USSR vs Zimbabwe: Annual percentage change in primary energy use

USSR

-1.6%

in 1991

Zimbabwe

25.8%

in 2024

USSR rank

3rd

Zimbabwe rank

2nd

Annual percentage change in primary energy use over time

Zimbabwe currently reports 25.8% against -1.6% in USSR, a difference of 27.4%.

That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 16.5 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 11 shared years of data; in 1981 it was USSR ahead.

USSR ranks 3rd and Zimbabwe ranks 2nd of 3 groups.

Indicator: Annual percentage change in primary energy use
Unit: %
Source: Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017); U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 219 places, 10,323 data points, 1966–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Percentage change in total energy supply relative to the previous year.