Countries by electricity consumption, 2024

China had the highest electricity consumption of 212 countries in 2024, at 9,793.7 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 10.2 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest9,793.7China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median10.2212 countries

Top 40 countries, 2024

TWh. Source: EIA, International Energy Statistics: electricity net consumption, billion kilowatt hours (series INTL.2-2-BKWH.A) via Data Commons. Retrieved 2026-10-11.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2024 TWh	Change on 2023
1	China	9,793.7	+7.1%
2	United States	4,194.3	+2.7%
3	India	1,757.6	+4.8%
4	Russia	1,045.2	-0%
5	Japan	858.6	-6.3%
6	Brazil	636.2	+4.4%
7	Canada	573.2	+1.6%
8	South Korea	557.8	-1.1%
9	Germany	490.4	+2.8%
10	France	409.7	-0.8%
11	Saudi Arabia	406	+0.7%
12	Indonesia	376.2	+5.6%
13	Iran	347.3	+3.3%
14	Mexico	343	+5.7%
15	Türkiye	303.1	+3.1%
16	Vietnam	300.9	+6.4%
17	Italy	290.3	+1.2%
18	Taiwan	278	+2.7%
19	United Kingdom	274.6	+5%
20	Australia	256.9	+0.4%
21	Spain	233.1	+2.4%
22	Thailand	223.4	+5.3%
23	South Africa	216.8	+4.5%
24	Malaysia	180.8	+0.7%
25	Egypt	173.9	+4.5%
26	United Arab Emirates	161.2	+5.4%
27	Poland	157.8	-0.9%
28	Norway	128.8	+1.1%
29	Pakistan	128.2	+6.3%
30	Sweden	126.7	+0.6%
31	Argentina	123.2	+5.1%
32	Kazakhstan	113.2	+7%
33	Philippines	111.6	+5.3%
34	Netherlands	110.3	+2.8%
35	Colombia	107	+35.8%
36	Bangladesh	103.7	+0.8%
37	Ukraine	87.3	-6%
38	Algeria	85	+1%
39	Kuwait	84.5	+2.8%
40	Chile	83.2	-1.7%
41	Finland	79.5	+2.8%
42	Belgium	79	+2%
43	Uzbekistan	75.1	+2.7%
44	Iraq	67.1	-6.7%
45	Israel	67.1	+3%
46	Czechia	63.9	+0.4%
47	Venezuela	63.4	+37.4%
48	Austria	61.6	-1.2%
49	Singapore	59.1	+2.4%
50	Switzerland	56.4	-1.4%
51	Qatar	53.4	+0.4%
52	Peru	52.6	-3%
53	Portugal	51.2	+1.7%
54	Greece	47.9	-4.3%
55	Romania	47	+5.4%
56	Hong Kong	45.1	-1.1%
57	Hungary	45	+5.4%
58	Oman	43.2	+5%
59	Belarus	42.1	+9.9%
60	New Zealand	41	+3.4%
61	Bahrain	37.4	+1.6%
62	Morocco	36.9	+1.2%
63	Denmark	36.1	+2.9%
64	Bulgaria	35.4	+2.4%
65	Serbia	33.7	+3.2%
66	Ireland	33.4	+7.6%
67	Nigeria	29.9	-8.3%
68	Ecuador	27.9	-11.4%
69	Libya	27.8	+4.2%
70	Slovakia	24.5	+7.7%
71	Azerbaijan	24.5	+2.5%
72	North Korea	23.1	+2.3%
73	Jordan	21.1	-1.2%
74	Dominican Republic	21	-5.4%
75	Turkmenistan	20.8	+2.4%
76	Myanmar	20.2	+2.1%
77	Tunisia	19.9	+3.9%
78	Cambodia	19.3	+19.1%
79	Ghana	19.1	+0.3%
80	Syria	18.8	-6.6%
81	Puerto Rico	18.8	+0.5%
82	Iceland	18.5	-4.1%
83	Croatia	17.4	+7.4%
84	Kyrgyzstan	16.3	+11.7%
85	Democratic Republic of the Congo	16.1	+1.8%
86	Cuba	15.8	-3.6%
87	Paraguay	15.7	+81.1%
88	Tajikistan	15.6	+5.9%
89	Zambia	15.5	+12.2%
90	Sri Lanka	15.2	-0.7%
91	Guatemala	14.5	+2.8%
92	Angola	13.8	-1.2%
93	Slovenia	13.5	+5.1%
94	Mozambique	13.2	+0.9%
95	Uruguay	13.2	+2.9%
96	Georgia	13	+3.2%
97	Bolivia	12.4	+8.4%
98	Laos	12.4	-15.2%
99	Panama	12.4	+3%
100	Bhutan	12.4	+3.9%
101	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12.1	+13.5%
102	Sudan	11.6	+0.8%
103	Kenya	11.4	+7.9%
104	Ethiopia	10.9	-7.9%
105	Lithuania	10.3	-1.3%
106	Mongolia	10.3	+7.6%
107	Zimbabwe	10.2	+0.6%
108	Costa Rica	10.1	-8.9%
109	Nepal	9.2	+2%
110	Trinidad and Tobago	9.1	+1.4%
111	Honduras	8.6	-4.4%
112	Côte d’Ivoire	8.2	-5.3%
113	Albania	7.6	+11.6%
114	Tanzania	7.6	-13.4%
115	Senegal	7.2	-7.7%
116	Estonia	7.1	-11.6%
117	Armenia	7	+0.6%
118	Palestine	6.9	-1%
119	Latvia	6.6	-2.9%
120	Macao	6.1	+5.2%
121	Luxembourg	6.1	+4.1%
122	Afghanistan	6.1	-6%
123	North Macedonia	6.1	+1.9%
124	El Salvador	5.6	+2.6%
125	Cameroon	5.5	+9.5%
126	Moldova	5.5	-6.5%
127	Cyprus	5.4	+3.7%
128	Mali	5	+1.4%
129	Brunei	4.8	-5.1%
130	Lebanon	4.8	-17.4%
131	Nicaragua	4.4	-1%
132	Papua New Guinea	4.4	0%
133	Uganda	4.2	-0.8%
134	Republic of the Congo	4.1	+37%
135	Botswana	4	-3.8%
136	Jamaica	3.6	+1%
137	Yemen	3.6	-22.1%
138	Guinea	3.6	+0.8%
139	Namibia	3.6	+4.9%
140	Mauritius	3.2	+4.1%
141	Montenegro	3.2	+17.8%
142	New Caledonia	3.1	+1%
143	Malta	2.9	+7.5%
144	Burkina Faso	2.9	-6%
145	Gabon	2.6	+1%
146	Madagascar	2.3	-2.8%
147	Mauritania	2.1	+1.1%
148	Bahamas	2	-7.9%
149	Togo	2	-3.3%
150	Benin	1.8	-3.6%
151	Guam	1.8	+3.2%
152	Niger	1.7	-7%
153	Malawi	1.6	+0.1%
154	Suriname	1.5	+1.1%
155	Eswatini	1.5	-2%
156	Equatorial Guinea	1.3	+5.2%
157	Guyana	1.1	-0.5%
158	Fiji	1	+0.2%
159	Barbados	1	+1.1%
160	Rwanda	1	+0.4%
161	Maldives	0.8	+0.9%
162	Aruba	0.8	+0.4%
163	Haiti	0.7	+5%
164	Belize	0.7	+18.1%
165	Cayman Islands	0.7	+0.5%
166	French Polynesia	0.7	+1%
167	Djibouti	0.7	+14.2%
168	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.6	0%
169	Seychelles	0.6	+1.8%
170	Greenland	0.6	-4%
171	Burundi	0.5	-4.8%
172	Lesotho	0.5	+35.1%
173	Faroe Islands	0.5	0%
174	Cape Verde	0.4	+3.2%
175	Timor-Leste	0.4	0%
176	Gambia	0.4	+0.1%
177	Somalia	0.4	+1.7%
178	Liberia	0.4	-7.8%
179	Eritrea	0.4	-7.4%
180	Bermuda	0.4	-16.9%
181	Saint Lucia	0.4	+0.7%
182	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	+1.4%
183	Chad	0.3	+14.2%
184	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.3	+0.3%
185	Grenada	0.2	+2.2%
186	Gibraltar	0.2	-17%
187	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	+0.3%
188	British Virgin Islands	0.2	0%
189	American Samoa	0.2	+0.4%
190	Dominica	0.1	0%
191	Samoa	0.1	+2.1%
192	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	+0.2%
193	Sierra Leone	0.1	+1.4%
194	Central African Republic	0.1	0%
195	Comoros	0.1	0%
196	Martinique	0.1	n/a
197	Solomon Islands	0.1	-1.4%
198	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	+0.5%
199	Vanuatu	0.1	0%
200	Tonga	0.1	+1.3%
201	French Guiana	0.1	n/a
202	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	0%
203	São Tomé and Príncipe	0	0%
204	Cook Islands	0	+5.5%
205	Nauru	0	+1.7%
206	Kiribati	0	+2.6%
207	Falkland Islands	0	0%
208	Montserrat	0	+1.7%
209	Saint Helena	0	0%
210	Niue	0	0%
211	Antarctica	0	n/a
211	Western Sahara	0	n/a

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About this ranking

Net electricity consumption in the country in the year: net generation plus imports, minus exports and transmission and distribution losses, in terawatt hours (billion kilowatt hours), as estimated by the U.S. Energy Information Administration in its International Energy Statistics.

Countries only. EIA publishes 0 for some small economies in years it has no estimate, and a few tiny negative values where losses exceed supply.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 2 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2024 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. International Energy Statistics: electricity net consumption, billion kilowatt hours (series INTL.2-2-BKWH.A). Retrieved through Data Commons (datacommons.org). https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world. Retrieved 2026-10-11.

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Which country has the highest electricity consumption?

China, with 9,793.7 TWh in 2024, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest electricity consumption?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2024.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics: electricity net consumption, billion kilowatt hours (series INTL.2-2-BKWH.A). Retrieved 2026-10-11. 2 countries have no value for 2024 and are not ranked.

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