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Total primary energy consumption

Total energy each country and the world use each year since 1980, counting every fuel, as accounted for by the US Energy Information Administration.

Latest value

606.04quad Btu

Countries and territories, and the world, 2024. Version Sep 2026.

Total primary energy consumption (quadrillion British thermal units)

45 values from 1980 to 2024.
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Total primary energy consumption, every value
PeriodValue (quad Btu)Status
1980280.98final
1981277.20final
1982277.13final
1983280.39final
1984293.63final
1985301.65final
1986308.09final
1987318.61final
1988331.05final
1989336.69final
1990338.00final
1991337.88final
1992337.15final
1993339.15final
1994342.75final
1995351.82final
1996361.30final
1997362.35final
1998364.53final
1999371.31final
2000383.71final
2001386.59final
2002395.30final
2003409.65final
2004430.96final
2005444.81final
2006459.05final
2007472.04final
2008477.60final
2009471.82final
2010503.19final
2011516.64final
2012526.10final
2013534.43final
2014538.28final
2015538.50final
2016544.10final
2017549.30final
2018562.24final
2019570.55final
2020546.50final
2021573.04final
2022579.32final
2023592.03final
2024606.04final
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). Public domain (work of the US federal government).

Where it comes from

Producer
U.S. Energy Information Administration · International energy data
Version
Sep 2026
File
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulk/INTL.zip
Fetched
2026-10-05 (automatically), 24,153,479 bytes
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sha256 9251a5920ebe70448fc7af522c4f938dc9e1f4728aca2928ecc814ca9f216ea9ETag "80a6e6761c53dd1:0" · Last-Modified Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:49:21 GMT
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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026).
Producer
U.S. Energy Information Administration · International energy data
Version
Sep 2026
File
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/bulk/manifest.txt
Fetched
2026-10-05 (automatically), 28,398 bytes
Fingerprint
sha256 1e1d2b9f467bc5032ffe87dd0ff1ab8a3a223d27d0f777fc0a4710cf95cdf372ETag "044131b054dd1:0" · Last-Modified Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:58:00 GMT
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No Wayback copy recorded yet.Our copy of the exact file
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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026).

What was done to it

  1. Read INTL.txt from EIA's bulk file INTL.zip. EIA's bulk manifest gives the INTL release as last updated 30 September 2026 and names this zip as its file, so the vintage is 'Sep 2026'. The zip was last modified on the server on Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:49:21 GMT.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eia_international.py · code sha256 6e68eab86d8f8c96… · inputs 9251a5920ebe… 1e1d2b9f467b…

  2. Kept the annual consumption series in quadrillion Btu: total energy consumption and its five fuels (coal, natural gas, petroleum and other liquids, nuclear, renewables and other), checking each series' name and units. Kept the World and the 220 countries and territories in pipeline/geo/entities.csv, matched by EIA's ISO 3 code (EIA's XKS is Kosovo, KOS, and its SCG, Former Serbia and Montenegro, is Serbia and Montenegro as reported together, SRB_MNE); EIA's regional aggregates are left out, and so are these geographies, which have no entity in the crosswalk: Former Czechoslovakia; Former U.S.S.R.; Former Yugoslavia; Germany, East; Germany, West; Hawaiian Trade Zone; Netherlands Antilles; U.S. Pacific Islands; U.S. Territories; Wake Island.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eia_international.py · code sha256 6e68eab86d8f8c96… · inputs 9251a5920ebe… 1e1d2b9f467b…

  3. Checked EIA's accounting method against its own generation series: for every country other than the United States, the energy content of hydro, wind, solar, geothermal and tide and wave electricity is 3,412 Btu per kilowatt-hour, the captured-energy approach (11,140 country-years checked). Not on that basis in this file: USA: 72 values, e.g. solar 2023 3676, solar 2024 3622 Btu per kWh. World nuclear consumption is 10,379 Btu per kilowatt-hour of nuclear generation in 2024, the heat input of the plants.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eia_international.py · code sha256 6e68eab86d8f8c96… · inputs 9251a5920ebe… 1e1d2b9f467b…

  4. Where EIA's total differs from the sum of its five fuel series, both are published as given. Entities where they differ in this vintage: USA, WLD (World 2024: total minus the sum is -1.442 quad Btu).

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eia_international.py · code sha256 6e68eab86d8f8c96… · inputs 9251a5920ebe… 1e1d2b9f467b…

  5. EIA's codes '--', 'NA' and 'ie' (which the file does not define) are null values whose reason quotes the code.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eia_international.py · code sha256 6e68eab86d8f8c96… · inputs 9251a5920ebe… 1e1d2b9f467b…

  6. Published EIA's total energy consumption as given.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eia_international.py · code sha256 6e68eab86d8f8c96… · inputs 9251a5920ebe… 1e1d2b9f467b…

What it covers

Geography
Countries and territories, and the world
Basis
Primary energy consumption as EIA accounts for it: fossil fuels at their heat content; electricity from hydro, wind, solar, geothermal and tide and wave power at its own energy content, 3,412 Btu per kilowatt-hour (the captured-energy approach; EIA's United States series depart from it for solar and geothermal); nuclear at the heat input of the plants. Not comparable with totals from the Energy Institute or the IEA, which count non-combustible electricity differently. 'Renewables and other' is EIA's own category and can be negative.
Unit
quadrillion British thermal units (quad Btu)