Streamgraph · world energy

How humanity powered a century

The river widens twentyfold. Coal hands the lead to oil after mid-century, gas swells beside it, and the thin bright edge - wind and solar - only appears in the last two bends.

How humanity powered a century Streamgraph of global primary energy by source from 1900 to 2023; total width grows enormously and oil, in accent, dominates after 1960. 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 2023 Biomass Coal Oil Gas Hydro & nuclear Wind & solar GLOBAL PRIMARY ENERGY, TWh, SUBSTITUTION METHOD · OUR WORLD IN DATA / ENERGY INSTITUTE · DECADE STEPS 1900-2020 PLUS 2023