Countries by electricity consumption

China had the highest electricity consumption of 210 countries in 2014, at 5,464.7 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 7.6 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest5,464.7China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median7.6210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2014

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	2014 TWh	Change on 2013
1	China	5,464.7	+7.2%
2	United States	3,914.5	+1%
3	India	1,099.7	+14.2%
4	Japan	1,020.9	-1.7%
5	Russia	930.3	+1.1%
6	Canada	571.3	+0.7%
7	Germany	542.6	-2.2%
8	Brazil	535.9	+4%
9	South Korea	517.7	+1.3%
10	France	442.6	-5.3%
11	United Kingdom	321.4	-4.3%
12	Saudi Arabia	315.9	+11.6%
13	Italy	299.6	-2.2%
14	Mexico	259.7	+2%
15	Taiwan	247.3	+2.4%
16	Spain	239.6	-1.1%
17	Australia	235.4	-1.3%
18	Iran	233.2	+8.1%
19	South Africa	225.9	+0.1%
20	Türkiye	218.3	+5.2%
21	Indonesia	203.8	+2.8%
22	Thailand	173.9	+1.9%
23	Egypt	153.8	+7.2%
24	Ukraine	150.2	-5.1%
25	Poland	149.9	+0.7%
26	Malaysia	134.7	+0.3%
27	Argentina	130.5	+4.3%
28	Sweden	127.8	-1.7%
29	Vietnam	126.9	+13.9%
30	Norway	116.8	-2.1%
31	Netherlands	112.8	-1.5%
32	United Arab Emirates	111.1	+5.9%
33	Pakistan	90.7	+2.7%
34	Kazakhstan	87	-4.4%
35	Belgium	82.7	-2.5%
36	Finland	81.8	-1.1%
37	Venezuela	71.7	-34.5%
38	Philippines	69.8	+3.4%
39	Chile	65.8	-3.1%
40	Austria	65.2	-1.5%
41	Colombia	63.8	-4.6%
42	Czechia	62.8	-0%
43	Kuwait	59.4	+11.5%
44	Switzerland	55.1	-3.4%
45	Israel	54.3	+0.4%
46	Algeria	53.1	+8.8%
47	Greece	52.4	+0.3%
48	Bangladesh	51.5	+11.2%
49	Romania	49.9	+3%
50	Singapore	48.4	+3.2%
51	Portugal	47.2	-0.3%
52	Uzbekistan	45.8	+2.8%
53	Hong Kong	43.8	+1.3%
54	Iraq	43.6	-2.9%
55	Peru	40.7	+4.5%
56	New Zealand	40.1	+0.6%
57	Hungary	37.7	+1.8%
58	Qatar	36.5	+11.9%
59	Belarus	34.9	+1%
60	Bulgaria	32.3	+1.8%
61	Denmark	32.2	-2%
62	Libya	30.6	-0.4%
63	Serbia	29.6	-4.1%
64	Morocco	28.8	+5.2%
65	Nigeria	27.4	+11.6%
66	Bahrain	26.7	+5%
67	Oman	26	+11.1%
68	Slovakia	25.8	-0.7%
69	Ireland	25.7	+0.6%
70	Ecuador	21.8	+5.3%
71	Azerbaijan	20.9	+6.6%
72	Puerto Rico	19.8	-2%
73	North Korea	18.1	-2.2%
74	Iceland	17.3	-1.8%
75	Jordan	16.7	+5.6%
76	Syria	16.6	-14.3%
77	Cuba	16.5	+1.1%
78	Lebanon	16.2	-7.2%
79	Tunisia	16	+4.3%
80	Croatia	15.4	-1.9%
81	Dominican Republic	15.1	-2.5%
82	Turkmenistan	14.6	+7.4%
83	Slovenia	13.1	-0.9%
84	Tajikistan	12.1	-11.6%
85	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12	-2.3%
86	Mozambique	11.8	+1.9%
87	Myanmar	11.5	+16.9%
88	Sri Lanka	11.4	+5.6%
89	Kyrgyzstan	11.2	+2.5%
90	Zambia	11.1	-0.3%
91	Ghana	10.9	+0.4%
92	Paraguay	10.6	+8.6%
93	Uruguay	10.5	+2.9%
94	Lithuania	10	+1.8%
95	Georgia	9.9	+8%
96	Sudan	9.4	+12.7%
97	Costa Rica	9.3	+1.3%
98	Trinidad and Tobago	9.2	-1%
99	Democratic Republic of the Congo	9.1	+10.1%
100	Estonia	8.9	+0.8%
101	Guatemala	8.8	+3.3%
102	Angola	8.5	+17.4%
103	Zimbabwe	8.1	-2.9%
104	Panama	8.1	+4.1%
105	Kenya	7.6	+15.4%
106	Bolivia	7.5	+6%
107	North Macedonia	7.3	-1.4%
108	Albania	6.7	-9%
109	Ethiopia	6.6	+3.2%
110	Latvia	6.3	-2.1%
111	Luxembourg	6.2	-0%
112	Côte d’Ivoire	6.2	+20.8%
113	Honduras	6	+3.2%
114	El Salvador	6	-0.2%
115	Mongolia	5.9	+8.1%
116	Yemen	5.7	-9.2%
117	Armenia	5.5	+2.1%
118	Cameroon	5.5	+5.4%
119	Moldova	5.5	+1.6%
120	Tanzania	5.2	+5.7%
121	Palestine	4.6	-2.1%
122	Macao	4.6	+5.7%
123	Afghanistan	4.3	+2.9%
124	Brunei	4.2	+5.6%
125	Cambodia	4.2	+17.1%
126	Cyprus	4.2	+1.6%
127	Nepal	3.9	+7.7%
128	Senegal	3.9	+10.8%
129	Namibia	3.8	-0.3%
130	Papua New Guinea	3.8	+5.9%
131	Botswana	3.7	+10%
132	Laos	3.6	+12.9%
133	Nicaragua	3.4	+4.8%
134	Jamaica	3.1	-1.6%
135	New Caledonia	3	+21.2%
136	Mauritius	2.8	+2.1%
137	Montenegro	2.7	-3.4%
138	Uganda	2.1	+2.9%
139	Malta	2.1	+2.3%
140	Bhutan	2.1	+2.9%
141	Gabon	1.9	+5.8%
142	Mali	1.9	+7.8%
143	Bahamas	1.9	+2.5%
144	Malawi	1.8	+10.4%
145	Suriname	1.6	+5.1%
146	Togo	1.6	+104.6%
147	Guam	1.6	-1%
148	Madagascar	1.6	+3.9%
149	Eswatini	1.3	+0.6%
150	Burkina Faso	1.2	+7.1%
151	Benin	1.2	+17.3%
152	Mauritania	1	+5%
153	Niger	1	+11%
154	Barbados	1	+0.6%
155	Equatorial Guinea	1	+25.5%
156	Republic of the Congo	0.9	-2.5%
157	Fiji	0.8	+2.2%
158	Aruba	0.8	+0.7%
159	Guyana	0.8	+5.2%
160	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.7	-6.2%
161	Lesotho	0.7	-2.7%
162	Bermuda	0.6	-1.1%
163	French Polynesia	0.6	-0%
164	Guinea	0.6	+10.1%
165	Cayman Islands	0.6	+1.6%
166	Maldives	0.5	+28.9%
167	Belize	0.5	-6.9%
168	Greenland	0.5	+2.7%
169	Rwanda	0.4	+14%
170	Haiti	0.4	-7.9%
171	Seychelles	0.4	+2.4%
172	Djibouti	0.4	+2.8%
173	Saint Lucia	0.3	-0.9%
174	Cape Verde	0.3	+7.7%
175	Somalia	0.3	0%
176	Faroe Islands	0.3	+3.8%
177	Timor-Leste	0.3	+18.6%
178	Liberia	0.3	0%
179	Chad	0.3	+6.1%
180	Eritrea	0.3	-0.8%
181	Antigua and Barbuda	0.2	-2.1%
182	Burundi	0.2	+1.2%
183	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.2	+8.6%
184	Gambia	0.2	+1.3%
185	Gibraltar	0.2	+4.9%
186	Grenada	0.2	+2.1%
187	British Virgin Islands	0.2	+3.9%
188	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	0%
189	Central African Republic	0.2	+24.1%
190	American Samoa	0.1	-0.7%
191	Dominica	0.1	+2.7%
192	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	-0.2%
193	Samoa	0.1	+12.8%
194	Solomon Islands	0.1	+6.5%
195	Sierra Leone	0.1	-7.3%
196	Vanuatu	0.1	-1.8%
197	Tonga	0.1	+4%
198	São Tomé and Príncipe	0	+8.9%
199	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	+1.3%
200	Comoros	0	-8.6%
201	Cook Islands	0	-2.3%
202	Guinea-Bissau	0	+27.5%
203	Kiribati	0	+6.6%
204	Falkland Islands	0	+1.2%
205	Nauru	0	+1.8%
206	Montserrat	0	+2.5%
207	Saint Helena	0	-13.9%
208	Niue	0	-3.2%
209	Antarctica	0	0%
210	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. 4 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2014 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 5,464.7 TWh in 2014, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest electricity consumption?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2014.

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. 4 countries have no value for 2014 and are not ranked.

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