Energy Consumption & Human Development

Population thresholds: 1B = the world's lowest-energy billion people all live at or below this consumption level; 4B = the lowest-consuming four billion live at or below this level. Computed by sorting countries by per-capita energy and accumulating population. The red dashed trend is a population-weighted mean HDI across log-spaced energy bins, computed from the same data. Dot size = population. Values are the latest available year per country per series; hover a dot for exact years.

Sources (retrieved via the Our World in Data Chart API; OWID content CC-BY, underlying data subject to original providers' terms):
• Primary energy consumption per capita — U.S. Energy Information Administration; Energy Institute, Statistical Review of World Energy; population from various sources — with major processing by Our World in Data.
• Human Development Index — UNDP, Human Development Report — with minor processing by Our World in Data.
• Population — HYDE; Gapminder; UN World Population Prospects — with major processing by Our World in Data.
• Continent classifications — Our World in Data (North America and South America merged into "Americas").