Thank you for the source.

Here's one flag:

"Notes on our processing step for this indicator

We rely on Ember as the primary source of electricity data. While the Energy Institute (EI) provides primary energy (not just electricity) consumption data and it provides a longer time-series (dating back to 1965) than Ember (which only dates back to 1990), EI does not provide data for all countries or for all sources of electricity (for example, only Ember provides data on electricity from bioenergy). So, where data from Ember is available for a given country and year, we rely on it as the primary source. We then supplement this with data from EI where data from Ember is not available."

Like climate change the data is no more than 60 years old!

The UN is another flag.

I don't trust it. The United States has many different electric companies and co-ops. I find it hard to believe that even our department of energy fully understands the grid that is not a homogenous system.

I don't disagree that GDP is garbage but the power statistics are not a reflection of productivity. We are using power every day, we don't have black outs. We do have more LED lights. We also have a lot of traffic cameras, signs and other things powered by batteries and solar.

We have solar panels on people's homes, more efficient televisions, computers, light bulbs, cars, And still when you go by military bases at night powered by independent trash power and steam plants the lights are on in every building.

I say it's no good, nonsense.