Countries by electricity consumption

China had the highest electricity consumption of 210 countries in 2015, at 5,509.5 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 8 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest5,509.5China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median8210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2015

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	2015 TWh	Change on 2014
1	China	5,509.5	+0.8%
2	United States	3,914.3	-0%
3	India	1,112	+1.1%
4	Japan	1,002.7	-1.8%
5	Russia	928.7	-0.2%
6	Canada	555	-2.9%
7	Germany	547.8	+1%
8	Brazil	527	-1.7%
9	South Korea	521	+0.6%
10	France	452.3	+2.2%
11	Saudi Arabia	335	+6%
12	United Kingdom	322	+0.2%
13	Italy	305.8	+2.1%
14	Mexico	269.3	+3.7%
15	Taiwan	246.3	-0.4%
16	Spain	244.9	+2.2%
17	Australia	242.9	+3.2%
18	Indonesia	242.5	+19%
19	Iran	236.5	+1.4%
20	Türkiye	226.8	+3.9%
21	South Africa	223.1	-1.2%
22	Thailand	176.9	+1.7%
23	Egypt	156.3	+1.6%
24	Poland	152.9	+2%
25	Vietnam	150	+18.1%
26	Malaysia	141.2	+4.8%
27	Ukraine	139.9	-6.8%
28	Argentina	136.1	+4.3%
29	Sweden	130.4	+2%
30	Norway	119.8	+2.6%
31	United Arab Emirates	119.5	+7.6%
32	Netherlands	112	-0.7%
33	Pakistan	96.1	+5.9%
34	Kazakhstan	86.6	-0.4%
35	Venezuela	86.2	+20.2%
36	Belgium	83.6	+1.1%
37	Finland	81.3	-0.6%
38	Philippines	74.9	+7.4%
39	Chile	71.2	+8.2%
40	Colombia	70.4	+10.4%
41	Austria	66.6	+2.1%
42	Czechia	64	+1.9%
43	Kuwait	62.3	+4.8%
44	Algeria	57.6	+8.5%
45	Israel	56.6	+4.2%
46	Switzerland	55.9	+1.5%
47	Bangladesh	55.5	+7.8%
48	Greece	54	+2.9%
49	Romania	51	+2.1%
50	Singapore	49.5	+2.4%
51	Portugal	48.1	+2.1%
52	Uzbekistan	47.1	+2.9%
53	Hong Kong	43.9	+0.1%
54	Peru	42.9	+5.4%
55	Iraq	42.3	-2.9%
56	New Zealand	40.7	+1.5%
57	Qatar	39.1	+7.4%
58	Hungary	38.9	+3.3%
59	Belarus	33.8	-3.1%
60	Bulgaria	33.2	+2.9%
61	Denmark	32.6	+1%
62	Serbia	31.1	+5.3%
63	Libya	30.4	-0.8%
64	Oman	29.6	+14%
65	Morocco	29.3	+2%
66	Nigeria	28.2	+2.8%
67	Bahrain	27.9	+4.4%
68	Ireland	26.4	+2.9%
69	Slovakia	26.2	+1.3%
70	Ecuador	22.9	+5.2%
71	Azerbaijan	21.6	+3.1%
72	Puerto Rico	19.7	-0.7%
73	Iceland	18	+3.9%
74	Jordan	17.4	+4.4%
75	Cuba	17.3	+4.7%
76	Lebanon	17	+5%
77	Turkmenistan	16.4	+12.3%
78	Tunisia	16.2	+1.1%
79	Croatia	16.1	+4.8%
80	North Korea	15.9	-11.9%
81	Dominican Republic	15.7	+4%
82	Syria	14	-15.9%
83	Myanmar	13.6	+18.6%
84	Slovenia	13.5	+2.7%
85	Tajikistan	13.2	+9.1%
86	Mozambique	12.5	+6%
87	Sri Lanka	12.3	+7.5%
88	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12.1	+0.9%
89	Zambia	11.8	+6.6%
90	Paraguay	11.2	+5.2%
91	Uruguay	10.9	+4.3%
92	Kyrgyzstan	10.8	-3.6%
93	Ghana	10.7	-1.9%
94	Sudan	10.3	+10.6%
95	Lithuania	10.2	+1.4%
96	Georgia	10.1	+1.4%
97	Costa Rica	9.5	+2.4%
98	Guatemala	9.3	+6.4%
99	Trinidad and Tobago	9.3	+1.6%
100	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.9	-1.7%
101	Panama	8.8	+8.8%
102	Angola	8.7	+2.5%
103	Estonia	8.5	-3.6%
104	Bolivia	8.2	+8.9%
105	Kenya	8.2	+7.4%
106	Zimbabwe	7.8	-3.4%
107	Ethiopia	7.6	+15.8%
108	North Macedonia	7.1	-2%
109	El Salvador	6.3	+5.3%
110	Honduras	6.3	+4.6%
111	Cameroon	6.3	+14.9%
112	Luxembourg	6.3	+0.7%
113	Latvia	6.1	-2.6%
114	Côte d’Ivoire	6.1	-1.6%
115	Mongolia	6.1	+3.4%
116	Albania	6	-9.4%
117	Moldova	5.5	+1%
118	Armenia	5.5	+0.1%
119	Tanzania	5.5	+5.8%
120	Cambodia	5.3	+26.7%
121	Palestine	5.2	+12.4%
122	Macao	4.9	+6.7%
123	Afghanistan	4.4	+2.1%
124	Yemen	4.3	-24.3%
125	Cyprus	4.3	+3.5%
126	Senegal	4.1	+6.4%
127	Laos	4.1	+12.6%
128	Papua New Guinea	4.1	+8.6%
129	Brunei	3.9	-6.8%
130	Nepal	3.9	-0.3%
131	Botswana	3.9	+4.2%
132	Namibia	3.8	+1.1%
133	Nicaragua	3.5	+3.9%
134	Jamaica	3.2	+0.8%
135	Montenegro	2.9	+7.1%
136	New Caledonia	2.8	-3.8%
137	Mauritius	2.8	+2.3%
138	Uganda	2.7	+25.4%
139	Mali	2.4	+22.5%
140	Malta	2.2	+3.2%
141	Bhutan	2.1	-0.7%
142	Bahamas	2	+5.2%
143	Gabon	2	+2.7%
144	Malawi	1.7	-4.3%
145	Madagascar	1.7	+3.8%
146	Guam	1.6	+0.7%
147	Suriname	1.6	-1.3%
148	Republic of the Congo	1.5	+65.1%
149	Eswatini	1.3	+0.2%
150	Burkina Faso	1.3	+6.4%
151	Mauritania	1.2	+10.8%
152	Equatorial Guinea	1.2	+20%
153	Niger	1.1	+12.1%
154	Benin	1.1	-4.4%
155	Barbados	1	+4.1%
156	Guinea	1	+60.2%
157	Fiji	0.9	+4.9%
158	Togo	0.8	-49.5%
159	Aruba	0.8	+1.9%
160	Guyana	0.8	+1.9%
161	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.7	+0.8%
162	Lesotho	0.7	-3.4%
163	Bermuda	0.6	+1.9%
164	French Polynesia	0.6	+3.2%
165	Maldives	0.6	+14.3%
166	Cayman Islands	0.6	+3.1%
167	Belize	0.5	+5.9%
168	Greenland	0.5	+6.5%
169	Rwanda	0.5	+15.4%
170	Haiti	0.4	+2.7%
171	Seychelles	0.4	+6.2%
172	Djibouti	0.4	+10.2%
173	Saint Lucia	0.4	+1.9%
174	Somalia	0.3	+0.3%
175	Cape Verde	0.3	-2.7%
176	Faroe Islands	0.3	+0.7%
177	Liberia	0.3	+3.6%
178	Timor-Leste	0.3	-1.3%
179	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	+3.5%
180	Chad	0.3	+1.4%
181	Eritrea	0.2	-4%
182	Burundi	0.2	-1.2%
183	Gambia	0.2	+12.4%
184	Gibraltar	0.2	+13%
184	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.2	+1.4%
186	British Virgin Islands	0.2	+4.9%
187	Grenada	0.2	+2%
188	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	+2.1%
189	Central African Republic	0.2	0%
190	American Samoa	0.1	+2.9%
191	Dominica	0.1	+2.6%
192	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	+3.9%
193	Samoa	0.1	+1.6%
194	Sierra Leone	0.1	+23.5%
195	Solomon Islands	0.1	+1.4%
196	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	+32.3%
197	Vanuatu	0.1	-3.5%
198	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	+114.4%
199	Tonga	0.1	+1.6%
200	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	-3.9%
201	Comoros	0	+3.1%
202	Cook Islands	0	+0.7%
203	Kiribati	0	+10.2%
204	Nauru	0	+12.8%
205	Falkland Islands	0	0%
206	Montserrat	0	+1.6%
207	Saint Helena	0	-11.8%
208	Niue	0	+3.3%
209	Antarctica	0	+80%
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 2015 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 5,509.5 TWh in 2015, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest electricity consumption?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2015.

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 2015 and are not ranked.

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