Production of Electricity

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This dataset contains Production of Electricity-by type from 2012-2019.  Data from United Nations Statistics Division. Follow datasource.kapsarc.org for timely data to advance energy economics research.

Notes: 

-  Refer back to the original source for numbers estimated by the United Nations Statistics Division (numbers with * symbol).

- Please refer to the Definitions Section on pages ix to xv for the appropriate product description/ classification, and xvi to xvii for the descriptions of relevant flows.

- (Other) under total producers refer to geothermal, tide, wave, marine, electricity from chemical heat, and other non-specified sources. 

- (Other) under autoproducers refers to nuclear (if any), wind, solar, tide, wave, marine,

electricity from chemical heat, and other nonspecified sources. 

- (Other) under main activity, producers refer to wind, solar, tide, wave, marine,

electricity from chemical heat, and other nonspecified sources


Dataset Identifier
production-of-electricity-by-type
Downloads
86
Themes
Electricity, Crude Oil & Refined Products
Keywords
Solar, Nuclear, Wind, Hydro, Combustible Fuels
License
Public Domain
Language
English
Modified
13 January 2025 15:15
Publisher
United Nations Statistics Division
Reference
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/energystats/pubs/yearbook/
Attributions
Energy Statistics Yearbook > Electricity and heat > 32. Production of electricity - by type
Last checked date
3 April 2025
Country
World
ISO region
WORLD
Source copyrights
http://www.un.org/en/sections/about-website/terms-use/
Data classification
Public
Discontinued Data
No
Unit of measure
GWH, GigaWatt Hour
Publisher Periodicity
Annualy
Expected next release
3 April 2026
Territory
World ,
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Last processing
3 April 2025 22:11 (metadata)
13 January 2025 15:15 (data)

DCAT

Accrual periodicity
Annually
Temporal
2012-2019
Granularity
Global

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