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Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)

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, divided by midyear population.

Source: World Bank208 rowsUpdated: 9/20/2026License: CC-BY-4.0
energyelectricityclimateworld-bank

Quality

99.6

Attribution

World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org)

Schema

ColumnTypeDescription
country_codestringISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code).
country_namestringCountry name as published by the World Bank API.
yearintegerCalendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date).
valuefloatIndicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: kWh per capita)

Sample rows

country_codecountry_nameyearvalue
CANCanada200016844.4746140959
CANCanada200116625.7828805815
CANCanada200216912.1985545613
CANCanada200316920.8709777662
CANCanada200416823.8281411075

Use with an LLM

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/electric_power_consumption" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/electric_power_consumption").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/electric_power_consumption

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.

Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)