Calculate per capita energy use and energy intensity for the following countries:

a. China
b. Australia
c. Mexico
d. Kenya
e. Germany

What will be an ideal response?


Note that a common error for this problem is that students confuse total energy use and total electricity, often thinking that electricity is total energy. The relevant data from Table 8.1 are:

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