World Vitals / Health and environmental costs
Compare health and environmental impacts across electricity and energy sources.
Energy-impact pages should separate lifecycle emissions, air-pollution deaths, land use, and mining impacts.
The primary charts now come from normalized database observations. Snapshot cards remain useful for latest values, but time series and paired relationships get chart types that match the question.
Database charts
These charts use normalized observations from the World Vitals database. Time-series charts show change; scatter plots show paired relationships where the data actually supports comparison.
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Mean annual PM2.5 exposure is the cleanest global baseline for air-pollution pressure.
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This share covers total energy use, so it is broader than electricity generation alone.
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Final energy consumption gives the energy-impact page a broader transition signal.
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Per-capita electricity consumption shows demand pressure without hiding population scale.
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Oil rents as a share of GDP help connect fossil fuels to macroeconomic dependence.
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Gas rents are tracked separately because gas markets and energy-security risk behave differently from oil.
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Coal rents help separate extraction income from consumption and emissions.
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The relationship uses total energy shares rather than electricity alone.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
Metric snapshots
Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.
IEA reported global electricity demand growth for 2023, with higher growth forecast through 2026.
International Energy Agency / 2023Projected total global CO2 emissions including fossil fuels and land-use change.
Global Carbon Project / 2025 projectionWorld Bank estimate of the share of the global population with access to electricity.
World Bank / 2023WHO Global Health Estimates identify ischaemic heart disease as the leading cause of death.
World Health Organization / 2021Run-rate estimate from Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 projection.
Global Carbon Project / 2025 projectionWorld Bank world under-5 mortality estimate, deaths per 1,000 live births.
World Bank / 2024Related topics
Follow access to electricity and global electricity demand signals from World Bank and IEA sources.
Emissions and exposureTrack air pollutant emissions, particulate exposure, and related health burden indicators.
Production, reserves, and valueTrack mineral production, reserves, prices, and energy-transition material demand.