This week I decided to use some numbers for energy statistics I found the other day. With the data derived from US Energy Information Administration, I created a map of the world energy trade.

Inspecting the map, certain patterns are just there, together with some interesting results. Two of world’s greatest economies, China and the US both provide some of their energy from outside. On the other hand, Greenland has no means to produce energy.

Looking at the whole, Africa seems to be doing a lot better than Europe. Thanks to new oil field discoveries in Ghana and Niger, since 2008 these two countries have been exporting energy instead of importing. Because of inner conflicts, Syria moved in the opposite direction and became an importer. Increase in consumption in Argentina engendered a similar result.

Almost every country that is in need of energy, has a neighboring energy-rich provider, except for Europe countries. Considering recent events, we saw how fragile Europe’s energy situation can be. Apparently they will need even more alternatives. Until then Russia seems to remain the biggest and geographically closest provider.

Asia in general seems to be doing pretty well. Considering the production capacity of most Asian countries, we can say that they are in a good shape.

Here is a live version of the dashboard:

https://dv1.pagos.com/dashboardreport/Default.aspx?Link=0f8a6577-9dfd-4de5-bfce-8d05f0ec3e15