Refined petroleum (gasoline & diesel) sits within Energy, the sector that powers every other endeavor on this list — a category with an adjacent, sourced scale metric: World Bank: developing countries' electricity investment need rises from $280B to $630B/year by 2035 — an investment-need figure, not total global energy trade (World Bank). Refined petroleum (gasoline & diesel) is sourced to EIA's Energy Explained topic taxonomy and analysis studies, the same institutional basis behind all 17 of the category's items, rather than an editorial judgment call.
Refined petroleum (gasoline & diesel) is 1 of 17 items in Energy. See the full ranked list, or browse all 20 Human Endeavors categories.