Understanding the role of energy consumption in human development through the use of saturation phenomena

摘要: A correlation is presented between the UN human development index and per capita energy consumption for 120 nations. strong relationship values observed majority of world. Additionally, a distinct secondary trend emerges from dataset, representing heavy exporters such as Organization Petroleum Exporting Countries some Former Soviet Union nations, among others. The preliminary observation made that these two trends closely resemble saturation curves, exhibited by variety natural phenomena. For primary trend, three regions are isolated: steep rise in relative to energy-poor nations; moderate transitioning essentially no energy-advantaged consuming large amounts modern energy. These correlations suggest tremendous gains possible world's poorest, with small incremental access