Food Retail — Energy Use (Heat) by country

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions from Pre- and post- agricultural production includes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and related activity data, generated from pre- and post-agriculture production stages of the agri-food systems. Data are computed following the Tier 1 methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on...

Countries reporting
46
Highest
235,940 TJ
Russian Federation
Lowest
0.2907 TJ
Malta
Median
1,918 TJ
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
1,738

What the numbers show

Food Retail — Energy Use (Heat) is currently reported for 46 countries. The highest value is 235,940 TJ in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0.2907 TJ in Malta.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,918 TJ, and the mean is 13,466 TJ.

Over the past decade 24 countries rose and 22 fell. The largest increase was in Canada (up 715.0%), and the largest decrease in China, Taiwan Province of (down 85.1%).

Food Retail — Energy Use: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Russian Federation 235,940 TJ 2023 up 9.1% rising
2 OECD 157,508 TJ 2023 up 2.8% rising
3 Kazakhstan 30,453 TJ 2023 up 107.7% rising
4 Germany 19,676 TJ 2023 down 1.8% falling
5 Ukraine 18,274 TJ 2023 down 52.9% falling
6 Sweden 18,147 TJ 2023 down 2.5% rising
7 Poland 14,344 TJ 2023 down 5.6% rising
8 Finland 14,316 TJ 2023 up 2.5% rising
9 France 11,713 TJ 2023 up 22.2% rising
10 Denmark 10,612 TJ 2023 up 0.5% rising
11 Belarus 9,769 TJ 2023 down 40.6% falling
12 Japan 9,502 TJ 2023 up 21.5% rising
13 Austria 8,670 TJ 2023 down 11.1% rising
14 Mongolia 7,653 TJ 2023 up 117.6% volatile
15 Czechia 5,602 TJ 2023 down 15.8% falling
16 Norway 5,046 TJ 2023 up 43.3% volatile
17 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4,766 TJ 2023 down 13.9% volatile
18 Republic of Korea 4,694 TJ 2023 up 10.2% volatile
19 Iceland 4,256 TJ 2023 up 14.0% rising
20 Italy 2,858 TJ 2023 up 34.4% volatile
21 Lithuania 2,381 TJ 2023 up 0.7% falling
22 Hungary 2,023 TJ 2023 up 5.1% falling
23 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 1,982 TJ 2023 down 3.9% flat
24 Luxembourg 1,854 TJ 2023 up 119.8% rising
25 Slovakia 1,826 TJ 2023 up 36.9% falling
26 Romania 1,756 TJ 2023 down 43.0% falling
27 Bulgaria 1,715 TJ 2023 up 20.8% falling
28 Estonia 1,677 TJ 2023 up 19.0% rising
29 Switzerland 1,674 TJ 2023 up 11.3% flat
30 Latvia 1,572 TJ 2023 down 14.3% falling
31 Kyrgyzstan 1,550 TJ 2023 up 99.3% rising
32 Serbia 1,538 TJ 2023 up 7.5% rising
33 Belgium 1,160 TJ 2023 up 109.1% rising
34 Croatia 659.9 TJ 2023 down 32.5% falling
35 Slovenia 626.83 TJ 2023 down 8.6% falling
36 Bosnia and Herzegovina 421.08 TJ 2023 up 8.9% rising
37 Republic of Moldova 420.42 TJ 2023 down 42.8% falling
38 Azerbaijan 343.5 TJ 2023 down 2.2% rising
39 Portugal 177.15 TJ 2023 down 49.7% rising
40 North Macedonia 137.56 TJ 2023 down 25.5% falling
41 Canada 88.02 TJ 2023 up 715.0% volatile
42 Greenland 53.64 TJ 2023 down 1.1% flat
43 Georgia 21.23 TJ 2012 down 76.3% volatile
44 China, Taiwan Province of 1.07 TJ 2023 down 85.1% volatile
44 China 1.07 TJ 2023 down 85.1% volatile
46 Malta 0.2907 TJ 2023 down 11.9% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Food Retail — Energy Use (Heat)
Unit
TJ
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
65 places, 1,738 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions from Pre- and post- agricultural production includes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and related activity data, generated from pre- and post-agriculture production stages of the agri-food systems. Data are computed following the Tier 1 methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National greenhouse gas (GHG) Inventories (IPCC, 1996; 1997; 2000; 2002; 2006; 2014). The domain includes methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) and CO2 equivalent (CO2eq) emissions from the above activities as well as the aggregate fluorinated gases (F-gases) emissions. Estimates are available by country, with global coverage and are updated annually.The FAOSTAT domain disseminates information estimates of CH4, N2O, CO2 emissions, F-gases, their aggregates in CO2eq in units of kilotonnes (kt, or 10^6 kg), and the underlying activity data. CO2eq emissions are computed by using the IPCC Fifth Assessment report global warming potentials, AR5 (IPCC, 2014). Data are available for most countries and territories, for standard FAOSTAT regional aggregations, and for Annex I and non-Annex I country groups.