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  "description": "The electricity the world used each year since 2000, expressed as average power in terawatts: the year's terawatt-hours spread evenly over its hours. From Ember's yearly electricity data.",
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    "status": "preliminary",
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  "notes": ["Partly Ember's estimate: the file has no 2023 demand for 1 of the 209 countries and economies with demand for an earlier year, and Ember's methodology says it estimates a country's missing years from its historical trends of demand and generation by source.", "Partly Ember's estimate: the file has no 2024 demand for 15 of the 209 countries and economies with demand for an earlier year, and Ember's methodology says it estimates a country's missing years from its historical trends of demand and generation by source.", "Partly Ember's estimate: the file has no 2025 demand for 116 of the 209 countries and economies with demand for an earlier year, and Ember's methodology says it estimates a country's missing years from its historical trends of demand and generation by source."],
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