Lao PDR Energy Statistics 2018

Abstract

The efforts to come up with the first Lao PDR National Energy Statistics were challenging as the expert team from the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM), and other related ministries and agencies pulled all their existing data on the Lao PDR and combined them with the energy consumption survey data to arrive at a meaningful national energy data. The team encountered several issues such as missing data and inappropriate data recording of both primary and sales data. The efforts to clean the data as well as fill out the missing data were daunting, but it was a successful experience as the project also built Lao PDR’s capacity in data collection and the preparation of national energy statistics.