The Human Impacts Database

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


Global annual power derived from natural gas

EnergyFossil Fuels

This quantity comes from a time series measurement and the most recent value (2019) is reported.

Value:

This is equivalent to...

4.9 × 1012 W

HuID: 86175
Relevant Year(s): 2019
Summary: Value comes from the U.S. Energy Information Agency and is accumulated from values reported by each country. EIA no longer updates vented and flared natural gas production or reinjected natural gas production. Only dry natural gas production is published annually.
Method: The EIA collects data from individual countries and does not provide an assessment of uncertainty.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Natural gas. (2020)
Dataset: Energy consumption from natural gas (EIA_NatGasConsumption_2022_totals.csv)
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Original Data License: CC0
Added By: rbanks