In Norway 97% of new cars are electric, and it produces 17 tonnes of oil per resident a year
That is 31 times the world average of 0.56 t per person (2023). Norway's electricity is almost all clean, 99% of generation in 2025.
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At home Norway barely burns oil in cars and burns nothing in power plants: its electricity is water and wind. Yet it is a large oil producer, and almost all the oil goes abroad.
Bars: oil produced in 2023, in kilograms per resident (rounded to 100 kg).
- Norway: Electric cars: share of new car sales % of new car sales
2025: 97
- Norway: Low-carbon share of electricity % of generation
2025: 99
- Norway: Oil production million tonnes a year
2023: 94.6
- Norway: Population thousand persons, 1 July
2023: 5,519
- Saudi Arabia: Oil production million tonnes a year
2023: 528.9
- Saudi Arabia: Population thousand persons, 1 July
2023: 33,264
- Russia: Oil production million tonnes a year
2023: 541.6
- Russia: Population thousand persons, 1 July
2023: 145,440
- United States: Oil production million tonnes a year
2023: 830
- United States: Population thousand persons, 1 July
2023: 343,477
- World: Oil production million tonnes a year
2023: 4,521.3
- World: Population thousand persons, 1 July
2023: 8,091,735
Oil: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy: crude, shale oil, condensate and natural gas liquids, million tonnes. Divided by the UN population of the same year (the latest all countries have). Electric cars: IEA, share of new car sales; clean generation: Ember (renewables and nuclear).
Production is not consumption: Norway's oil is burned elsewhere. The years differ: oil per person uses the latest population year, cars and power the latest year. The card does not judge whether this is good or bad.
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