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In general, Indian homes use very little power.

A fan or open windows are likely to replace central heating/aircon, a bicycle or public transport a car, a radio a television, and locally sourced wood-fired stoves electricity and gas in the kitchen.

Your global 'energy consumption' figure probably includes stupid things like American industrial agriculture, Dubai, the US military, people's calories from food, ~free geothermal power in volcanic zones, established hydropower, etc.

[lucaspiller]

> Dubai

The UAE as a whole only consumes 15% more energy per capita than the US. Given how much smaller it's population is (around the size of NYC), it seems unfair to include it in the list. I assume that number also includes how much energy is needed to produce oil, which is exported worldwide.

The country is heavily investing in renewables, Dubai wants to supply 7% of power by solar from 2020, and 75% by 2050.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_co... (sort 2013 by capita)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_the_United_Arab...

[contingencies]

OK so good point - as usual looking at real numbers is far more informative... Qatar is way worse, yadda yadda.

That said, the US is a pretty bad yardstick. Another way to look at it would be to say that the average UAE citizen uses 250% of what an Iranian uses, or the average Qatar citizen uses 650% of what an Iranian uses, despite a (very) broadly similar climate and self-sufficient energy production.

The US citizen uses 11x more than an Indian, who is only slightly ahead of a North Korean (despite a horrific climate), both of whom are ~3x more than a Bengali.