page_title: Worldwide energy supply
hierarchical_section_title: Worldwide energy supply
caption_attribution_description: English: Different of energy forms in the energy metabolism of society. Primary energy sources highlighted. Adapted from: M. Giampietro and K. Mayumi, "The The Biofuel Delusion: The Fallacy of Large Scale Agro-Biofuels Production", Earthscan, 2009.
context_page_description: Worldwide energy supply is the global production and preparation of fuel, generation of electricity, and energy transport. Energy supply is a vast industry.
  Many countries publish statistics on the energy supply of their own country or other countries or the world. World Energy Balances is published by one of the largest organizations in this field, the International Energy Agency IEA.
  This collection of energy balances is very large.
  Energy production is 80% fossil. Half of that is produced by China, the United States and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The Gulf States and Norway export most of their production, largely to the European Union and Japan where not enough energy is produced to satisfy demand. Energy production increases slowly, except for solar and wind energy which grows more than 20% per year.
  Produced energy, for instance crude oil, is processed to make it suitable for consumption by end users. The supply chain between production and final consumption involves many conversion activities and much trade and transport among countries, causing a loss of one third of energy before it is consumed.
context_section_description: Worldwide energy supply is the global production and preparation of fuel, generation of electricity, and energy transport. Energy supply is a vast industry.
  Many countries publish statistics on the energy supply of their own country or other countries or the world. World Energy Balances is published by one of the largest organizations in this field, the International Energy Agency IEA.
  This collection of energy balances is very large. This article provides a brief description of energy supply, using statistics summarized in tables, of the countries and regions that produce and consume most.
  Energy production is 80% fossil. Half of that is produced by China, the United States and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The Gulf States and Norway export most of their production, largely to the European Union and Japan where not enough energy is produced to satisfy demand. Energy production increases slowly, except for solar and wind energy which grows more than 20% per year.
  Produced energy, for instance crude oil, is processed to make it suitable for consumption by end users. The supply chain between production and final consumption involves many conversion activities and much trade and transport among countries, causing a loss of one third of energy before it is consumed.
  Energy consumption per person in North America is very high while in developing countries it is low and more renewable.
  Worldwide carbon dioxide emission from fossil fuel was 37 gigaton in 2017. In view of contemporary energy policy of countries the IEA expects that the worldwide energy consumption in 2040 will have increased more than a quarter and that the goal, set in the Paris Agreement about Climate Change, will not nearly be reached. Several scenarios to achieve the goal are developed.
caption: Primary energy sources are transformed by the energy sector to generate energy carriers.
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