About GlobalPetrolPrices.com

Our data

We publish wide-ranging, reliable, and up-to-date information on retail energy prices around the world including motor fuel prices, electricity prices, and natural gas prices. For fuel prices, we track the national average prices in 150 countries and over 250 cities globally. The series are updated weekly. Our data base consists of over 100,000 data points spanning more than 10 years.

For electricity prices, we track the national averages in about 150 countries. For each country, we calculate several data points for different levels of electricity consumption as prices per kWh vary with consumption. We have updated these series quarterly since 2018.

For natural gas prices, we track about 50 countries with several data points for different levels of consumption. These series started in 2019.

You can read about our data collection sources and methods.

To understand fuel price differences across countries and dynamics over time, you can also read our global fuel price primer.

Clients

Our products include providing energy price data, fuel price analysis, and fuel price forecasts. Clients include:

- Large multinationals that need to track and forecast their energy cost.

- Investment and consulting companies in the energy, transport, and logistics sectors.

- Government agencies that use the data in their regulatory decisions on energy prices.

- Individual analysts and academics.

Examples of data use by international organizations

Our data are used by:

- The International Monetary Fund to estimate fossil fuel subsidies globally.

- The International Energy Agency to estimate oil demand for its monthly Oil Market Report.

- The World Economic Forum to rank countries in terms of competitiveness of their tourism sectors.

Team

Our team includes several analysts with graduate degrees in economics or finance and is headed by Neven Valev (Google Scholar, LinkedIn, personal site), a Ph.D. economist with over 15 years experience as professor of economics. Neven has published over 30 academic papers on international economics as well as numerous practitioner reports and media articles. Our team works as a research institute with the highest possible level of rigor adopted from academic research.

We also run The Global Economy that provides economic and business data for over 200 countries. We have been online since 2012.