china 3 2 the world s largest consumer since 2009 in russia 1 8 and in india 0 8 only.
For 2013 estimated world energy consumption was 5 67 10 20 joules or 157 481 twh.
Solar energy international the use of fossil fuels in developing countries has quadrupled since 1970.
Four large scale shifts in the global energy system set the scene for the world energy outlook 2017.
Very broadly speaking the more energy we consume the more stuff we can get the more places we can and the faster we can get there.
Global consumption of electricity.