Growth of energy consumption and national income throughout the world

This study of actually recorded trends of energy consumption in every country in the world serves to provide a springboard for long-term projections Energy universally and increasingly has become a major subject of public interest; its indispensability to the orderly functioning and steady growth of a nation's economy has come to be regarded as axiomatic. In practically every country, short- and long-term expectations of energy requirements are the object of continuing statistical study and reappraisal at the highest government and industry levels.