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  December 2009

Energy Statistics Yearbook


Introduction

The Energy Statistics Yearbook is a comprehensive collection of international energy statistics prepared annually by the United Nations Statistics Division. The 2006 edition of the Energy Statistics Yearbook is the forty-ninth in a series of annual compilations which commenced under the title World Energy Supplies in Selected Years, 1929-19501. Supplementary series of monthly and quarterly data on production of energy may be found in the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics2.

The 2007 edition of the Energy Statistics Yearbook will soon be available in printed and electronic versions.

The principal objective of the Yearbook is to provide internationally comparable data in the supply of primary and secondary forms of energy. Data for each type of fuel and aggregate data for the total mix of commercial fuels are shown for individual countries and areas and are summarized into regional and world totals.

This 2006 Energy Statistics Yearbook contains data in original and common units (coal equivalent, oil equivalent, joules) for the years 2003-2006. Complete time series for the period 1950-2006 are available on the Energy Statistics Database.


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The Energy Statistics Yearbook is bi-lingual (English and French) and is available in printed and electronic (PDF format) versions.

The data are compiled primarily from the UNSD Annual Questionnaire on Energy Statistics and supplemented with data from official national statistical publications and specialized and intergovernmental agencies. Where official data are not available, estimates are made by the Statistics Division based on governmental, professional or commercial materials. Estimates include, but are not limited to, extrapolated data based on partial year information, use of annual trends, trade data based on partner country reports, breakdowns of aggregated data as well as analysis of current energy events and activities.

Data sources used in supplementing our statistics include: Comité professionnel du pétrole (CPP), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), International Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development (IEA/OECD), International Sugar Organization (ISO), Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Organización Latinoamericana de Energía (OLADE), Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (STATCIS), Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), World Energy Council (WEC).

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1Statistical Papers, Series J, No. 1 (United Nations publication, Sales No. 1952.XVII.3).
2Statistical Papers, Series Q, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, (United Nations publication).
United Nations Statistics Division - Energy Statistics