North America - Electric power consumption

Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)

The value for Electric power consumption (kWh per capita) in North America was 13,254 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14,024 in 2005 and a minimum value of 4,192 in 1960.

Definition: Electric power consumption measures the production of power plants and combined heat and power plants less transmission, distribution, and transformation losses and own use by heat and power plants.

Source: IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2014 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/

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Year Value
1960 4,192
1961 4,311
1962 4,557
1963 4,807
1964 5,108
1965 5,389
1966 5,754
1967 6,051
1968 6,540
1969 7,058
1970 7,399
1971 7,675
1972 8,242
1973 8,733
1974 8,677
1975 8,711
1976 9,173
1977 9,577
1978 9,824
1979 9,965
1980 10,149
1981 10,295
1982 9,881
1983 10,106
1984 10,680
1985 10,850
1986 10,909
1987 11,370
1988 11,801
1989 12,023
1990 12,158
1991 12,538
1992 12,428
1993 12,665
1994 12,846
1995 13,044
1996 13,226
1997 13,262
1998 13,478
1999 13,616
2000 14,001
2001 13,419
2002 13,656
2003 13,691
2004 13,770
2005 14,024
2006 13,871
2007 13,955
2008 13,931
2009 13,164
2010 13,581
2011 13,484
2012 13,200
2013 13,278
2014 13,254

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use