List of countries by electricity production

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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]

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.

Total production[edit]

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Country Electricity 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 192 2002
 British Virgin Islands 100 [2]2021
 Solomon Islands 100 [2]2021
 Sao Tome and Principe 100 [2]2021
 Comoros 100 [2]2021
 Western Sahara 85 2005
 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[edit]

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 129.6 2.5% 51.4% 15.1% 69.0% 24.4% 1.7% 26.1% 4.9%
 Australia 252.6 68.6% 19.7% 1.6% 89.9% 6.6% 3.5% 10.1% 0.0%
 Austria 62.2 11.8% 19.9% 1.6% 33.3% 55.0% 10.7% 65.7% 0.0%
 Brazil 588.0 4.7% 13.7% 5.0% 23.4% 61.8% 14.8% 76.4% 2.6%
 Canada 636.9 12.0% 9.8% 1.0% 22.8% 59.0% 3.3% 62.3% 14.7%
 Chile 65.7 29.9% 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 39.0 71.2% 28.5% 0.3% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
 Denmark 35.2 39.7% 16.5% 1.3% 57.5% 0.0% 40.2% 40.2% 0.0%
 Egypt 156.6 0.0% 74.7% 15.8% 90.5% 8.3% 1.3% 9.6% 0.0%
 Finland 73.5 14.0% 12.9% 0.6% 27.5% 16.9% 15.9% 32.8% 31.6%
 France 556.9 3.1% 4.8% 0.6% 8.5% 8.0% 3.6% 11.6% 79.4%
 Germany 602.4 45.1% 13.9% 1.1% 60.1% 2.9% 17.6% 20.5% 17.9%
 Iceland 17.2 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 72.7% 27.3% 100.0% 0.0%
 India 1,598 51.7% 6.3% 1.8% 59.8% 13.1% 25.4% 38.5% 1.7%
 Indonesia 182.4 44.4% 20.3% 23.2% 88.0% 6.8% 5.2% 12.0% 0.0%
 Iran 239.7 0.2% 66.8% 27.8% 94.8% 5.0% 0.1% 5.1% 0.1%
 Iraq 54.2 0.0% 79.5% 12.9% 92.4% 7.6% 0.0% 7.6% 0.0%
 Israel 59.6 59.0% 33.1% 7.3% 99.6% 0.0% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0%
 Italy 300.6 16.7% 48.1% 6.6% 71.4% 15.2% 12.4% 27.6% 0.0%
 Japan 1,042.7 27.0% 35.9% 10.1% 73.0% 8.0% 4.2% 12.2% 9.8%
 South Korea 520.1 43.2% 22.3% 3.2% 68.7% 0.9% 0.6% 1.5% 29.8%
 Kuwait 57.5 0.0% 38% 62% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
 Libya 27.6 0.0% 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 130.1 40.7% 44.7% 7.7% 93.1% 5.9% 1.0% 6.9% 0.0%
 Mexico 295.8 11.5% 52.8% 16.4% 80.7% 12.3% 3.6% 15.9% 3.4%
 Mongolia 4.8 95.1% 0.0% 4.9% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
 Netherlands 113.0 21.9% 60.6% 1.3% 83.3% 0.1% 10.9% 11.0% 3.7%
 New Zealand 44.5 4.9% 19.1% 0.0% 24.0% 56.4% 19.5% 76.0% 0.0%
 Nigeria 27.0 0.0% 63.3% 15.8% 79.1% 20.9% 0.0% 20.9% 0.0%
 Norway 126.9 0.1% 3.2% 0.0% 3.3% 95.2% 1.3% 96.7% 0.0%
 Pakistan 95.3 0.1% 29% 35.4% 64.6% 29.9% 0.0% 29.9% 5.5%
 Panama 7.9 6.5% 0.0% 41.1% 47.6% 52.2% 0.3% 52.4% 0.0%
 Peru[7] 58.8 0,1% 37.1% 0.3% 37.5% 57.8% 4.7% 62.5% 0.0%
 Philippines 69.2 36.6% 29.8% 4.9% 71.4% 14.0% 14.6% 28.6% 0.0%
 Poland 163.1 86.7% 3.6% 1.5% 92.0% 1.4% 6.6% 8.0% 0.0%
 Russia 1,053.0 15.5% 49.3% 2.6% 67.4% 15.7% 0.1% 15.8% 16.4%
 Saudi Arabia 250.1 0.0% 52.8% 47.2% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
 Singapore 46.0 0.0% 78% 18.4% 97.7% 0.0% 2.3% 2.3% 0.0%
 South Africa 259.6 93.8% 0.0% 0.1% 93.8% 0.8% 0.2% 1.0% 5.2%
 Spain 289.0 15.5% 29.2% 5.1% 50.2% 10.6% 19.2% 29.8% 20.0%
 Sri Lanka 8.7 38.3% 1.1% 16.8% 56.1% 39.4% 4.5% 43.9% 0.0%
 Sudan 8.6 0.0% 0.0% 24.8% 24.8% 75.2% 0.0% 75.2% 0.0%
 Sweden 150.3 0.9% 1.0% 0.5% 2.4% 44.2% 11.7% 55.9% 40.2%
 Syria 41.1 0.0% 52.4% 39.6% 92.0% 8.0% 0.0% 8.0% 0.0%
 Thailand 156.0 22.3% 68.3% 1.3% 92.0% 5.2% 2.8% 8.0% 0.0%
 Turkey 252.0 30.2% 47.9% 0.9% 79.0% 16.1% 4.9% 21.0% 0.0%
 Ukraine 194.9 38.2% 9.5% 0.3% 48.0% 5.6% 0.1% 5.7% 46.3%
 United Arab Emirates 99.1 0.0% 98.3% 1.7% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
 United Kingdom 364.9 0% 38% 1.0% 39.0% 1.6% 40.3% 41.9% 19.1%
 United States 4,326.6 43.3% 24.2% 0.9% 68.6% 7.4% 4.8% 12.2% 19.2%
 Venezuela 122.1 0.0% 17.2% 14.3% 31.5% 68.5% 0.0% 68.5% 0.0%
 Dominican Republic 15.891 13.5% 23.2% 51.8% 88.4% 9.4% 2.1% 11.6% 0.0%
 Vietnam 99.2 21.1% 43.9% 4.8% 69.8% 30.1% 0.1% 30.2% 0.0%
 World 22,158.5 41.5% 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[edit]

References[edit]

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