South Africa - Electric power consumption

Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)

The value for Electric power consumption (kWh per capita) in South Africa was 4,198 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,852 in 2007 and a minimum value of 2,240 in 1971.

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/

See also:

Year Value
1971 2,240
1972 2,389
1973 2,504
1974 2,630
1975 2,749
1976 2,885
1977 2,959
1978 3,108
1979 3,329
1980 3,519
1981 3,679
1982 3,750
1983 3,790
1984 4,035
1985 4,118
1986 4,206
1987 4,175
1988 4,255
1989 4,271
1990 4,239
1991 4,128
1992 3,997
1993 4,023
1994 4,068
1995 4,158
1996 4,706
1997 4,818
1998 4,607
1999 4,471
2000 4,580
2001 4,302
2002 4,529
2003 4,560
2004 4,590
2005 4,637
2006 4,722
2007 4,852
2008 4,665
2009 4,428
2010 4,543
2011 4,566
2012 4,366
2013 4,286
2014 4,198

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use