This is actually my preferred measure too. I was happy to use GDP PPP figures because they tell a similar story to the energy statistics on ourworldindata.org. Asia miles ahead, China the most dominant, then the US and then EU. India looking to overtake the EU fairly rapidly if they follow China's footsteps.

Of course the per-capita numbers favour the US still. But by absolute figures, the crown goes to Asia. And per capita the Europeans can realistically be said to be behind China for policy making purposes, the trends are clear.

> energy production and consumption a lot more

which is all well and good, except when you have increases in efficiencies in energy consumption, which would show up as a drop.

Increasing efficiency often causes an increase in consumption, not less [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Except for when it doesn't. E.g. lightbulbs are now 20x more efficient than in my childhoos. But I certainly don't use >20x more light(bulbs). In fact, I'm quite sure it's 1x.

You probably have LEDs in everything though.