posted on 2020-08-25, 12:29authored byNatalie Curd
This research aimed to look at the relationship between energy use and development in
developing countries, to establish thresholds of energy provision for policy makers. An
extensive literature review provided the basis of knowledge for the analysis in this study.
Pearson correlations coefficients in this study were used to find the strength of the
relationship between energy use per capita, and various indicators of development, including
education, population (including urbanisation), infrastructure, health and gross domestic
product, in a sample of 12 representative countries (7 developing, 5 developed). The strongest
relationships between energy and the indicators were found in developing countries, and in
particular between both urban population and energy use per capita, and under 5 mortality
rates and energy use per capita. Indicating that energy use per capita is most strongly
influenced by urbanisation, and increased in energy use per capita is related strongly to
decreased under 5 mortality rates.
The threshold analysis in this report found a general trend in data, which showed that
countries with energy use per capita of 600kg of oil equivalent or more were able to meet the
majority of basic human needs. Therefore this is seen as the target amount of energy per
capita, which should be achieved in order to create an enabling environment for development......