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It's not the whole picture, but I think people would be interested in this :
Renewable energy by country
Should be divided by the population. Unless you are exporting electricity, your production will be based on population. China has 4.2 times the population of the US so they actually produce less renewable energy per citizen than the US.
On that same note, Finland produces 3X the renewable energy per citizen compared with the US.
I disagree. While most things are best measured per capita dividing it this way is kind of silly. China uses MUCH less energy per person than the US. As does every country. So it's not really a useful comparison. It's better to look at the percentage of total energy usage by country that is renewables. Dividing it by person ignores the fact that the average USian just uses an absolute metric fuckton of energy day to day. Like many times the global average. For China specifically, the average US person uses 2.5-3x more energy than the average Chinese person.
Good point. Population usage should be taken into account.