World Resources Institute Home | Graphics
EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal

Topics
Coastal and Marine EcosystemsWater Resources and Freshwater EcosystemsClimate and AtmospherePopulation, Health and Well-beingEconomics, Business and the EnvironmentEnergy and ResourcesBiodiversity and Protected AreasAgriculture and FoodForests, Grasslands and DrylandsEnvironmental Governance and Institutions
Tools
HelpVariablesCountry ProfilesFeaturesData TablesMaps

Energy and Resources

COUNTRY PROFILE - Australia

View Technical and Source Notes
     
Energy Production and Consumption Australia Oceania World
(in thousand metric tons of oil equivalent) {a}
Total Energy Production, 2000 232552 247931 10077984
  % change since 1980 170 % 171 % 37 %
Energy Imports, 1997 24483 30122 9521506
Energy Exports, 1997 119382 122289 3419104
Total Energy Consumption {b}, 1999 107930 X 9702786
Electricity consumption, 1999 14492 X 1040770
Energy consumption per capita, 1997 6 4 2
  % change since 1990 7 % 5 % 0 %
Energy Consumption per GDP {c}, 1999: 231 235 244
  % change since 1990 -12 % -10 % -13 %
         
Energy Consumption by Source, 1999 (in thousand metric tons oil equivalent)
Total Fossil Fuels 101140 X 7689047
  Coal and coal products 47364 X 2278524
  Crude oil and natural gas liquids 36291 X 3563084
  Natural Gas 18207 X 2012559
Nuclear 0 X 661901
Hydroelectric 1434 X 222223
Renewables, excluding hydroelectric: 5177 X 1097889
  Primary solid biomass (includes fuelwood) 4943 X 1035139
  Biogas and liquid biomass 138 X 14931
  Geothermal 0 X 43802
  Solar 95 X 2217
  Wind 1 X 1748
  Tide, wave, and ocean 0 X 53
         
Energy Consumption by Sector, 1999
(in thousand metric tons of oil equivalent)
Industry 24158 X 2140474
Transportation 27362 X 1755505
Agriculture 1601 X 166287
Commercial & public services 4895 X 511555
Residential 8828 X 1845475
Non-energy Uses 3030 X 333981
Total Final Energy Consumption {d} 69874 X 6753276
         
Resource Consumption
Passenger Cars per 1000 people, 1998 X X 109
Annual Motor Gasoline Consumption, 2000
  (liters per person) 940 X 179
Annual Meat Consumption, 1998
  (kg per person) 110 93 38
Annual Paper Consumption, 2000
  (kg per person) 198 X 53
Annual Coffee Consumption, 2001
  (kg per person) X X X
         
         
Footnotes:
a. One metric ton of oil equivalent (toe) is defined as 10 Exp. 7 kilocalories or 41.868 gigajoules, equal to the amount of energy contained in 1 metric ton of crude oil.
b. In metric tons of oil equivalent per million constant 1995 international dollars.
TPES = Energy Production + Imports - Exports - Stock Changes - Consumption by International Marine Bunkers
c. In metric tons of oil equivalent per million constant 1995 international dollars.
d. In this profile, "total final consumption" is calculated as the sum of energy consumption by sectors. Values may differ slightly from those reported by the International
Energy Agency (IEA).
         
         
View more Country Profiles on-line at http://earthtrends.wri.org
















THE WORLD BANK UNEP THE NETHERLANDS MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SIDA UNDP USAID
© 2006 World Resources Institute Contact Us Content licensed under a Creative Commons License.