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For reference for anyone curious: the US has a final energy consumption of 6.0kW per capita, the EU average is about 2.9kW. (2009 data)

At that point, China was at 1.3kW/citizen, Africa at half that, India on the level of Africa and the middle East slightly below the EU with 2.3kW.

Wikipedia [2] uses world bank data instead which seems to measure differntly, but the relations are roughtly the same.

1: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/final-energy...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_co...

parent wongarsu 8 years ago

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