Some of the most popular charts on Our World in Data are about energy production and consumption: how much energy countries produce, how they compare per person, and what sources this energy mix comes from.
But when people talk about “energy”, they’re not always talking about the same thing. There are different ways of measuring energy, from the very top of the chain – for example, coal going into a power plant – to the final link in the chain – the light that eventually comes out of a lightbulb…
Source: Our World in Data – A project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
- A never-ending childhood of malaria
- Beef production in Brazil has been the largest driver of global deforestation in recent decades
- The rise of electoral democracy
- Which countries have already passed peak population, and when will the rest do so?
- 138 million children are in child labor. What does this actually mean?
Climate Change
- Air conditioning is almost universal in the US and Japan — but not elsewhere
- Hannah Ritchie’s book, Clearing the Air, is coming out in paperback in September
- How do we track a changing climate?
