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26 World Bank indicators, compared across France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China. Each tile shows the annual series since 1960 and the latest known value for each country. Hover a chart to read a given year.

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Energy per capita

EG.USE.PCAP.KG.OE · kg

19902024

Latest known value by country

  • France3,184.79 kg2024
  • Germany2,824.59 kg2024
  • United Kingdom2,069.38 kg2024
  • Italy2,231.2 kg2024
  • Spain2,303.61 kg2024
  • Netherlands3,415.76 kg2024
  • United States6,361.44 kg2024
  • China2,850.94 kg2023

Energy use refers to use of primary energy before transformation to other end-use fuels, which is equal to indigenous production plus imports and stock changes, minus exports and fuels supplied to ships and aircraft...

Forest area

AG.LND.FRST.ZS · %

19902023

Latest known value by country

  • France32.48%2023
  • Germany32.68%2023
  • United Kingdom13.29%2023
  • Italy32.89%2023
  • Spain37.19%2023
  • Netherlands11.06%2023
  • United States33.87%2023
  • China24.03%2023

Forest area (% of land area) is the share of total land area that is under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production...

Total forest area

AG.LND.FRST.K2 · km²

19902023

Latest known value by country

  • France175,032 km²2023
  • Germany114,190 km²2023
  • United Kingdom32,154 km²2023
  • Italy97,276 km²2023
  • Spain185,850 km²2023
  • Netherlands3,723.04 km²2023
  • United States3.1 m km²2023
  • China2.26 m km²2023

Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and...

Electricity access

EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS · %

19902024

Latest known value by country

  • France100%2024
  • Germany100%2024
  • United Kingdom100%2024
  • Italy100%2024
  • Spain100%2024
  • Netherlands100%2024
  • United States100%2024
  • China100%2024

Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity.

Renewable energy

EG.FEC.RNEW.ZS · %

19902021

Latest known value by country

  • France16.2%2021
  • Germany17.6%2021
  • United Kingdom12.2%2021
  • Italy17.5%2021
  • Spain19%2021
  • Netherlands12.2%2021
  • United States10.9%2021
  • China15.2%2021

Renewable energy consumption is the share of renewable energy in total final energy consumption.

Renewable electricity

EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS · %

19902021

Latest known value by country

  • France22.8%2021
  • Germany39.83%2021
  • United Kingdom40.2%2021
  • Italy40.97%2021
  • Spain47.01%2021
  • Netherlands33.13%2021
  • United States20.27%2021
  • China28.43%2021

Renewable electricity is the share of electricity generated by renewable power plants in total electricity generated by all types of plants.

Fossil electricity

EG.ELC.FOSL.ZS · %

19902023

Latest known value by country

  • France7.44%2023
  • Germany43.2%2023
  • United Kingdom37.06%2023
  • Italy54.23%2023
  • Spain27.29%2023
  • Netherlands47.96%2023
  • United States59.3%2023
  • China64.4%2023

The share of electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources of total electricity production.

Nuclear electricity

EG.ELC.NUCL.ZS · %

19902024

Latest known value by country

  • France66.8%2024
  • Germany1.41%2023
  • United Kingdom14.22%2024
  • Italy0%2021
  • Spain18.94%2024
  • Netherlands2.89%2024
  • United States17.74%2024
  • China4.55%2023

The share of electricity production from nuclear sources of total electricity production.

Climate disasters

EN.CLC.MDAT.ZS

2009

Latest known value by country

  • France0.012009
  • Germany0.032009
  • United Kingdom0.032009
  • Italy0.012009
  • Spain0.732009
  • Netherlands02009
  • United States0.212009
  • China7.952009

Droughts, floods and extreme temperatures is the annual average percentage of the population that is affected by natural disasters classified as either droughts, floods, or extreme temperature events.

Agricultural land

AG.LND.AGRI.ZS · %

19612023

Latest known value by country

  • France52.5%2023
  • Germany47.47%2023
  • United Kingdom70.31%2023
  • Italy44.26%2023
  • Spain49.58%2023
  • Netherlands53.55%2023
  • United States46.08%2023
  • China55.43%2023

Agricultural land refers to the share of land area that is arable, under permanent crops, and under permanent pastures.

Freshwater withdrawals

ER.H2O.FWTL.ZS · %

19702022

Latest known value by country

  • France12.21%2022
  • Germany24.11%2022
  • United Kingdom5.81%2022
  • Italy18.51%2022
  • Spain26.1%2022
  • Netherlands74.86%2022
  • United States15.77%2022
  • China20.21%2022

Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals, not counting evaporation losses from storage basins.

Cereal yield

AG.YLD.CREL.KG · kg/ha

19612024

Latest known value by country

  • France6,280.8 kg/ha2024
  • Germany7,007.3 kg/ha2023
  • United Kingdom7,137.9 kg/ha2023
  • Italy5,059.4 kg/ha2023
  • Spain3,785.9 kg/ha2024
  • Netherlands6,805.7 kg/ha2024
  • United States8,413.5 kg/ha2024
  • China6,418.1 kg/ha2023

Cereal yield, measured as kilograms per hectare of harvested land, includes wheat, rice, maize, barley, oats, rye, millet, sorghum, buckwheat, and mixed grains.

PM2.5 pollution

EN.ATM.PM25.MC.M3 · µg/m³

19902023

Latest known value by country

  • France8.23 µg/m³2023
  • Germany8.81 µg/m³2023
  • United Kingdom9.46 µg/m³2023
  • Italy14.29 µg/m³2023
  • Spain10.08 µg/m³2023
  • Netherlands8.59 µg/m³2023
  • United States6.97 µg/m³2023
  • China31.99 µg/m³2023

Population-weighted exposure to ambient PM2.5 pollution is defined as the average level of exposure of a nation's population to concentrations of suspended particles measuring less than 2.5 microns in aerodynamic...

Hydro electricity

EG.ELC.HYRO.ZS · %

19902024

Latest known value by country

  • France13.6%2024
  • Germany5.66%2024
  • United Kingdom2.75%2024
  • Italy20.2%2024
  • Spain14.18%2024
  • Netherlands0.07%2024
  • United States5.83%2024
  • China13.47%2023

The share of electricity production from hydroelectric sources of total electricity production.

Coal electricity

EG.ELC.COAL.ZS · %

19902024

Latest known value by country

  • France0.36%2024
  • Germany23.53%2024
  • United Kingdom0.94%2024
  • Italy1.76%2024
  • Spain1.2%2024
  • Netherlands8.16%2024
  • United States15.69%2024
  • China61.34%2023

The share of electricity production from coal sources of total electricity production.

Gas electricity

EG.ELC.NGAS.ZS · %

19902024

Latest known value by country

  • France3.11%2024
  • Germany17.48%2024
  • United Kingdom30.5%2024
  • Italy43.75%2024
  • Spain18.18%2024
  • Netherlands35.76%2024
  • United States41.97%2024
  • China2.97%2023

The share of electricity production from natural gas sources of total electricity production.

Oil electricity

EG.ELC.PETR.ZS · %

19902024

Latest known value by country

  • France1.23%2024
  • Germany0.96%2024
  • United Kingdom0.6%2024
  • Italy3.16%2024
  • Spain3.17%2024
  • Netherlands1.09%2024
  • United States0.67%2024
  • China0.1%2023

The share of electricity production from oil sources of total electricity production.

Energy imports

EG.IMP.CONS.ZS · %

19902023

Latest known value by country

  • France47.13%2023
  • Germany70.49%2023
  • United Kingdom44.04%2023
  • Italy79.6%2023
  • Spain76.98%2023
  • Netherlands87.02%2023
  • United States-9%2023
  • China23.96%2023

Net energy imports are estimated as gross imports less gross exports, both measured in tons of oil equivalents (toe).

Electricity per capita

EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC · kWh

19902024

Latest known value by country

  • France6,447.21 kWh2024
  • Germany6,109.09 kWh2024
  • United Kingdom4,194.89 kWh2024
  • Italy5,136.68 kWh2024
  • Spain5,196.11 kWh2024
  • Netherlands6,386.37 kWh2024
  • United States12,839 kWh2024
  • China6,523.72 kWh2023

Electric power consumption measures the production of power plants and combined heat and power plants less transmission, distribution, and transformation losses and own use by heat and power plants.

Protected areas

ER.PTD.TOTL.ZS · %

20132025

Latest known value by country

  • France36.7%2025
  • Germany40%2025
  • United Kingdom42.1%2025
  • Italy14.8%2025
  • Spain22.1%2025
  • Netherlands29.8%2025
  • United States15.8%2025
  • China14.7%2025

Terrestrial protected areas are totally or partially protected areas of at least 1,000 hectares that are designated by national authorities as scientific reserves with limited public access, national parks, natural...

Precipitation

AG.LND.PRCP.MM · mm

19612022

Latest known value by country

  • France867 mm2022
  • Germany700 mm2022
  • United Kingdom1,220 mm2022
  • Italy832 mm2022
  • Spain636 mm2022
  • Netherlands778 mm2022
  • United States715 mm2022
  • China645 mm2022

Average precipitation is the long-term average in depth (over space and time) of annual precipitation in the country.

Renewable water / capita

ER.H2O.INTR.PC · m³

19612022

Latest known value by country

  • France2,933.22 m³2022
  • Germany1,286.4 m³2022
  • United Kingdom2,143.83 m³2022
  • Italy3,092.5 m³2022
  • Spain2,327.04 m³2022
  • Netherlands621.43 m³2022
  • United States8,437.22 m³2022
  • China1,991.89 m³2022

Renewable internal freshwater resources flows refer to internal renewable resources (internal river flows and groundwater from rainfall) in the country.

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Source: Banque mondiale, World Bank Open Data, data.worldbank.org. Annual data, fetched server side and cached for 24 hours.