Coal accounts for approximately 70% of the total energy consumed in China. This percentage share has not changed much since 1978, as shown in the graph below. It reached a peak of 76.2% in 1990, and a low of 66.3% in 2002.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China
The National Bureau of Statistics of China reports energy consumption in metric tons of Standard Coal Equivalent. The graph below shows that total energy consumption in China grew from 571 million tons of SCE in 1978 to 2462 million tons of SCE in 2006. Note that one SCE equals 29.31 Giga Joules (low heat).
Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China
You may also want to see our China section for more facts and statistics.
Our 15-year oil price index chart shows that oil prices in November of 2008 are roughly equal to the oil prices of November 2005. The graph also shows that there was a small spike in prices in 2006, followed by a large spike that began in January 2007 and peaked in July 2008.
Any of the charts in the country comparison section can now be embedded and/or copied. Check the example below.
I’m using Google’s chart API to generate the image file. To copy the image, right-click on it and choose copy.
The energy statistics section now includes regional production and consumption charts. The regions available are:
Production and consumption numbers are available for coal, crude oil, dry natural gas, hydroelectric power, natural gas plant liquids, nuclear power, and alternative fuels. Leave me a comment if you find the new charts useful.
When writing about fluctuations in the price of commodities, you can now use our graphs to illustrate your point. For instance, take a look at the graph below. It shows the IMF Commodity Price Index (for all commodities) for the past fifteen years.
The index has increased by 281.93%!
You can draw you own conclusions, but the important point is that embedding our graphs is now as simple as copying and pasting a bit of HTML code. Clicking on the graph will let you explore other time frames or choose a different price index or commodity.
Commodity prices have been in the news lately. Using data from the International Monetary Fund, you can now graph monthly prices for 55 primary commodities and data series for 9 commodity price indices. Most of the series go back to January of 1980.
I just released a new agricultural production statistics section with international data sourced from the United States Department of Agriculture. Only production graphs are available for now. I’ll add variables such as exports, imports, consumption, etc. as time permits.
You can now embed our energy production and consumption charts in your own blog or web site. The example below shows Saudi Arabia’s yearly crude oil production since 1980. The source of the data is the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA). Note that the EIA releases yearly numbers with a lag of up to three years.
The code I used to display the chart is shown below:
To obtain a different graph, change the following query string parameters:
country: two-character ISO country code. Example: us for the United States, fr for France
product: one of the following products: coal, oil, gas, hydro, ngl, nuclear, other
graph: production or consumption
lang: two-character ISO language code. Currently en is the only recognized value.
The newest feature added to the country rankings section consists of embeddable country ranking charts. Here is an example:
I’m using Google’s fantastic chart api to generate the horizontal bar chart. Note that for now you can only embed charts with up to 10 countries. The charts are available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese.