Highest Fossil Fuel consumption per Capita (1965 - 2023)
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Fossil fuel consumption per capita is measured as the average consumption of energy from coal, oil and gas, in kilowatt-hours per person.
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The Luxembourg figure is a distortion of the true position. What happens is that Luxembourg, which has the highest per-capita GDP in the world, charges a rather lower rate of duty on fuel than do its neighbours. They are also a major hub on the European road transport network, and consequently vast numbers of truckers, drivers, nearby citizens of other countries all use one of the vast fuel stations specially built for the purpose. So the great majority of that fuel is not consumed in Luxembourg.
This is game that the country also plays with some other highly taxed commodities.
The result is that this tiny country gets to collect large sums of excise duty per head of population, which is great for the tax base...
Agree! But per capita does give us better insight. Love this style of video. It shows us a lot. Netherlands has discovered these enormous gas fields in the 50ties. We used this for growing tulips, cucombers etc. We don't have much nuclear. Today we are great on wind and solar, despite our shitty climate. Hope to see us drop to place 255 soon!
@@maickelwand9100 The Netherlands is one of the highest emitters of CO2 per head of population in the EU. In 2021, only Luxembourg and Czechia produced more CO2 per head. The Netherlands, Poland , Belgium and Germany all produce similar amounts (7.5-7.3 tonnes per head).
In the Netherlands, maybe it's all those heated glasshouses that are a big issue.
Denmark is at about 4.7 and France 4.0. Sweden comes in at 2.5 tonnes per head.
In short, a long way to go.
@@TheEulerID yes you are right. Although we have very efficient greenhouses they are still being heated. And we have more pigs than humans. Ouf, long way to go there!
@@maickelwand9100 true, there are more pigs in the nederlands than normal people
Luxembourg GDP thanks to the same distortion mechanism. There are around 600.000 habitants, while every day 200.000 people cross its borders to work produce growth and pay taxes. In other words official statistics take wealth generated by 800.000 people and divide by 600.000 habitants. The result is clearly distorted a lot.
Very interesting data graphic. There's just one thing that would have made it more informative, at least for me. If you had kept the 100,000 kwh line fixed in one location we'd have been able to get a better sense of whether the overall consumption was rising or falling, as well as the relative contributions of the various countries.
I see the US has massively reduced its per fossil fuel per capita consumption by about a third since the 70’s. I expect much of this is due to the offshoring of its industry, instead simply importing millions of tons of consumer goods. I don’t see any reason for politicians or environmentalists to take a victory lap for exporting production to countries with far looser pollution standards.
These numbers are actually lower than the real per capita consumption, because they don't include the fuel consumption for the production of goods. Calculating these numbers would be difficult, however, since most of the time the resources are used up in other countries, and there are no numbers telling you exactly which goods are sold in a country and how many resources they require.
Yup. Good point. We outsourced a lot of manufacturing to China and as a result a lot of our CO2 is used in China and then parts or completed products get shipped to Europe and US.
Where did you find data for Czechia and Slovakia in 1968? Those countries didn't even exist yet.
How Germany is accounted up to 1991. Are DDR and BRD spliced or is it only BRD?
Why is Trinidad and Tobago so high? This is just one Caribbean country out of many, yet no other Caribbean country appears on this list.
On a guess only, they have a large oil and gas industry and may as a matter of policy keep prices artificially low (subsidized) as does Venezuela and some other oil producers.
Wasnt Czech republik and Slovakia back then but Czechoslovakia.
I wasnt surprised to see ireland hit the list in the late 90s, i was a little surprised to see it drop off the list after that ..
I doubt that its possible to draw a line between Czechia and Slowakia back in 1965, the entitys from USSR getting independant in 1991 back in the 80s are also to doubt.
Great data. Some context / explanations would be really helpful (rise of Singapore, Estonia, etc). Also pegging to an absolute number rather than the #1 would better allow us to see if usage is going up or down.
Excellent - and while Fossil Carbon/pop is interesting if you look at the Kaya Identity the ratio that is perhaps more relevant is GDP/Unit Carbon. This is essentially a measure of how efficient an economy is at producing wealth in terms of it's fossil carbon consumption.
You can see Russian economy is growing fast in last years, as it even jumped over Luxembourg in 2022. High use in Luxembourg and Belgium is probably due to large steel production (closed earlier in Belgium) + Belgium, like Holland have chemical plant clusters that are amongst the biggest in the world.
Can anyone explain Luxembourg and Trinidad as high per capita consumers? It’s colder in Canada for example? Burning more fuel for what?
Are the figures for Quatar and Singapore including their airlines, if so does this skew the figures massively?
It would be interesting to see the least fossil fuel consuming countries too.
Luxembourg has a very high number of workers driving in each day from France,Belgium and Germany. The fill up in Luxembourg so the figures are totally distorted.😊😊
Isn't(/wasn't) there a giant steelwork there?
Kilowatt hours per person per what?
Do you mean per hour, in which case you could've just used kW? Or per day? Per year?
That was my question also. I haven't found an answer yet. I think it is most likely per person per day. If you drive a petrol car that consumes a modest 9 lts per 100 kms and your average day is 33 kms then that's 3 lts and each of those contains 9.5 kWhrs. So petrol alone accounts for 28.5 kWhr per day. Throw in some gas hot water and dirty electricity, and it's looking like per day.
Qatar : that's what we drink
Misleading dataset. Luxembourg has a steel industry and low population. It has significant renewable energy resources.
not at all misleading, just raw data
a rare chart where China is outside the top 50 😂
China?
Lots of people…..
Probably no data available.
Per capita they're not much worse than the UK.
@akyhne of course the data is available
As usual, we see a picture of cooling towers releasing steam into the atmosphere as example of fossil fuel related issues 🤔
Does a large natural gas fired turbine or massive coal burning plant not need cooling towers just the same?
@@docwatson1134 Not necessarily. Such fossil fuel power plants often use water cooling (from a river or sea) and do not have cooling towers.
New Zealand did well then, not on the list.
They will be soon, the rate at which their consumption is increasing. South Island hydro is a gift from nature and previous generations, but current generation are using far more fossil fuel in transport (all those unnecessary utes…) while doing little to increase renewable electricity generation to keep up with population growth. And now they’re talking about reintroducing coal FFS
I didn't see China in there
Because per capita they still rank below the level of many classic industrialized countries. Per toto they are No 1.
Western propaganda keep talking bad about China.
Where are they on the list of per capita consumption?
Outside of the list presumably. This is a per capita list. That is the same reason Qatar is at the top. Low population but high emissions
China has high emissions, but an arsetonne of people. Same with India
Useless comparison without explanation of the contexts and all parameters taken into account. Example Luxembourg. A large part of the fossil fuel in the form 2:29 of fuel for cars and other vehicles which is sold in Luxembourg goes into vehicles from other countries. Many people from arou d go to Luxembourg to fill up because fuelnis cheaper there. Literally thousands of lorries each day fill up in Luxembourg while passing through and yet, in this blind statistics it is counted as per capita consumption in Luxembourg.
If the data for other countries is just as skewed, then this whole statistics is completely worthless.
Well I think if you are taking the tax revenue then you should shoulder the responsibility. It's a political choice they decided to make for revenue purposes. Nobody forced them to take this policy. Would they choose this as a new policy in 2024 with the scrutiny over fossil fuel use, probably not.
@@gavjlewis The responsibility lies exclusively with those who consume the fuel. If it wasn't cheaper in Luxembourg, they wouldn't consume less, just buy it somewhere else.
This isn't correct at all. Your showing mainly the refinery production that has on sold products other countries.