Statistics In numbers Energy around the world Since 2019, In Australia, US energy production renewables continued to increase Fossil fuels petroleum, natural gas, and coal data shows as a share of total generation in 2020. Renewables are now at 24% , up from 21% the previous year has exceeded energy consumption. accounted for about 79% of total US primary energy production in 2021 Less than 3% of global In 2019, oil renewables jobs are in Africa, despite the vast resource potential in wind, solar, hydro and geothermal energy Global nuclear power generation reached 2,653 terawatthours in 2021, a year-on-year increase of nearly 4%. Figures have been on a mostly increasing trend since 2012 accounted 30.9% for of global energy supply, down from 46.2% in 1973 Transport remains the biggest component of energy consumption in the UK, though this share was almost 6 percentage points lower in 2021 than in 2019