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Top 10 Countries Using the Most Energy per Person

Where each person uses the most energy, in kilograms of oil equivalent a year.

  • Updated 1 h ago
  • 📏 Ranked by energy use per person (kg of oil equivalent)
  • 🔄 Refreshed weekly
  • 📚 Source: World Bank Open Data
  1. Iceland

    Data year 2022

    16,248 kg oil eq.

    No change
  2. Qatar

    Data year 2024

    15,155 kg oil eq.

    No change
  3. Trinidad and Tobago

    Data year 2024

    10,506 kg oil eq.

    No change
  1. 4KuwaitData year 20249,893 kg oil eq.No change
  2. 5BahrainData year 20249,511 kg oil eq.No change
  3. 6Brunei DarussalamData year 20248,930 kg oil eq.No change
  4. 7United Arab EmiratesData year 20248,838 kg oil eq.No change
  5. 8CanadaData year 20247,119 kg oil eq.No change
  6. 9Saudi ArabiaData year 20246,676 kg oil eq.No change
  7. 10United StatesData year 20246,454 kg oil eq.No change
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  1. 11Russian FederationData year 20245,727 kg oil eq.No change
  2. 12FinlandData year 20225,647 kg oil eq.No change
  3. 13Korea, Rep.Data year 20225,564 kg oil eq.No change
  4. 14OmanData year 20245,422 kg oil eq.No change
  5. 15SingaporeData year 20245,246 kg oil eq.No change
  6. 16AustraliaData year 20245,000 kg oil eq.No change
  7. 17NorwayData year 20224,877 kg oil eq.No change
  8. 18TurkmenistanData year 20244,682 kg oil eq.No change
  9. 19LuxembourgData year 20244,522 kg oil eq.No change
  10. 20SwedenData year 20224,329 kg oil eq.No change
  11. 21BelgiumData year 20224,077 kg oil eq.No change
  12. 22CuracaoData year 20243,841 kg oil eq.No change
  13. 23KazakhstanData year 20243,619 kg oil eq.No change
  14. 24New ZealandData year 20243,572 kg oil eq.No change
  15. 25Iran, Islamic Rep.Data year 20243,456 kg oil eq.No change
  16. 26NetherlandsData year 20243,419 kg oil eq.No change
  17. 27CzechiaData year 20243,417 kg oil eq.No change
  18. 28LibyaData year 20243,322 kg oil eq.No change
  19. 29AustriaData year 20223,294 kg oil eq.No change
  20. 30GibraltarData year 20243,234 kg oil eq.No change
  21. 31FranceData year 20243,183 kg oil eq.No change
  22. 32MalaysiaData year 20243,176 kg oil eq.No change
  23. 33EstoniaData year 20243,098 kg oil eq.No change
  24. 34JapanData year 20243,004 kg oil eq.No change
  25. 35SloveniaData year 20222,999 kg oil eq.No change
  26. 36BelarusData year 20242,965 kg oil eq.No change
  27. 37ChinaData year 20242,947 kg oil eq.No change
  28. 38Slovak RepublicData year 20242,925 kg oil eq.No change
  29. 39GermanyData year 20242,874 kg oil eq.No change
  30. 40PolandData year 20242,622 kg oil eq.No change
  31. 41BulgariaData year 20242,608 kg oil eq.No change
  32. 42LithuaniaData year 20242,552 kg oil eq.No change
  33. 43HungaryData year 20242,521 kg oil eq.No change
  34. 44DenmarkData year 20222,493 kg oil eq.No change
  35. 45SwitzerlandData year 20242,483 kg oil eq.No change
  36. 46IrelandData year 20242,470 kg oil eq.No change
  37. 47IsraelData year 20222,443 kg oil eq.No change
  38. 48MongoliaData year 20242,396 kg oil eq.No change
  39. 49SerbiaData year 20242,370 kg oil eq.No change
  40. 50SpainData year 20242,306 kg oil eq.No change

How this list is ranked

Energy use per person (kg of oil equivalent) (World Bank indicator EG.USE.PCAP.KG.OE), latest year available for each country, from the last 6 years only.

Data from World Bank Open Data, refreshed weekly. Arrows show how each entry moved since the previous update.

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