List of countries by electricity production

This is a list of countries by annual electricity production. China is the world's largest electricity producing country, followed by the United States and India.

By 2025, Asia is projected to account for half of the world’s electricity consumption, with one-third of global electricity to be consumed in China.[1]

Total production

If possible, country links link to articles about the electricity sector.

CountryElectricity production
(GW·h/yr)
Year
 World 27,295,000[2]2021
 China 8,152,000[2]2021
 United States 4,165,000[3]2021
 India 1,702,000[2]2021
 Russia 1,110,000[2]2021
 Japan 955,000[2]2021
 Brazil 663,000[2]2021
 Canada 626,000[2]2021
 South Korea 587,000[2]2021
 Germany 557,000[2]2021
 France 530,000[2]2021
 Saudi Arabia 367,000[2]2021
 Iran 341,000[2]2021
 Mexico 337,000[2]2021
 Turkey 317,000[2]2021
 Indonesia 307,000[2]2021
 UK 289,000[2]2021
 Taiwan 287,000[2]2021
 Italy 274,000[2]2021
 Spain 259,000[2]2021
 Australia 247,000[2]2021
 Vietnam 244,000[2]2021
 South Africa 221,000[2]2021
 Egypt 202,000[2]2021
 Thailand 187,000[2]2021
 Poland 167,000[2]2021
 Sweden 165,000[2]2021
 Malaysia 165,000[2]2021
 Norway 158,000[2]2021
 Ukraine 150,000[2]2021
 Pakistan 150,000[2]2021
 Argentina 147,000[2]2021
 UAE 136,000[2]2021
 Netherlands 117,000[2]2021
 Philippines 108,000[2]2021
 Kazakhstan 104,000[2]2021
 Iraq 97,000[2]2021
 Belgium 95,000[2]2021
 Venezuela 95,000[2]2021
 Chile 85,000[2]2021
 Bangladesh 81,000[2]2021
 Colombia 81,000[2]2021
 Algeria 78,000[2]2021
 Czech Republic 77,000[2]2021
 Israel 73,000[2]2021
 Kuwait 71,000[2]2021
 Finland 70,000[2]2021
 Austria 64,000[2]2021
 Switzerland 60,000[2]2021
 Uzbekistan 59,000[2]2021
 Peru 58,000[2]2021
 Romania 55,000[2]2021
 Singapore 53,000[2]2021
 Greece 52,000[2]2021
 Qatar 48,000[2]2021
 Portugal 47,000[2]2021
 Belarus 44,000[2]2021
 New Zealand 43,000[2]2021
 Bulgaria 42,000[2]2021
 Morocco 41,000[2]2021
 Paraguay 40,000[2]2021
 Laos 40,000[2]2021
 Oman 37,000[2]2021
 Serbia 35,000[2]2021
 Hong Kong 35,000[2]2021
 Hungary 34,000[2]2021
 Ireland 34,000[2]2021
 Denmark 33,000[2]2021
 Ecuador 32,000[2]2021
 Libya 32,000[2]2021
 Bahrain 32,000[2]2021
 Nigeria 31,000[2]2021
 Slovakia 27,000[2]2021
 Azerbaijan 26,000[2]2021
 Burma 22,000[2]2021
 Jordan 22,000[2]2021
 Turkmenistan 21,000[2]2021
 Tunisia 21,000[2]2021
 Lebanon 21,000[2]2021
 Ghana 21,000[2]2021
 Tajikistan 20,000[2]2021
 Cuba 20,000[2]2021
 Mozambique 20,000[2]2021
 Iceland 19,000[2]2021
 Puerto Rico 18,000[2]2021
 Dominican Republic 18,000[2]2021
 Zambia 18,000[2]2021
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 17,000[2]2021
 Syria 17,000[2]2021
 Sudan 17,000[2]2021
 Sri Lanka 16,000[2]2021
 Uruguay 16,000[2]2021
 Angola 16,000[2]2021
 Slovenia 15,000[2]2021
 Ethiopia 15,000[2]2021
 Croatia 15,000[2]2021
 North Korea 14,000[2]2021
 Kyrgyzstan 14,000[2]2021
 Guatemala 14,000[2]2021
 Costa Rica 13,000[2]2021
 Georgia 13,000[2]2021
 Kenya 12,000[2]2021
 Honduras 12,000[2]2021
 Panama 11,000[2]2021
 Côte d'Ivoire 11,000[2]2021
 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 11,000[2]2021
 Bolivia 11,000[2]2021
 Bhutan 9,000[2]2021
 Albania 9,000[2]2021
 Trinidad and Tobago 8,700[2]2021
 Cambodia 8,700[2]2021
 Tanzania 8,200[2]2021
 Zimbabwe 8,000[2]2021
 Cameroon 8,000[2]2021
 Armenia 7,300[2]2021
 Mongolia 7,100[2]2021
 Estonia 6,700[2]2021
 Moldova 6,700[2]2021
 El Salvador 6,600[2]2021
 Kosovo 6,300[2]2021
 Nepal 6,100[2]2021
 Senegal 5,600[2]2021
 Latvia 5,500[2]2021
 North Macedonia 5,200[2]2021
 Cyprus 4,900[2]2021
 Papua New Guinea 4,900[2]2021
 Brunei 4,700[2]2021
 Nicaragua 4,600[2]2021
 Uganda 4,400[2]2021
 Jamaica 4,300[2]2021
 Congo, Republic of the 4,000[2]2021
 Lithuania 3,700[2]2021
 Yemen 3,500[2]2021
 New Caledonia 3,400[2]2021
 Mali 3,400[2]2021
 Montenegro 3,300[2]2021
 Mauritius 2,900[2]2021
 Reunion 2,841[4]2011
 Guinea 2,800[2]2021
 Gabon 2,300[2]2021
 Botswana 2,200[2]2021
 Malta 2,100[2]2021
 Bahamas 2,100[2]2021
 Madagascar 2,100[2]2021
 Suriname 2,000[2]2021
 Mauritania 1,900[2]2021
 Guam 1,800[2]2021
 Burkina Faso 1,800[2]2021
 Martinique 1,702[4]2011
 Guadeloupe 1,650[4]2011
 Namibia 1,600[2]2021
 Malawi 1,400[2]2021
 Equatorial Guinea 1,400[2]2021
 Guyana 1,200[2]2021
 Barbados 1,100[2]2021
 Fiji 1,100[2]2021
 Haiti 1,000[2]2021
 Netherlands Antilles 900[2]2021
 Aruba 900[2]2021
 Palestine 900[2]2021
 Rwanda 900[2]2021
 Luxembourg 900[2]2021
 Liberia 900[2]2021
 French Guiana 885[4]2011
 Afghanistan 800[2]2021
 U.S. Virgin Islands 700[2]2021
 French Polynesia 700[2]2021
 Cayman Islands 700[2]2021
 Maldives 700[2]2021
 Eswatini 700[2]2021
 Macau 600[2]2021
 Bermuda 600[2]2021
 Greenland 600[2]2021
 South Sudan 600[2]2021
 Belize 600[2]2021
 Togo 600[2]2021
 Lesotho 500[2]2021
 Timor-Leste 500[2]2021
 Seychelles 500[2]2021
 Cape Verde 500[2]2021
 Niger 500[2]2021
 Eritrea 500[2]2021
 U.S. Pacific Islands 500[2]2021
 Djibouti 406[5]2016
 Saint Lucia 400[2]2021
 Somalia 400[2]2021
 Antigua and Barbuda 400[2]2021
 Faroe Islands 400[2]2021
 Burundi 400[2]2021
 Gambia 300[2]2021
 Turks and Caicos Islands 300[2]2021
 Chad 300[2]2021
 Benin 200[2]2021
 Sierra Leone 200[2]2021
 Gibraltar 200[2]2021
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 200[2]2021
 Grenada 200[2]2021
 Central African Republic 200[2]2021
 American Samoa 200[2]2021
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 200[2]2021
 Samoa 200[2]2021
 Dominica 200[2]2021
 Micronesia 1922002
 British Virgin Islands 100[2]2021
 Solomon Islands 100[2]2021
 Sao Tome and Principe 100[2]2021
 Comoros 100[2]2021
 Western Sahara 852005
 Tonga 52[5]2016
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 46[5]2016
 Guinea-Bissau 39[5]2016
 Kiribati 29[5]2016
 Montserrat 24[5]2016
 Falkland Islands 19[5]2016
 Saint Helena 7[5]2016
 Niue 3[5]2016

Production by source

Source: World Development Indicators: Electricity production, sources, and access (2011)
Country Electricity
production
(TWh)
Fossil Renewable Nuclear
Coal Natural gas Oil Sub-total
fossil
Hydro Other
ren.
Sub-total
renewable
 Argentina 129.62.5%51.4%15.1%69.0%24.4%1.7%26.1%4.9%
 Australia 252.668.6%19.7%1.6%89.9%6.6%3.5%10.1%0.0%
 Austria 62.211.8%19.9%1.6%33.3%55.0%10.7%65.7%0.0%
 Brazil 588.04.7%13.7%5.0%23.4%61.8%14.8%76.4%2.6%
 Canada 636.912.0%9.8%1.0%22.8%59.0%3.3%62.3%14.7%
 Chile 65.729.9%20.9%9.7%60.5%32.0%7.6%39.6%0.0%
 China 8,310.0 (2021)67.4% ?.?%0.2%68.0%16.0%11.7%27.7%4.9%
 Hong Kong 39.071.2%28.5%0.3%100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
 Denmark 35.239.7%16.5%1.3%57.5%0.0%40.2%40.2%0.0%
 Egypt 156.60.0%74.7%15.8%90.5%8.3%1.3%9.6%0.0%
 Finland 73.514.0%12.9%0.6%27.5%16.9%15.9%32.8%31.6%
 France 556.93.1%4.8%0.6%8.5%8.0%3.6%11.6%79.4%
 Germany 602.445.1%13.9%1.1%60.1%2.9%17.6%20.5%17.9%
 Iceland 17.20.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%72.7%27.3%100.0%0.0%
 India 1,59851.7%6.3%1.8%59.8%13.1%25.4%38.5%1.7%
 Indonesia 182.444.4%20.3%23.2%88.0%6.8%5.2%12.0%0.0%
 Iran 239.70.2%66.8%27.8%94.8%5.0%0.1%5.1%0.1%
 Iraq 54.20.0%79.5%12.9%92.4%7.6%0.0%7.6%0.0%
 Israel 59.659.0%33.1%7.3%99.6%0.0%0.4%0.4%0.0%
 Italy 300.616.7%48.1%6.6%71.4%15.2%12.4%27.6%0.0%
 Japan 1,042.727.0%35.9%10.1%73.0%8.0%4.2%12.2%9.8%
 South Korea 520.143.2%22.3%3.2%68.7%0.9%0.6%1.5%29.8%
 Kuwait 57.50.0%38%62%100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
 Libya 27.60.0%56.3%43.7%100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
 Malawi [6](2021) 3.8 0.0% 0.0% 0.0 0.0% 85.8% 14.2% 100.0% 0.0%
 Malaysia 130.140.7%44.7%7.7%93.1%5.9%1.0%6.9%0.0%
 Mexico 295.811.5%52.8%16.4%80.7%12.3%3.6%15.9%3.4%
 Mongolia 4.895.1%0.0%4.9%100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
 Netherlands 113.021.9%60.6%1.3%83.3%0.1%10.9%11.0%3.7%
 New Zealand 44.54.9%19.1%0.0%24.0%56.4%19.5%76.0%0.0%
 Nigeria 27.00.0%63.3%15.8%79.1%20.9%0.0%20.9%0.0%
 Norway 126.90.1%3.2%0.0%3.3%95.2%1.3%96.7%0.0%
 Pakistan 95.30.1%29%35.4%64.6%29.9%0.0%29.9%5.5%
 Panama 7.96.5%0.0%41.1%47.6%52.2%0.3%52.4%0.0%
 Peru[7] 58.80,1%37.1%0.3%37.5%57.8%4.7%62.5%0.0%
 Philippines 69.236.6%29.8%4.9%71.4%14.0%14.6%28.6%0.0%
 Poland 163.186.7%3.6%1.5%92.0%1.4%6.6%8.0%0.0%
 Russia 1,053.015.5%49.3%2.6%67.4%15.7%0.1%15.8%16.4%
 Saudi Arabia 250.10.0%52.8%47.2%100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
 Singapore 46.00.0%78%18.4%97.7%0.0%2.3%2.3%0.0%
 South Africa 259.693.8%0.0%0.1%93.8%0.8%0.2%1.0%5.2%
 Spain 289.015.5%29.2%5.1%50.2%10.6%19.2%29.8%20.0%
 Sri Lanka 8.738.3%1.1%16.8%56.1%39.4%4.5%43.9%0.0%
 Sudan 8.60.0%0.0%24.8%24.8%75.2%0.0%75.2%0.0%
 Sweden 150.30.9%1.0%0.5%2.4%44.2%11.7%55.9%40.2%
 Syria 41.10.0%52.4%39.6%92.0%8.0%0.0%8.0%0.0%
 Thailand 156.022.3%68.3%1.3%92.0%5.2%2.8%8.0%0.0%
 Turkey 252.030.2%47.9%0.9%79.0%16.1%4.9%21.0%0.0%
 Ukraine 194.938.2%9.5%0.3%48.0%5.6%0.1%5.7%46.3%
 United Arab Emirates 99.10.0%98.3%1.7%100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
 United Kingdom 364.90%38%1.0%39.0%1.6%40.3%41.9%19.1%
 United States 4,326.643.3%24.2%0.9%68.6%7.4%4.8%12.2%19.2%
 Venezuela 122.10.0%17.2%14.3%31.5%68.5%0.0%68.5%0.0%
 Dominican Republic 15.89113.5%23.2%51.8%88.4%9.4%2.1%11.6%0.0%
 Vietnam 99.221.1%43.9%4.8%69.8%30.1%0.1%30.2%0.0%
 World 22,158.541.5%22.1%3.9%67.5%16.1%4.2%20.3%12.2%

Note: The percentage are subjected to round-off errors.

See also

References

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