The bar chart compares the sources of electricity in four countries: India, Sweden, Morocco, and Vietnam, from 2003 to 2008. Overall, India and Vietnam emerged as the major consumers of fossil fuels, while Morocco and Sweden followed a different pattern. It is also worth noting that nuclear power was completely absent from both Morocco and Vietnam, whereas it represented a considerable share of the energy supply in India and Sweden.
Focusing first on the largest expenditures, India’s electricity production was overwhelmingly dependent on fossil fuels, which accounted for just over four-fifths of the total, at 81.9%. In stark contrast, Sweden exhibited the smallest share of fossil fuel use, standing at a mere 4%. The two countries reversed their positions in the category of hydropower, with Sweden outperforming India (52% compared to 14.6%). While nuclear power was barely utilized in India, at just 3.5%, it played a much more significant role in Sweden, where it constituted nearly half of the total energy supply.
In Morocco and Vietnam, only two sources of electricity production were present, and nuclear power was entirely absent from both. In Morocco, over 90% of electricity was derived from hydropower, while fossil fuels made up only a minor share, at 5%. Conversely, Vietnam demonstrated the opposite pattern, generating the vast majority of its electricity from fossil fuels, at 56%, while hydropower contributed a considerably smaller portion of 44%.