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Basis of GDP numbers?[edit]

On what GDP numbers is this image based? It doesn't match what I've seen, for example, List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita and List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita. Guanxi 05:16, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Using the kW/capita (electricity consumption/capita) number only looks at electricity usage. You should be plotting the TPES (Total Primary Energy Supply) per capita on the x-axis if you want to show total energy usage per capita. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.156.138.21 (talk) 18:47, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Picture representing correlation petween energy consumption and GDP makes no sence. Presented data are missleading. For example, GDP per caprita of russia IS NOT $3000 and never been of this value. For example CIA fact book estimates it as $14600 wich is about 5 times bigger. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rs.html Distrivbution of such missleading information in Wikipedia is stupid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.88.105 (talk • contribs) 15:07, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Data for Russia has been checked and verified to be correct from the reference (143.85 million population, USD 328.81 Billion GDP or $2,286/person, in 2004). These numbers are in 2000 dollars, while the CIA figures are GDP(PPP)/person in 2007 (and using 2007 dollars), where PPP stands for Purchasing power parity. According to the IMF, GDP/person has gone up about 61% in Russia from 2004 to 2008, adjusting for inflation. 199.125.109.29 (talk) 22:11, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

kW/capita?[edit]

kW is a measure of power, not energy. Either it's a typo and the author meant kWh, or the author is using installed electrical capacity per capita on the x-axis, which isn't very useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.15.75.182 (talk) 19:20, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually kW is a better measure of the rate of using energy than kWh, because if it was given in kWh you would have to ask over what period of time. kW is a measure of the average energy, since energy is power times time. 199.125.109.29 (talk) 22:11, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's only better if you know what time iterval it averages because kW is a very non-continuous function. Giving kWh/year states more clearly the rate of energy consumption and is what you'd expect from that kind of diagram. Especially because the GDP is given per year..also giving something like energy - why not extract the time period from this value? 83.171.151.37 (talk) 17:17, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Real Energy Consumption Numbers by Nation?[edit]

Can anyone find real energy consumption numbers worldwide by nation? I'm actually interested in fossil fuel consumption, but even broken down for various major forms of fossil fuel would be helpful. Mostly I want to see how nations of the world compare. Uphiller (talk) 14:36, 14 May 2009 (UTC)Uphiller[reply]