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Low-carbon energy is defined as the sum of nuclear and renewable sources. Renewable sources include hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, wave and tidal and
bioenergy. Traditional biofuels are not included.
1965
2019
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- Absolute annual change in primary energy consumption
- Access to electricity vs. GDP per capita
- Annual change in coal energy consumption
- Annual change in fossil fuel consumption
- Annual change in gas consumption
- Annual change in hydropower generation
- Annual change in low-carbon energy generation
- Annual change in nuclear energy generation
- Annual change in oil consumption
- Annual change in primary energy consumption
- Annual change in renewable energy generation
- Annual change in solar energy generation
- Annual change in wind energy generation
- Annual percentage change in coal energy consumption
- Annual percentage change in fossil fuel consumption
- Annual percentage change in gas consumption
- Annual percentage change in hydropower generation
- Annual percentage change in low-carbon energy generation
- Annual percentage change in nuclear energy generation
- Annual percentage change in oil consumption
- Annual percentage change in renewable energy generation
- Annual percentage change in solar energy generation
- Annual percentage change in wind energy generation
- Coal production per capita
- Consumption-based (trade-adjusted) energy use per person
- Consumption-based energy intensity per dollar
- Death rates from energy production per TWh
- Death rates from low-carbon energy production
- Direct primary energy consumption from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables
- Electricity Generation
- Electricity access
- Electricity consumption from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables
- Electricity generation from coal
- Electricity generation from fossil fuels
- Electricity generation from gas
- Electricity generation from low-carbon sources
- Electricity generation from oil
- Electricity production by source
- Electricity production by source
- Electricity production from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables
- Employment by economic sector
- Energy consumption by source
- Energy embedded in traded goods as a share of domestic energy
- Energy imports and exports
- Energy intensity
- Energy intensity by sector
- Energy intensity of economies
- Energy intensity vs. GDP per capita
- Energy use per capita vs. share of population in extreme poverty
- Energy use per person
- Final to primary energy ratio (%)
- Fossil fuel consumption
- Fossil fuel consumption per capita
- Fossil fuel consumption per capita
- Fossil fuel consumption per capita
- GDP per capita vs. Energy use
- Gas consumption
- Global direct primary energy consumption
- Global primary energy consumption by source
- Global primary energy consumption by source
- Has country already reached SDG target on clean cooking fuels?
- Hypothetical number of deaths from energy production
- Installed global renewable energy capacity by technology
- Installed renewable energy capacity
- Investment in renewable energy, by technology
- Levelized cost of energy by technology
- Long-term energy transitions
- Low-carbon electricity generation per capita
- Low-carbon energy consumption
- Modern renewable energy generation by source
- Net energy embedded in traded goods
- Number of people with access to electricity
- Number of people with and without electricity access
- Number of people without access to electricity
- Number of people without access to electricity
- Number of people without clean fuels for cooking
- Oil production per capita
- Per capita consumption of low-carbon energy
- Per capita consumption of low-carbon energy vs. GDP per capita
- Per capita electricity consumption
- Per capita electricity from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables
- Per capita electricity generation from fossil fuels
- Per capita electricity generation from gas
- Per capita electricity generation from hydropower
- Per capita electricity generation from nuclear
- Per capita electricity generation from oil
- Per capita electricity generation from renewables
- Per capita electricity generation from solar
- Per capita electricity generation from wind
- Per capita energy consumption from coal
- Per capita energy consumption from hydropower
- Per capita energy consumption from nuclear
- Per capita energy consumption from renewables
- Per capita energy consumption from solar
- Per capita energy consumption from wind
- Per capita energy from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables
- Per capita fossil energy consumption vs. GDP per capita
- Per capita gas consumption
- Per capita generation of coal electricity
- Per capita oil consumption
- Per capita primary energy consumption by source
- Power outages in firms in a typical month
- Primary direct energy consumption by source
- Primary energy consumption
- Primary energy consumption by source
- Primary energy consumption by source
- Primary energy consumption by source
- Primary energy consumption by world region
- Primary energy consumption from fossil fuels, nuclear and renewables
- Primary energy consumption from hydropower
- Primary energy consumption from nuclear
- Primary energy consumption from renewables
- Primary energy consumption from solar
- Primary energy consumption from wind
- Primary energy mix in the United Kingdom
- Production vs. consumption-based carbon intensity of energy
- Production- vs. consumption-based energy use per person
- Production-based vs. consumption-based energy use
- Renewable Energy Investment
- Renewable Energy Investment
- Share of direct primary energy consumption by source
- Share of electricity from low-carbon sources
- Share of electricity production by source
- Share of electricity production by source
- Share of electricity production from coal
- Share of electricity production from fossil fuels
- Share of electricity production from gas
- Share of electricity production from hydropower
- Share of electricity production from nuclear
- Share of electricity production from renewable sources
- Share of electricity production from renewables
- Share of electricity production from solar
- Share of electricity production from wind
- Share of energy consumption by source
- Share of final energy consumption from renewable sources
- Share of global primary energy consumption by source
- Share of primary energy from coal
- Share of primary energy from fossil fuels
- Share of primary energy from gas
- Share of primary energy from hydroelectric power
- Share of primary energy from nuclear
- Share of primary energy from oil
- Share of primary energy from renewable sources
- Share of primary energy from solar
- Share of primary energy from wind
- Share of primary energy that is low-carbon vs. GDP per capita
- Share of rural vs. urban population with electricity access
- Solar PV Cumulative Capacity
- Solar PV module prices vs. cumulative capacity
- The long-term energy transition in Europe
- The share of nuclear and renewables in total electricity production
- When will countries phase out coal power?
- Which countries get more of their energy from low-carbon sources than the global average?
- Year-to-year change in primary energy consumption by source
- Year-to-year change in primary energy consumption from fossil fuels vs. low-carbon energy
- Year-to-year percentage change in primary energy consumption