Energy & Prosperity
More human progress per joule — energy use per person vs. GDP per capita, 2024
Correlation (log–log)
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energy vs. GDP per capita
Elasticity
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% GDP per +1% energy
Countries
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with full 2024 coverage
Year
2024
latest broad coverage
Energy Consumption & Prosperity Move Together
2024
Each dot is a country: horizontal = primary energy consumption per person (kWh/year, substitution method);
vertical = GDP per capita (PPP, constant international $). Both axes are logarithmic, so a straight
relationship implies a constant percentage trade-off. The dashed line is the fitted log–log trend, and the
large translucent circles mark each region's unweighted country average.
Prosperity scales with energy access. The countries that use more energy per person are, almost without exception, the ones that produce more value per person — the case for abundant, monetizable energy that underpins Bitcoin mining as a flexible, stranded-energy buyer.
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Source & method: Our World in Data —
Energy use per person vs. GDP per capita.
Energy: primary energy consumption per capita (kWh/person/year, substitution method), from the
Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy and the U.S. EIA, via OWID.
GDP: GDP per capita, PPP, constant international dollars, from the
World Bank.
Year shown: 2024 (latest year with broad country coverage). Regional aggregates and country groupings excluded;
only sovereign/territorial units with both metrics reported are plotted. Trend and correlation computed on log₁₀ values.
Region colors follow OWID's continents, refined with UN M49 subregions to break Central America & the Caribbean
out of North America (which here keeps the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Bermuda).