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title: Energy demand in China has increased rapidly over the last few decades due to rising incomes and industrialization.
description: "The country now uses about the same amount of energy per person as the European Union. You can see this in this chart, with new data from the Energy Institute’s Statistical Review of World Energy.\nThis measure of primary energy is based on the substitution method, which tries to account for the inefficiencies of fossil fuels compared to renewables.\n\nSource: Our world in data\n(This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie and Pablo Rosado.)"
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# [Energy demand in China has increased rapidly over the last few decades due to rising incomes and industrialization.](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/breaking-the-odds-of-president-biden-winning-the-2024-democratic-nomination-are-down-by-24-in-2-hours-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1719-b2f07e43)

 Written by [Charles-Henry Monchau, CFA, CMT, CAIA](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/author/charles-henry-monchau) | Jul 5, 2024, 6:48:11 AM

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