Australia vs Qatar: Fossil fuel consumption by fuel

Australia

387.19 terawatt-hours

in 2025

Qatar

438.17 terawatt-hours

in 2025

Australia rank

24th

Qatar rank

22nd

Fossil fuel consumption by fuel over time

Qatar currently reports 438.17 terawatt-hours against 387.19 terawatt-hours in Australia, a difference of 50.97 terawatt-hours.

That makes Qatar's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 61 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Qatar ahead.

Australia ranks 24th and Qatar ranks 22nd of 219 countries.

Indicator: Fossil fuel consumption by fuel
Unit: terawatt-hours
Source: Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026); Etemad & Luciani (1991) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 222 places, 10,411 data points, 1965–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured in terawatt-hours.