This is a list of countries by electric energy consumption. China is the largest producer and consumer of electricity, representing 55% of consumption in Asia and 31% of the world in 2023.[1]
Consumption by country
editData in this table are from Ember and are for 2023 unless otherwise specified.[1] It includes some dependent territories. Total consumption figures are in terawatt-hours (TWh) while per capita (i.e., per person) figures are in megawatt-hours (MWh).
Links for each location go to the relevant electricity market page, when available.
| Location | Consumption (TWh per annum) |
Per capita (MWh per annum) |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| World | 29,664.60 | 3.67 | 2023 |
 China |
9,443.07 | 6.64 | 2023 |
 United States |
4,272.91 | 12.44 | 2023 |
 India |
1,956.55 | 1.36 | 2023 |
 Russia |
1,162.44 | 7.99 | 2023 |
 Japan |
1,013.26 | 8.15 | 2023 |
 Brazil |
725.10 | 3.43 | 2023 |
 South Korea |
617.92 | 11.94 | 2023 |
 Canada |
605.52 | 15.41 | 2023 |
 Germany |
505.76 | 5.98 | 2023 |
 France |
467.81 | 7.04 | 2023 |
 Saudi Arabia |
422.83 | 12.71 | 2023 |
 Iran |
380.28 | 4.20 | 2023 |
 Mexico |
357.75 | 2.76 | 2023 |
 Indonesia |
351.49 | 1.25 | 2023 |
 Turkey |
323.80 | 3.71 | 2023 |
 Italy |
312.72 | 5.26 | 2023 |
 United Kingdom |
309.22 | 4.50 | 2023 |
 Taiwan |
282.14 | 12.10 | 2023 |
 Vietnam |
278.61 | 2.78 | 2023 |
 Australia |
273.11 | 10.33 | 2023 |
 Spain |
265.00 | 5.53 | 2023 |
 South Africa |
231.79 | 3.67 | 2023 |
 Thailand |
224.04 | 3.13 | 2023 |
 Egypt |
218.54 | 1.91 | 2023 |
 Malaysia |
186.66 | 5.31 | 2023 |
 Pakistan |
171.18 | 0.69 | 2023 |
 Poland |
168.14 | 4.34 | 2023 |
 United Arab Emirates |
164.92 | 15.50 | 2023 |
 Argentina |
157.79 | 3.47 | 2023 |
 Iraq |
153.42 | 3.40 | 2023 |
 Sweden |
137.48 | 13.03 | 2023 |
 Norway |
135.68 | 24.58 | 2023 |
 Bangladesh |
115.57 | 0.67 | 2023 |
 Kazakhstan |
114.42 | 5.63 | 2023 |
 Netherlands |
113.85 | 6.29 | 2023 |
 Ukraine |
113.58 | 2.77 | 2022 |
 Philippines |
111.52 | 0.97 | 2023 |
 Algeria |
94.02 | 2.04 | 2023 |
 Colombia |
89.53 | 1.71 | 2023 |
 Chile |
87.69 | 4.46 | 2023 |
 Kuwait |
85.57 | 17.68 | 2023 |
 Finland |
82.56 | 14.74 | 2023 |
 Belgium |
82.36 | 7.03 | 2023 |
 Venezuela |
82.34 | 2.91 | 2023 |
 Uzbekistan |
79.18 | 2.22 | 2023 |
 Austria |
70.42 | 7.71 | 2023 |
 Israel |
67.48 | 7.29 | 2023 |
 Czech Republic |
66.64 | 6.17 | 2023 |
 Switzerland |
62.74 | 7.07 | 2023 |
 Peru |
59.95 | 1.77 | 2023 |
 Singapore |
57.40 | 9.92 | 2023 |
 Portugal |
56.45 | 5.41 | 2023 |
 Qatar |
55.14 | 18.51 | 2023 |
 Romania |
53.90 | 2.82 | 2023 |
 Greece |
53.73 | 5.25 | 2023 |
 Hong Kong |
49.23 | 6.62 | 2023 |
 Hungary |
46.62 | 4.81 | 2023 |
 Oman |
45.01 | 8.91 | 2023 |
 Morocco |
44.31 | 1.18 | 2023 |
 New Zealand |
43.86 | 8.48 | 2023 |
 Belarus |
43.03 | 4.72 | 2023 |
 Nigeria |
40.11 | 0.18 | 2023 |
 Denmark |
36.74 | 6.18 | 2023 |
 Bulgaria |
36.72 | 5.40 | 2023 |
 Bahrain |
36.18 | 23.05 | 2023 |
 Serbia |
36.13 | 5.33 | 2023 |
 Libya |
35.91 | 4.92 | 2023 |
 Ireland |
34.51 | 6.64 | 2023 |
 Ecuador |
34.42 | 1.91 | 2023 |
 North Korea |
26.55 | 1.01 | 2023 |
 Slovakia |
26.11 | 4.73 | 2023 |
 Azerbaijan |
26.06 | 2.53 | 2023 |
 Myanmar |
25.49 | 0.47 | 2023 |
 Turkmenistan |
24.79 | 3.37 | 2023 |
 Dominican Republic |
24.56 | 2.17 | 2023 |
 Tunisia |
23.79 | 1.95 | 2023 |
 Jordan |
22.79 | 1.99 | 2023 |
 Ghana |
22.34 | 0.66 | 2023 |
 Iceland |
20.12 | 51.92 | 2023 |
 Paraguay |
20.04 | 2.93 | 2023 |
 Puerto Rico |
19.90 | 6.14 | 2023 |
 Syria |
19.72 | 0.84 | 2023 |
 Tajikistan |
19.21 | 1.85 | 2023 |
 Croatia |
18.98 | 4.87 | 2023 |
 Cambodia |
18.87 | 1.08 | 2023 |
 Angola |
17.94 | 0.49 | 2023 |
 Sudan |
17.63 | 0.35 | 2023 |
 DR Congo |
17.31 | 0.16 | 2023 |
 Kyrgyzstan |
17.23 | 2.44 | 2023 |
 Zambia |
16.64 | 0.80 | 2023 |
 Ethiopia |
16.50 | 0.13 | 2023 |
 Mozambique |
16.36 | 0.49 | 2023 |
 Cuba |
15.29 | 1.39 | 2023 |
 Laos |
15.26 | 1.99 | 2023 |
 Slovenia |
14.04 | 6.63 | 2023 |
 Guatemala |
13.93 | 0.77 | 2023 |
 Georgia |
13.72 | 3.60 | 2023 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
13.54 | 4.25 | 2023 |
 Kenya |
13.07 | 0.24 | 2023 |
 Panama |
12.70 | 2.85 | 2023 |
 Lithuania |
12.22 | 4.28 | 2023 |
 Bhutan |
11.99 | 15.25 | 2023 |
 Bolivia |
11.94 | 0.98 | 2023 |
 Honduras |
11.92 | 1.12 | 2023 |
 Nepal |
11.45 | 0.39 | 2023 |
 Tanzania |
11.14 | 0.17 | 2023 |
 Costa Rica |
10.99 | 2.15 | 2023 |
 Uruguay |
10.96 | 3.24 | 2023 |
 Ivory Coast |
10.38 | 0.33 | 2023 |
 Zimbabwe |
10.21 | 0.63 | 2023 |
 Mongolia |
10.11 | 2.95 | 2023 |
 Trinidad and Tobago |
9.50 | 6.32 | 2023 |
 Estonia |
9.12 | 6.67 | 2023 |
 Senegal |
8.54 | 0.47 | 2023 |
 Cameroon |
8.39 | 0.30 | 2023 |
 Albania |
8.09 | 2.88 | 2023 |
 Palestine |
7.95 | 1.47 | 2023 |
 Kosovo |
7.67 | 4.51 | 2023 |
 Armenia |
7.54 | 2.56 | 2023 |
 North Macedonia |
7.23 | 3.95 | 2023 |
 Afghanistan |
7.19 | 0.17 | 2023 |
 Latvia |
7.17 | 3.81 | 2023 |
 El Salvador |
7.11 | 1.13 | 2023 |
 Luxembourg |
6.59 | 9.91 | 2023 |
 Moldova |
6.22 | 2.03 | 2023 |
 Macau |
5.82 | 8.15 | 2023 |
 Brunei |
5.59 | 12.18 | 2023 |
 Nicaragua |
5.50 | 0.81 | 2023 |
 Uganda |
5.37 | 0.11 | 2023 |
 Cyprus |
5.32 | 3.96 | 2023 |
 Congo |
5.17 | 0.84 | 2023 |
 Papua New Guinea |
4.73 | 0.46 | 2023 |
 Namibia |
4.64 | 1.57 | 2023 |
 Mali |
4.58 | 0.19 | 2023 |
 Lebanon |
4.52 | 0.78 | 2023 |
 Botswana |
4.51 | 1.82 | 2023 |
 Jamaica |
4.49 | 1.58 | 2023 |
 Guinea |
4.05 | 0.28 | 2023 |
 Gabon |
3.77 | 1.52 | 2023 |
| Réunion |
3.37 | 3.87 | 2022 |
 Burkina Faso |
3.31 | 0.14 | 2023 |
 Mauritius |
3.27 | 2.57 | 2023 |
 Montenegro |
3.22 | 5.08 | 2023 |
 New Caledonia |
3.09 | 10.66 | 2023 |
 Yemen |
3.07 | 0.08 | 2023 |
 Malta |
2.97 | 5.57 | 2023 |
 Madagascar |
2.64 | 0.09 | 2023 |
 Suriname |
2.14 | 3.40 | 2023 |
 Bahamas |
2.05 | 5.13 | 2023 |
 Mauritania |
2.02 | 0.40 | 2023 |
 Togo |
2.02 | 0.22 | 2023 |
 Niger |
2.01 | 0.08 | 2023 |
 Benin |
1.84 | 0.13 | 2023 |
 Malawi |
1.81 | 0.09 | 2023 |
 Guam |
1.80 | 10.81 | 2023 |
| Guadeloupe |
1.64 | 4.26 | 2022 |
 Equatorial Guinea |
1.57 | 0.85 | 2023 |
 Eswatini |
1.49 | 1.21 | 2023 |
 Martinique |
1.49 | 4.26 | 2022 |
 Guyana |
1.34 | 1.62 | 2023 |
 Fiji |
1.15 | 1.24 | 2023 |
 Barbados |
1.10 | 3.90 | 2023 |
 Rwanda |
1.08 | 0.08 | 2023 |
 Haiti |
1.01 | 0.09 | 2023 |
 Aruba |
1.00 | 9.27 | 2023 |
| French Guiana |
0.98 | 3.29 | 2022 |
 Lesotho |
0.93 | 0.40 | 2023 |
 Maldives |
0.85 | 1.62 | 2023 |
 Belize |
0.73 | 1.78 | 2023 |
 Djibouti |
0.71 | 0.62 | 2023 |
 French Polynesia |
0.71 | 2.53 | 2023 |
 Cayman Islands |
0.70 | 9.58 | 2023 |
 U.S. Virgin Islands |
0.67 | 7.82 | 2023 |
 Bermuda |
0.64 | 9.89 | 2023 |
 Seychelles |
0.63 | 4.92 | 2023 |
 South Sudan |
0.59 | 0.05 | 2023 |
 Greenland |
0.54 | 9.66 | 2023 |
 Gambia |
0.51 | 0.19 | 2023 |
 Timor-Leste |
0.51 | 0.37 | 2023 |
 Cape Verde |
0.50 | 0.96 | 2023 |
 Burundi |
0.49 | 0.04 | 2023 |
 Faroe Islands |
0.48 | 8.77 | 2023 |
 Eritrea |
0.44 | 0.13 | 2023 |
 Somalia |
0.42 | 0.02 | 2023 |
 Saint Lucia |
0.40 | 2.23 | 2023 |
 Chad |
0.39 | 0.02 | 2023 |
 Liberia |
0.39 | 0.07 | 2023 |
 Antigua and Barbuda |
0.36 | 3.86 | 2023 |
 Turks and Caicos Islands |
0.26 | 5.63 | 2023 |
 Grenada |
0.24 | 2.05 | 2023 |
 Gibraltar |
0.22 | 5.72 | 2023 |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis |
0.22 | 4.71 | 2023 |
 Sierra Leone |
0.21 | 0.03 | 2023 |
 American Samoa |
0.17 | 3.58 | 2023 |
 British Virgin Islands |
0.17 | 4.36 | 2023 |
 Dominica |
0.15 | 2.26 | 2023 |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
0.15 | 1.48 | 2023 |
 Samoa |
0.15 | 0.69 | 2023 |
 Central African Republic |
0.14 | 0.03 | 2023 |
 Comoros |
0.14 | 0.17 | 2023 |
 Solomon Islands |
0.11 | 0.14 | 2023 |
 São Tomé and Príncipe |
0.09 | 0.39 | 2023 |
 Guinea-Bissau |
0.08 | 0.04 | 2023 |
 Vanuatu |
0.08 | 0.25 | 2023 |
 Tonga |
0.07 | 0.67 | 2023 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
0.05 | 8.80 | 2023 |
 Cook Islands |
0.04 | 2.81 | 2023 |
 Kiribati |
0.04 | 0.30 | 2023 |
 Nauru |
0.04 | 3.37 | 2023 |
 Falkland Islands |
0.01 | 2.88 | 2023 |
 Montserrat |
0.01 | 2.26 | 2023 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha |
0.01 | 1.89 | 2023 |
Consumption by continent
edit| Continent | TWh |
|---|---|
| Africa | 936.74 |
| Asia | 17093.41 |
| Europe | 4509.96 |
| North America | 5381.26 |
| Oceania | 329.15 |
| South America | 1284.25 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Yearly Electricity Data". ember-energy.org. Retrieved 10 Feb 2025.