Kilowatt Hours per Capita and GDP per Capita, 2010

This is a simple data frame of the GDP per capita and kilowatt hours consumed per capita of over 130 sovereign states in 2010.

Usage

kwh_gdp

Format

A data frame the following 7 variables.

country

the name of the country

iso3c

the three-character ISO code of the country

year

the year of observation (2010)

kwhpc

the electric power consumption (kilowatt hours) per capita of the country

gdppc

the GDP per capita of the country in current USD

ln_kwhpc

the (log-transformed) electric power consumption (kilowatt hours) per capita of the country

ln_gdppc

the (log-transformed) GDP per capita of the country in current USD

Details

Data come from a use of the WDI() function in the WDI package. The GDP per capita data come from a combination of the World Bank and OECD. The energy consumption data come from the International Energy Agency. Data exist to be used in a simple scatterplot.