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- Comparing World energy consumption with the United States consumption is difficult, because the statistics are more complete for the United States than for the rest of the world.
- U.S. consumption fell from approximately 31 percent of World energy consumption in 1972 to 25 percent in 1996.
- The share of U.S. consumption stabilized because the growth in the developing world energy consumption de-emphasized growth in U.S. energy consumption.
Source: Energy Information Administration, International Energy Annual 1996, DOE/EIA-0219(96). (Washington, DC, February 1998), Table E1.
Note(s): There is a discontinuity in the time series between 1989 and 1990. In the United States, expanded coverage of nonutility use of renewable energy began in 1990. Independent power producers' use of coal was included in U.S. consumption beginning in 1992 -- the changes are too small to show.
