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Hannah Ritchie
Our World in Data / University of Oxford
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Renewable Energy
Since the Industrial Revolution, the energy mix of most countries across the world has become dominated by fossil fuels. This has major implications for the global climate, as well as for human health. Three-quarters of
2020 · 3 min
Contemporary · Our World in Data
Nuclear Energy
This article was first published in July 2020. We revised this page in August 2026 to reflect the change in how primary energy is measured.
2020 · 3 min