Founded during the oil crisis of 1973-74, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has a very similar membership and structure as the OECD. However, its primary focus is energy and environmental policy. It produces data on energy security, production, trade, stocks, transformation, consumption, prices, taxes and environmental sustainability. Designed for cross country comparability, the IEA databases are global databanks covering around 130 countries. The majority contain annual time series data from 1960 onwards.
Access to the IEA databases is usually by (very expensive) individual subscription. The UK Data Service provides free access to UK academics to the IEA databases.
Databases produce by the IEA:
- Energy Statistics of OECD Countries
- Energy Balances of OECD Countries
- Energy Statistics of Non-OECD Countries
- Energy Balances of Non-OECD Countries
- World Energy Balances
- World Energy Statistics
- CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion
- Energy Prices and Taxes
- Energy Technology Research and Development Database
- Electricity information
- Coal Information
- Natural Gas Information
- Oil Information
- Renewables Information
- IEA projections
This example shows CO2 emmisions from electricity generation in Latin America.
