The pie charts demonstrate the percentage of some types of energy sources used for consumption in general and electricity production worldwide in the previous year.
Overall, it can be seen that fossil fuels dominated both consumption and electricity generation globally last year. Additionally, combustible renewables and waste were not used to produce electricity this year.
In terms of global energy consumption, a vast majority were from fossil fuels including gas, coal, and oil. In which, oil accounted for the largest proportion, at 34.3%, followed by coal and gas, at 25.1% and 20.9% respectively. In addition, renewables and waste accounted for about one-tenth, after which nuclear was 6.5%. Only a very small fraction of electricity was produced from hydro and other power.
Regarding electricity production, coal was the primary source with approximately 40%, which doubled the percentage of gas. The uses of hydro and nuclear in generating electricity were more common than in consumption, at around 16% for each. However, the rate of oil in electricity production was relatively small, less than 7%. “Other” energy only accounted for merely 2%. Notably, there was no contribution of combustible renewables and waste in this industry.