This publication is the fourth 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 2018 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.