This publication is the sixth in a series of pocketbook compilations on energy  statistics designed to highlight the availability of data on various aspects of  energy production, transformation and use and its linkages to other key  statistics. Energy is central to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for  Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change,  and sound energy statistics are the basis for the reliable measurement of  progress, thereby assisting the formulation of policy measures to achieve  international and national sustainable development goals. 

The information in this publication is primarily based on the energy data  collection carried out by the Energy Statistics Section of the United Nations  Statistics Division (UNSD). The data are available in the 2020 editions of the  Energy Statistics Yearbook, the Energy Balances, and the Electricity Profiles,  three annual UNSD publications that present energy data in basic indicator  formats, as well as formats that show a more detailed, yet number-heavy,  picture of production, trade, transformation and consumption of energy  products in more than 200 countries and territories. 

The present publication aims at providing additional information by  highlighting key indicators and using different visualizations to also show  developments, dependencies and distributions in a way that standard  data tables cannot convey.