this implies that although more energy is being consumed directly and indirectly per person in the region this is being used as that populations income gdp increases faster than their energy footprint figure shows that lesser reductions have occurred across the asiapacific industrialized countries and the rest of the world evidently asiapacific developing countries reduced their territorial energy intensity by while the intensity of their energy footprint declined by between and the residents and governments of the developing nations either consume less or consume less energyintensive goods and services than they produce