The Human Impacts Database

A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.


Global annual energy consumption from natural gas

EnergyFossil Fuels

This quantity comes from a time series measurement and the most recent value (2021) is reported.

Value:

This is equivalent to...

≈ 4.6 × 1012 W

HuID: 49947
Relevant Year(s): 2021
Summary: Value excludes natural gas converted to liquid fuels but includes derivatives of coal as well as natural gas consumed in Gas-to-Liquids transformation.
Method: BP collects data from individual countries and does not provide an assessment of uncertainty.
Source: British Petroleum bp Statistical Review of World Energy dataset. (2022)
Dataset: Global energy usage by type (bp_consumption_by_type.csv)
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Added By: nsarai