Energy data collection at UNSD includes two streams: annual data collection via the Annual Questionnaire on Energy Statistics (AQES) and monthly data collection via JODI and MBS (Monthly Bulletin of Statistics) Questionnaires.

Annual Questionnaire on Energy Statistics

The Annual Questionnaire on Energy Statistics (AQES) is part of the regular UNSD data collection programme. It covers statistics such as production, trade, transformation and use of energy products.


The Questionnaire reflects the recommendations brought about by the International Recommendations for Energy Statistics (IRES), which was adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission in February 2011, inter alia in order to harmonize data collection across international organizations.


UNSD is currently collecting new energy statistics for 2021, but countries are encouraged to enter 2022 data in the Questionnaire even if provisional and subject to revision.


Annual Questionnaire on Energy Statistics
  • Arabic - XLS, Chinese - XLS, English - XLS Español - XLS, Français - XLS, Russian - XLS
Annual Questionnaire on Energy Statistics - Calorific values
  • English - XLS
Guidelines for the Annual Questionnaire on Energy Statistics
  • English - PDF

Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) questionnaires

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) is cooperating with seven international/regional organizations - APEC, Eurostat, GECF, IEA, IEF, OLADE and OPEC - in the Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI), which consists of a decentralized but coordinated monthly data collection of selected oil and gas statistics through the JODI Oil and JODI Gas questionnaires.
The database can be accessed on the JODI website.

JODI Oil and JODI Gas questionnaires
  • JODI Oil - XLS
  • JODI Gas - XLS
Guidelines for the JODI Oil and JODI Gas questionnaires
    For more information on JODI Oil and JODI Gas questionnaires please refer to the JODI Oil and JODI Gas manuals in the methodology website.

Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (MBS) questionnaire

Statistics on the production of hard coal, brown coal, crude oil, natural gas and electricity are collected on a monthly basis via the MBS questionnaire.

For more information please refer to the MBS website.