Primary energy consumption from fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) measured in terawatt-hours (TWh). Data covers global consumption from 1800 to recent years.
Format
A data frame with 228 rows and 5 variables:
- entity
Character, name of the country or region (currently "World")
- code
Character, country/region code (OWID_WRL for World)
- year
Numeric, year of observation (1800-present)
- fuel
Ordered factor with 3 levels: Oil, Gas, Coal. Levels are ordered for logical stacking in plots
- consumption
Numeric, primary energy consumption in terawatt-hours (TWh)
Source
Our World in Data (OWID) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-fossil-fuel-consumption License: CC BY 4.0
Details
Global fossil fuel consumption since the Industrial Revolution, split by
fuel. The fuel factor is ordered Oil, Gas, Coal, which fixes the
stacking order in area charts.
See also
insper_area for creating area plots with this data