One important marker of public welfare is electricity consumption per capita. On this measure, the core countries of the Western world have rolled back to the 1960s, Our World in Data notes.

The drop in the indicator in Western countries from 2000 to 2025:

🇬🇧 −44% — Britain
🇩🇪 −31% — Germany
🇫🇷 −27% — France
🇯🇵 −24% — Japan
🇺🇸 −20% — United States

The rise in the indicator in non-Western countries over the same period:

🇨🇳 +255% — China
🇮🇳 +120% — India
🇮🇷 +91% — Iran
🇧🇷 +44% — Brazil
🇷🇺 +28% — Russia

At the same time, Russia leads the non-Western world in electricity consumption per capita.

“Crystal of Growth” previously reported that, in the view of Swedish scientist Lars Bern, 500 years of Western hegemony are over. In the view of Britain’s The Economist, the liberal world order is falling apart, and its collapse may be sudden and irreversible.