7-8 Elasticity Ratio of Energy Consumption
Year	Growth Rate of	Growth Rate of	Growth Rate of	Elasticity Ratio	Elasticity Ratio
	Energy Consumption	Electricity	Gross Domestic	of Energy	of Electricity
	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
1989	4.2	7.3	4.1	1.02	1.78
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	9.5	8.0	0.02	1.19
2001	3.5	8.6	7.5	0.47	1.15
2002	9.9	11.6	8.3	1.19	1.40
2003	13.2	16.5	9.3	1.42	1.77
a) The data in 2003 were estimated figures.