This is great, giasen!
Thank you for going to the trouble to calculate and scale everything.
It's interesting what you say about Singapore. I noticed Luxembourg stands out like crazy too. I suspect this may be because these countries are very small yet very industrialized and wealthy. So maybe there is a certain amount of consumption in wealthy nations regardless of population and then the per-capita consumption comes on top of that? Either that or I suppose it could be a statistical blip but since it happens
twice that seems less likely.
I noticed a couple of other small issues which are no doubt due to the data set you access but I though I'd mention them anyway : For example did you notice South Africa? Perhaps it simply doesn't publish consumption data
because, if anything, I would have expected its consumption to be higher than its neighbors not zero!
Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka and New Zealand too.
Also there are strange 'holes' in some countries. For example, look at India, Sudan, Chad. I don't know what could be causing these but they are minor really since the outline shows the consumption well enough.
All in all a very fascinating overview with a number of surprises. For example I would not have guessed that Scandinavia and the Benelux countries would have such a large consumption relative to their neighbors. Also it is interesting just how much the oil-producing nations themselves use. Perhaps a measure of their (oil-derived) affluence?
Excellent post - thanks again!
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