7-8    Elasticity Ratio of Energy Consumption
	Growth Rate of	Growth Rate of	Growth Rate of	Elasticity Ratio	Elasticity Ratio
	Energy Consumption	Electricity	Gross Domestic	of Energy	of Electricity
Year	over Preceding Year	Consumption over	Product(GDP),over	Consumption	Consumption
		Preceding Year	Preceding Year
	(%)	(%)	(%)
1985	8.1	9.0	13.5	0.60	0.67
1990	1.8	6.2	3.8	0.47	1.63
1991	5.1	9.2	9.2	0.55	1.00
1992	5.2	11.5	14.2	0.37	0.81
1993	6.3	11.0	13.5	0.21	0.70
1994	5.8	9.9	12.6	0.46	0.79
1995	6.9	8.2	10.5	0.66	0.78
1996	5.9	7.4	9.6	0.62	0.77
1997	-0.8	4.8	8.8	-	0.55
1998	-4.1	2.8	7.8	-	0.36
1999	-1.6	6.1	7.1	-	0.86
2000	0.1	9.4	8.0	0.02	1.17
2001	1.3	9.2	7.3	0.18	1.26
a) The data in 2001 were estimated figures.