Countries by electricity consumption

China had the highest electricity consumption of 210 countries in 2017, at 6,322.9 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 8.8 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest6,322.9China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median8.8210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2017

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	2017 TWh	Change on 2016
1	China	6,322.9	+8.5%
2	United States	3,888.3	-0.8%
3	India	1,172.6	+3.5%
4	Japan	1,021.5	+0.3%
5	Russia	956	+0.9%
6	Germany	551.9	+0.2%
7	Canada	551.2	-1.5%
8	South Korea	533.9	+0.7%
9	Brazil	533.4	+1.4%
10	France	457	-0.5%
11	Saudi Arabia	347	+1.4%
12	United Kingdom	315.5	-1.4%
13	Italy	310.5	+2.3%
14	Mexico	278.9	-0.4%
15	Iran	268.7	+6.5%
16	Türkiye	259.5	+7.2%
17	Taiwan	257.3	+2.2%
18	Spain	252.7	+2.8%
19	Australia	249	+1.3%
20	Indonesia	241.1	+15.6%
21	South Africa	221.9	+0.5%
22	Thailand	193.4	-0.5%
23	Vietnam	182.6	+8.6%
24	Egypt	162.5	+7.9%
25	Poland	161.6	+2.3%
26	Malaysia	151.9	+4.5%
27	Sweden	133.2	+0.1%
28	Argentina	132.9	-2.2%
29	Ukraine	130.3	-7.5%
30	United Arab Emirates	126.3	+3.3%
31	Norway	124.6	+1.1%
32	Netherlands	113.6	+0.5%
33	Pakistan	109.8	+10%
34	Kazakhstan	92.3	+4.9%
35	Belgium	86.7	+1%
36	Philippines	86.1	+4.4%
37	Finland	83.8	-0%
38	Chile	74.7	-1.6%
39	Colombia	73	+5%
40	Venezuela	70.5	-14.3%
41	Bangladesh	69.8	+6.7%
42	Austria	68.6	+2%
43	Algeria	64.9	+7.9%
44	Czechia	64.3	+1.6%
45	Kuwait	62.4	-2.4%
46	Israel	59.4	+0.8%
47	Greece	58.2	+1.6%
48	Switzerland	56.4	+0.5%
49	Romania	53	+3.1%
50	Singapore	51.7	+2.1%
51	Uzbekistan	50.4	+4.6%
52	Portugal	49.2	+1.2%
53	Peru	47.2	+2.3%
54	Iraq	46.4	+13%
55	Hong Kong	43.8	-0.5%
56	Qatar	43	+7.7%
57	Hungary	41.1	+3.7%
58	New Zealand	40.8	+1.5%
59	Bulgaria	34.9	+4.2%
60	Belarus	34.2	+1.5%
61	Denmark	33.4	+1.2%
62	Oman	32.8	+5.9%
63	Serbia	32.1	+1.7%
64	Morocco	31.6	+4.6%
65	Bahrain	28.6	+2.7%
66	Slovakia	27.9	+3.9%
67	Ireland	27.6	+1.8%
68	Libya	26.9	+5.6%
69	Nigeria	24.9	-14.3%
70	Ecuador	24.1	+3.4%
71	Azerbaijan	20.8	-3.4%
72	North Korea	19.7	-1.6%
73	Lebanon	19.5	+11.5%
74	Jordan	18.8	+4.8%
75	Iceland	18.5	+4.5%
76	Turkmenistan	17.8	+8.3%
77	Cuba	17.4	-0.3%
78	Tunisia	17	+3.6%
79	Myanmar	16.8	+25.6%
80	Dominican Republic	16.7	+2.2%
81	Croatia	16.6	+4.5%
82	Puerto Rico	15.4	-20.7%
83	Slovenia	14.2	+3.3%
84	Syria	14.1	-0.9%
85	Sri Lanka	14.1	+5.3%
86	Tajikistan	13.9	+5.7%
87	Sudan	13.4	+12.3%
88	Mozambique	13.3	+2.1%
89	Bosnia and Herzegovina	13.2	+4.7%
90	Zambia	12.6	+12.1%
91	Ghana	12.5	-2.4%
92	Paraguay	12.2	+4.2%
93	Georgia	11.3	+6.9%
94	Kyrgyzstan	11.3	+6.5%
95	Uruguay	11.2	-2.7%
96	Lithuania	10.9	+3.1%
97	Costa Rica	10.1	+0.8%
98	Guatemala	9.9	+0.2%
99	Estonia	9.6	+2.5%
100	Angola	9.6	-2.1%
101	Democratic Republic of the Congo	9.5	+7.2%
102	Panama	9.3	+3.1%
103	Kenya	9.1	+17.5%
104	Trinidad and Tobago	9	-1.3%
105	Ethiopia	8.8	+2.2%
106	Bolivia	8.7	+2.9%
107	Zimbabwe	8	+8.7%
108	Honduras	7	+7.3%
109	Cambodia	7	+9%
110	Mongolia	6.8	+8%
111	Côte d’Ivoire	6.6	-4.5%
112	North Macedonia	6.6	-1.1%
113	Luxembourg	6.4	+0.5%
114	El Salvador	6.3	+1%
115	Cameroon	6.3	+15.2%
116	Albania	6.2	-18.7%
117	Tanzania	6	+4.2%
118	Latvia	6	-1.9%
119	Armenia	5.7	+5.5%
120	Nepal	5.7	+16.1%
121	Moldova	5.5	+4.7%
122	Palestine	5.4	+1.9%
123	Macao	5.3	+2.8%
124	Afghanistan	5.3	+6.1%
125	Cyprus	4.8	+3.3%
126	Laos	4.4	-9%
127	Senegal	4.4	-1.8%
128	Namibia	4.1	+4.3%
129	Papua New Guinea	4	-10%
130	Nicaragua	3.9	+3.5%
131	Brunei	3.7	-8.7%
132	Botswana	3.7	-3.5%
133	Jamaica	3.2	-2.8%
134	New Caledonia	3.2	+4%
135	Yemen	3.1	-14.9%
136	Montenegro	3.1	+6.4%
137	Mauritius	2.9	+2.2%
138	Mali	2.9	+22.2%
139	Uganda	2.4	-11.4%
140	Malta	2.3	+7.3%
141	Gabon	2.3	+10%
142	Bhutan	2	-3.9%
143	Bahamas	2	+1.1%
144	Madagascar	1.9	+4.5%
145	Guam	1.7	+1.9%
146	Republic of the Congo	1.7	+3.1%
147	Malawi	1.6	-14%
148	Suriname	1.6	-0.9%
149	Burkina Faso	1.5	+7.1%
150	Guinea	1.5	+9.7%
151	Togo	1.4	-8.4%
152	Mauritania	1.3	+11.6%
153	Eswatini	1.3	+9%
154	Niger	1.2	-11%
155	Equatorial Guinea	1.2	-4.6%
156	Benin	1.1	+6.3%
157	Barbados	1	-1.8%
158	Fiji	0.9	+6.4%
159	Guyana	0.9	+1.3%
160	Aruba	0.8	+2.5%
161	Lesotho	0.8	+9.6%
162	Maldives	0.7	+8.3%
163	Cayman Islands	0.7	+3.6%
164	French Polynesia	0.6	-0.2%
165	Belize	0.6	+1%
166	Rwanda	0.5	-6.1%
167	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.5	-23.3%
168	Greenland	0.5	+5.7%
169	Bermuda	0.5	-22.7%
170	Seychelles	0.5	+4.5%
171	Djibouti	0.5	+5.5%
172	Haiti	0.4	-7.6%
173	Saint Lucia	0.4	+3%
174	Timor-Leste	0.3	+2.8%
175	Burundi	0.3	+22.9%
176	Somalia	0.3	+0.4%
177	Cape Verde	0.3	-5.9%
178	Faroe Islands	0.3	+6.1%
179	Eritrea	0.3	+21%
180	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.3	+22.8%
181	Chad	0.3	+1.6%
182	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	-0.7%
183	Gambia	0.2	+2.2%
184	Grenada	0.2	+4.1%
185	Gibraltar	0.2	0%
186	Liberia	0.2	-12.2%
187	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	-4.2%
188	British Virgin Islands	0.2	-21%
189	American Samoa	0.2	+0.4%
190	Samoa	0.1	+15%
191	Central African Republic	0.1	-11.8%
192	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	-1.9%
193	Sierra Leone	0.1	+13.3%
194	Dominica	0.1	-15%
195	Solomon Islands	0.1	+0.3%
196	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	+0.1%
197	Comoros	0.1	+48%
198	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	+4.5%
199	Vanuatu	0.1	+1.2%
200	Tonga	0.1	+11.2%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	+2.7%
202	Cook Islands	0	+10.5%
203	Kiribati	0	0%
204	Nauru	0	+23%
205	Falkland Islands	0	-13.6%
206	Montserrat	0	0%
207	Saint Helena	0	+9.7%
208	Niue	0	0%
209	Antarctica	0	-100%
209	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 2017 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 6,322.9 TWh in 2017, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest electricity consumption?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2017.

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 2017 and are not ranked.

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