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Coal consumption	20,890,000		[21st of 41]
Commercial energy use	4,366.02		[20th of 119]
DEFINITION: Commercial energy use (kg of oil equivalent per capita). Commercial energy use refers to apparent consumption, which is equal to indigenous production plus imports and stock changes, minus exports and fuels supplied to ships and aircraft engaged in international transport.
SOURCE: Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy
Electric power consumption > kWh	478,101,000,000 kWh		[8th of 132]
DEFINITION: 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.		View time series
Electricity > Production by source > Fossil fuel	8.2%		[192nd of 223]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of electricity generated from each energy source. These are fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, and other (solar, geothermal, and wind).		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Electricity > Production by source > Nuclear	77.1%		[2nd of 223]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of electricity generated from each energy source. These are fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, and other (solar, geothermal, and wind).		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Gasoline prices	1.62		[12th of 141]
DEFINITION: Ratio of premium gasoline price to world average Units: Ratio of Gasoline Price to World Average Units: Pump price for super gasoline (US$ per liter): Fuel prices refer to the pump prices of the most widely sold grade of gasoline. Prices have been converted from the local currency to U.S. dollars, and the ratio of the gas price to the world average in the same time period was used in order to normalize the data. For more information, see World Development Indicators, Table 3.12.
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Geothermal power use	1,360		[9th of 53]
DEFINITION: Annual utilization of geothermal power from direct-use sources in GWh/yr as of 2000.
SOURCE: German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Fuel Prices and Taxation (1999) and the electronic update for2000. Available from World Bank, World Development Indicators 2002, WDI table 3.12. via ciesin.org
Natural gas reserves	12,860,000,000 cubic feet		[58th of 72]
SOURCE: Lund and Freeston; Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2000
Nuclear electricity generation	415.5 terawatt-hours		[3rd of 29]
DEFINITION: Number of terrawatt-hours of nuclear energy consumed per country per year.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Nuclear energy consumption	437 terawatt-hours		[2nd of 28]
DEFINITION: Number of terrawatt-hours of nuclear energy consumed per country per year. Figures are provided for the year 2002.
SOURCE: ANSTO, IAEA, WNA
Nuclear reactors operable	59		[3rd of 29]
SOURCE: BP
Nuclear waste generated	2.18		[3rd of 45]
DEFINITION: Nuclear waste generated Units: Standardized Scale (z-score) Units: Two variables were initially available for Radioactive Waste: Accumulated Quantity (cubic meters) as generated and Accumulated Quantity (cubic meters) after treatment. We calculated the z-scores for the two variables, in order to make them comparable, and took whichever variable was available for each country. For the three countries (Australia, Canada and Czech Republic) which had both variables, we took the higher.
SOURCE: ANSTO, IAEA, WNA
Oil imports > Net	1,850,000 barrels per day		[4th of 21]
SOURCE: International Atomic Energy Agency, Waste Management Database, 1997 via ciesin.org
Oil reserves	144,300,000 barrels		[63rd of 97]
DEFINITION: According to Web definitions the term refers to the total amount of petroleum (oil) discovered in any given oil field or nation. Thus it can be said that Kuwait has xxxx millions of barrels (mb) of oil in the ground. However, the exact amount can never be known, simply because of the difficulty in sensing or "seeing" beneath the surface of the Earth. The term Proven Reserve or PR refers to an amount of oil that is generally accepted by geologists to be the actual amount of petroleum in the ground.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Primary Energy Consumption > Million tonnes oil equivalent	262.9		[8th of 63]
DEFINITION: Primary Energy: Consumption, Million tonnes oil equivalent, as of end of 2004 Notes: Others have less than 0.05
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Traditional fuel consumption	5.7%		[76th of 130]
DEFINITION: Traditional fuel consumption as a % of total energy use.
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005
Usage per person	4.25 TOE per person		[10th of 18]
DEFINITION: Total primary energy supply TOE (tonnes of oil equivalent) per person (Year 2000).
SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Wall plugs > Plug type Europe
DEFINITION: PowerStream
SOURCE: lEA, Energy Balances of OECD Countries 1999-2000 (lEA, Paris, 2001)
Wall plugs > Voltage	230 V		[67th of 209]
DEFINITION: PowerStream
Wind energy installation	386 MW		[16th of 53]
DEFINITION: Worldwide wind energy installation figures per country as at 31 December 2004

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