Electric energy consumption is the form of energy consumption that uses electric energy.

Overview [edit]

Consumption of electric energy is measured by W·h (Watt x Hour):^).

1 W·h = 3600 joule = 859.8 calorie

energy in one year. Electric/Electronics devices consume electric energy to generate desired output(i.e. light, heat, kinetic etc.), while its operation some part of energy are consumed in unintended output. see Electrical efficiency

In 2008, world total of electricity production and consumption was 20,279TWh. This number corresponds to a "consumed" power of around 2.3 TW on average. The total energy needed for producing this power is roughly a factor 2 to 3 higher because the efficiency of power plants is roughly 30-50%, see Electricity generation. The generated power is thus in the order of 5 TW. This is approximately a third of the total energy consumption of 15 TW, see World energy consumption.

16816TWh(83%) of electric energy was consumed by final users. The difference of 3464TWh(17%)was consumed in the process of generating power and consumed as transmission loss.

World Electricity Consumption Highlights in 2009 [edit]

Electricity Consumption in 2009 Enerdata Statistical Energy Review.

At the world level, energy consumption was cut down by 1.5% during 2009, for the first time since World War II.^[1] Except in Asia and Middle East, consumptions were reduced in all the world regions. In OECD countries, accounting for 53% of the total, electricity demand scaled down by more than 4.5% in both Europe and North America while it shrank by above 7% in Japan. Electricity demand also dropped by more than 4.5% in CIS countries, driven by a large cut in Russian consumption. Conversely, in China and India (22% of the world's consumption), electricity consumption continued to rise at a strong pace (+6-7%) to meet energy needs related to high economic growth. In Middle East, growth rate was softened but remained high, just below 4%.

Electricity Consumption and GDP [edit]

Listed countries are top 20 populous countries and/or top 20 GDP (PPP) countries and Saudi Arabia as of CIA World Factbook 2009.
30 countries (exclude EU/IEA) in this table represent 77% of world population, 84% of world GDP, 83% of world electricity consumption.
Productivity per Electricity consumption (concept similar to Energy intensity) can be measured by dividing GDP amount by the electricity consumed. World average was $3.5 production/kWh.
Electricity consumption include Final consumption, in process consumption, and losses.

Electricity Consumption (2008) and GDP (PPP) (2009)

Country	Population million	rank*	GDP (PPP) billion USD	rank*	GDP (PPP) per capita	rank*	Electricity consumption (GWh/yr)	rank**	daily kWh per capita	rank**	GDP (PPP) /kWh*
World	6,784	—	$70,048	—	$10,325	—	20,279,640	—	8.18	—	$3.5
China	1,339	01	$7,992	02	$5,969	133	3,444,108	02	7.04	17	$2.3
India	1,166	02	$3,304	04	$2,834	166	860,723	05	2.02	23	$3.8
USA	307	03	$14,440	01	$47,036	11	4,401,698	01	39.25	02	$3.3
EU*	541	—	$16,221	—	$29,983	—	3,635,604	—	18.40	—	$4.5
Indonesia	240	04	$917	15	$3,821	158	149,437	20	1.70	24	$6.1
Brazil	199	05	$1,998	09	$10,040	102	505,083	09	6.95	18	$4.0
Pakistan	176	06	$431	27	$2,449	172	91,626	24	1.43	26	$4.7
Bangladesh	156	07	$226	49	$1,449	196	35,893	27	0.63	27	$6.3
Nigeria	149	08	$336	35	$2,255	176	21,110	28	0.39	28	$15.9
Russia	140	09	$2,271	06	$16,221	72	1,022,726	04	20.00	10	$2.2
Japan	127	10	$4,340	03	$34,173	36	1,083,142	03	23.35	06	$4.0
Mexico	111	11	$1,567	11	$14,117	77	257,812	14	6.36	19	$6.1
Philippines	98	12	$318	37	$3,425	162	60,819	26	1.70	25	$5.2
Vietnam	87	13	$242	45	$2,782	167	76,269	25	2.40	22	$3.2
Ethiopia	85	14	$70	78	$824	216	3,777	30	0.12	30	$18.5
Egypt	83	15	$445	26	$5,361	135	130,144	22	4.29	21	$3.4
Germany	82	16	$2,925	05	$35,671	33	617,132	07	20.61	08	$4.7
Turkey	77	17	$904	16	$11,740	92	198,085	19	7.04	16	$4.6
DR Congo	69	18	$21	120	$304	226	6,939	29	0.28	29	$3.0
Iran	66	19	$844	17	$12,788	86	211,972	17	8.79	15	$4.0
Thailand	66	20	$549	24	$8,318	115	149,034	21	6.18	20	$3.7
France	64	21	$2,133	08	$33,328	38	526,862	08	22.54	07	$4.0
UK	61	22	$2,236	07	$36,656	30	400,390	11	17.97	13	$5.6
Italy	58	23	$1,827	10	$31,500	41	359,161	12	16.95	14	$5.1
Korea	49	25	$1,338	13	$27,306	49	443,888	10	24.80	05	$3.0
Spain	41	32	$1,402	12	$34,195	35	303,179	13	20.25	09	$4.6
Canada	33	37	$1,303	14	$39,485	22	620,684	06	51.50	01	$2.1
Saudi Arabia	29	41	$578	22	$19,931	59	204,200	18	19.28	12	$2.8
Taiwan	23	49	$714	19	$31,043	42	238,458	16	28.39	04	$3.0
Australia	21	54	$803	18	$38,238	25	257,247	15	33.54	03	$3.1
Netherlands	17	59	$674	20	$39,647	20	123,496	23	19.89	11	$5.5

Population and GDP data are from CIA World Factbook 2009
Electricity data are from IEA/OECD 2008 ^[2](retrieved on Apr-2011)
rank* of Population and GDP are World ranking
rank** of Electricity consumption are ranking within this list
GDP PP/kWh Amount of GDP (PPP) (USD) produced per every 1kWh.
EU* are EU states which are member of IEA.
include; Austria, Belgium, Czech, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK

Electricity Final Consumption by categories [edit]

There are in-process consumption of Electricity which is about 17% of total production. In 2008, total electricity produced was 20,261TWh, 3,464TWh was consumed during process and 16,816TWh went to final consumption. Data are from IEA/OECD (2008)^[2]

In the consumption rate in Industry, China is highest with 67.8%, South Korea is 51.0%(7th), Germany 46.1%(11th), Japan 31.5%(26th), USA 24.0%(28th)
In the Commercial and Public Service, Japan is highest with 36.4%, USA 35.6%(3rd), China 5.4%(29th)
For Domestic usage, Saudi Arabia is highest with 56.9%, USA 36.2%(8th), Japan 29.8%(16th), China 15.5%(29th), Korea 13.8%(30th)

definition
Industry; Iron and steel, chemical and petrochemical, non-ferrous metals, non-metallic minerals, transport equipment, machinery, mining, Food and tobacco, Paper, pulp and print, wood and wood product, construction, textile and leather, non-specified.
Transport; Domestic aviation, Land transportation, Rail, Pipeline transport, domestic navigation, non-specified. note international marine and aviation bunkers are not included.
Fishery; some country include fishing with agriculture/forestry.

• Listed countries are top 20 by population or top 20 by GDP (PPP) and Saudi Arabia.

Electricity Consumption 2008 (TWh)

Country	total (TWh)	Industry	Transport	Commercial /Public Services	Agriculture /Forestry	Fishery	Residential	other
World	16,816	41.7%	1.60%	23.4%	2.50%	0.025%	27.4%	3.43%
China	2,842	67.8%	1.05%	5.4%	3.12%	0.000%	15.5%	7.19%
India	602	46.4%	1.93%	8.0%	17.92%	0.000%	20.7%	5.05%
USA	3,814	24.0%	0.20%	35.0%	0.00%	0.000%	36.2%	4.59%
Indonesia	129	37.2%	0.00%	23.9%	0.00%	0.000%	38.9%	0.00%
Brazil	410	48.1%	0.39%	23.7%	4.49%	0.000%	23.3%	0.00%
Pakistan	70	27.5%	0.01%	14.2%	12.50%	0.000%	45.9%	0.00%
Bangladesh	32	56.3%	0.00%	6.0%	3.37%	0.000%	32.9%	0.00%
Nigeria	19	20.0%	0.00%	24.7%	0.00%	0.000%	55.3%	0.00%
Russia	725	49.6%	11.45%	20.6%	2.14%	0.037%	16.1%	0.00%
Japan	964	31.5%	1.95%	36.4%	0.09%	0.000%	29.8%	0.23%
Mexico	200	61.3%	0.55%	10.3%	4.05%	0.000%	23.7%	0.00%
Philippines	49	34.6%	0.23%	28.7%	2.30%	0.311%	33.8%	0.00%
Vietnam	68	51.8%	0.75%	8.1%	0.97%	0.000%	38.4%	0.00%
Ethiopia	3.1	38.0%	0.00%	23.6%	0.00%	0.000%	37.7%	0.74%
Egypt	112	33.4%	0.00%	15.4%	4.13%	0.000%	39.2%	7.84%
Germany	526	46.1%	3.14%	22.6%	1.66%	0.000%	26.5%	0.00%
Turkey	159	45.4%	0.60%	25.6%	3.54%	0.102%	24.8%	0.00%
DR Congo	6.1	63.4%	0.00%	3.1%	0.00%	0.000%	33.5%	0.00%
Iran	164	33.2%	0.15%	19.0%	12.92%	0.001%	32.3%	2.50%
Thailand	135	42.4%	0.04%	35.6%	0.21%	0.000%	21.3%	0.54%
France	433	32.6%	3.06%	25.0%	0.88%	0.028%	35.9%	2.57%
UK	342	33.2%	2.47%	28.6%	1.19%	0.000%	34.5%	0.00%
Italy	309	45.8%	3.50%	26.8%	1.81%	0.022%	22.1%	0.00%
South Korea	407	51.0%	0.55%	32.5%	1.61%	0.449%	13.8%	0.00%
Spain	265	38.9%	1.10%	29.5%	2.29%	0.000%	27.1%	1.08%
Canada	519	36.3%	0.81%	30.0%	1.86%	0.000%	31.0%	0.00%
Saudi Arabia	170	12.4%	0.00%	28.5%	2.04%	0.000%	56.9%	0.14%
Taiwan	210	55.7%	0.52%	13.7%	0.78%	0.459%	20.3%	8.48%
Australia	212	44.7%	1.33%	25.6%	0.88%	0.000%	27.4%	0.00%
Netherlands	109	38.6%	1.48%	30.0%	7.15%	0.000%	22.7%	0.00%

Electric energy consumption of OECD member countries [edit]

Electric energy consumption per inhabitant by primary energy source in some countries and areas in 2008 is in the table.

1 MW·h/yr = 114 Watt

For the OECD with 8 991 kWh/yr/person: 1.026 Watt/person.

See also [edit]

• World energy consumption
• Electricity generation
• List of countries by electric energy consumption
• List of countries by electricity production
• List of countries by energy consumption and production
• List of countries by energy consumption per capita
• List of countries by total primary energy consumption and production
• List of countries by energy intensity
• List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions
• List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions
• List of countries by renewable electricity production

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• World Map and Chart of Energy Consumption by country by Lebanese-economy-forum, World Bank data