Energy use per Capita (kg of oil equivalent per capita) in 1971:
China 465.52
Nepal 309.81
Sri Lanka 299.28
Pakistan 280.04
India 275.56
Bangladesh 84.08
Energy use per Capita (kg of oil equivalent per capita) in 2011:
China 2029.36
India 613.72
Sri Lanka 499.34
Pakistan 481.62
Nepal 382.64
Bangladesh 204.72
An under-reported story seems to be that of Nepal which has stagnated for some 20 years according to energy use statistics (1970-1990) and exchanged places with India in South Asian Rankings in the mean time.
Also, India is one of those places that has experienced a decrease in subjective well being and sense of free choice. (Post-independence Fabianism?)
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Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary.
Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin.
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