US per capita electricity use may have dropped, but the chart FTA shows that the US total energy increase in demand constitutes around one third of the global i

US per capita electricity use may have dropped, but the chart FTA shows that the US total energy increase in demand constitutes around one third of the global increase in total energy demand. So to characterize this as due to population increase and economic development seems to let the US off the hook for what is presumably a per capita increase far more than any other country in the world.