Countries by electricity consumption

China had the highest electricity consumption of 210 countries in 2018, at 6,734.4 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 9 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest6,734.4China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median9210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2018

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	2018 TWh	Change on 2017
1	China	6,734.4	+6.5%
2	United States	4,032.6	+3.7%
3	India	1,215.1	+3.6%
4	Japan	996.3	-2.5%
5	Russia	967.2	+1.2%
6	South Korea	558.5	+4.6%
7	Canada	555.1	+0.7%
8	Brazil	542.9	+1.8%
9	Germany	541.7	-1.8%
10	France	453.4	-0.8%
11	Saudi Arabia	356	+2.6%
12	United Kingdom	317.3	+0.6%
13	Italy	311.3	+0.3%
14	Mexico	308.8	+10.7%
15	Iran	271.4	+1%
16	Türkiye	269.7	+3.9%
17	Taiwan	262.2	+1.9%
18	Australia	254.6	+2.2%
19	Spain	251.8	-0.4%
20	Indonesia	244.4	+1.3%
21	South Africa	223.8	+0.8%
22	Vietnam	203.7	+11.5%
23	Thailand	194.6	+0.6%
24	Poland	165.7	+2.5%
25	Egypt	164.4	+1.2%
26	Malaysia	157	+3.3%
27	Ukraine	132.7	+1.9%
28	Sweden	132.4	-0.6%
29	Argentina	132.3	-0.4%
30	United Arab Emirates	128.1	+1.4%
31	Norway	127.2	+2.1%
32	Netherlands	116.2	+2.3%
33	Pakistan	112.7	+2.7%
34	Kazakhstan	97.6	+5.7%
35	Philippines	90.7	+5.4%
36	Belgium	87.1	+0.5%
37	Finland	86	+2.7%
38	Chile	78.3	+4.7%
39	Bangladesh	75.5	+8.2%
40	Colombia	71.1	-2.6%
41	Venezuela	67.7	-4%
42	Kuwait	67.6	+8.3%
43	Austria	66.8	-2.6%
44	Algeria	66.8	+2.9%
45	Czechia	66.7	+3.7%
46	Israel	60.6	+2.1%
47	Uzbekistan	57.9	+15%
48	Switzerland	55.3	-2%
49	Romania	53.8	+1.5%
50	Singapore	52.6	+1.6%
51	Greece	52.1	-10.5%
52	Portugal	50.1	+2%
53	Peru	48.7	+3.2%
54	Iraq	47.5	+2.2%
55	Qatar	45.3	+5.3%
56	Hong Kong	44.3	+1.1%
57	Hungary	41.8	+1.6%
58	New Zealand	40.9	+0.2%
59	Belarus	35.2	+2.7%
60	Bulgaria	34.6	-0.6%
61	Oman	34.1	+3.9%
62	Denmark	33.1	-0.9%
63	Serbia	31.9	-0.6%
64	Morocco	31.7	+0.3%
65	Bahrain	29.2	+2%
66	Nigeria	28.7	+15%
67	Ireland	28.4	+2.7%
68	Slovakia	27.8	-0.2%
69	Libya	27.7	+3.1%
70	Ecuador	25.3	+4.8%
71	Azerbaijan	21.6	+3.9%
72	North Korea	20.9	+6%
73	Turkmenistan	19.3	+8.2%
74	Iceland	19.1	+3.6%
75	Lebanon	19	-2.6%
76	Jordan	18.4	-2%
77	Syria	18	+27.5%
78	Cuba	17.5	+0.7%
79	Myanmar	17.2	+2.8%
80	Tunisia	17.2	+1.1%
81	Puerto Rico	17.2	+11.5%
82	Dominican Republic	17.1	+2%
83	Croatia	16.6	-0%
84	Tajikistan	14.5	+4%
85	Slovenia	14.3	+1.2%
86	Sri Lanka	14.1	-0%
87	Sudan	13.6	+1.4%
88	Zambia	13.5	+7.2%
89	Bosnia and Herzegovina	13.2	-0.1%
90	Paraguay	13.1	+7.6%
91	Ghana	13.1	+4.6%
92	Mozambique	13.1	-1.9%
93	Georgia	12.1	+6.5%
94	Uruguay	11.9	+6%
95	Kyrgyzstan	11.9	+4.9%
96	Angola	11.7	+21.9%
97	Lithuania	11.2	+3.2%
98	Democratic Republic of the Congo	10.5	+10.3%
99	Costa Rica	10.2	+1%
100	Guatemala	10.1	+2.7%
101	Ethiopia	10.1	+14.9%
102	Estonia	9.7	+0.8%
103	Panama	9.5	+2%
104	Bolivia	9.2	+4.8%
105	Cambodia	9	+29.9%
106	Kenya	8.9	-1.9%
107	Trinidad and Tobago	8.8	-2.8%
108	Zimbabwe	8.7	+8.1%
109	Mongolia	7.3	+8.3%
110	Honduras	7.2	+2%
111	Latvia	7.2	+18.8%
112	Côte d’Ivoire	7.1	+7.3%
113	Cameroon	6.8	+7.6%
114	North Macedonia	6.5	-0.6%
115	Tanzania	6.5	+7.4%
116	Luxembourg	6.5	+1%
117	Albania	6.5	+5.2%
118	Nepal	6.5	+13.4%
119	El Salvador	6.3	-0%
120	Moldova	5.8	+4.2%
121	Palestine	5.6	+3.5%
122	Armenia	5.6	-3.3%
123	Afghanistan	5.5	+4.8%
124	Macao	5.4	+2.6%
125	Laos	5	+13.3%
126	Cyprus	4.9	+2.6%
127	Senegal	4.6	+4.9%
128	Namibia	4.3	+4%
129	Papua New Guinea	4	-0.2%
130	Nicaragua	3.9	+0.6%
131	Brunei	3.8	+3.7%
132	New Caledonia	3.4	+8.2%
133	Botswana	3.4	-7.1%
134	Mali	3.1	+8.5%
135	Montenegro	3.1	+0.7%
136	Uganda	3.1	+26.3%
137	Mauritius	2.9	+0.6%
138	Gabon	2.8	+24.3%
139	Jamaica	2.8	-12.9%
140	Yemen	2.8	-10.9%
141	Burkina Faso	2.5	+61.6%
142	Malta	2.4	+4.8%
143	Bhutan	2.3	+18.3%
144	Madagascar	2.3	+21.1%
145	Bahamas	2	+0.6%
146	Republic of the Congo	1.7	+2.2%
147	Suriname	1.7	+6%
148	Guinea	1.7	+9.7%
149	Guam	1.7	-1.9%
150	Malawi	1.5	-7.1%
151	Mauritania	1.4	+7.2%
152	Togo	1.3	-6.9%
153	Eswatini	1.2	-6.1%
154	Niger	1.2	+2%
155	Equatorial Guinea	1.2	+2.8%
156	Benin	1.2	+4.8%
157	Barbados	1	+0.4%
158	Fiji	1	+10.1%
159	Guyana	0.9	+2.8%
160	Aruba	0.8	-2%
161	Lesotho	0.8	-1.7%
162	Maldives	0.8	+7.8%
163	Rwanda	0.7	+34.8%
164	Cayman Islands	0.7	+2%
165	French Polynesia	0.6	-0.6%
166	Belize	0.6	+2.6%
167	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.6	+3.9%
168	Greenland	0.5	+3.4%
169	Seychelles	0.5	+0.8%
170	Djibouti	0.5	+2.8%
171	Bermuda	0.5	-5%
172	Haiti	0.4	-4.3%
173	Burundi	0.4	+24.5%
174	Saint Lucia	0.4	+1.6%
175	Timor-Leste	0.4	+5.1%
176	Somalia	0.3	+9.3%
177	Eritrea	0.3	+18.4%
178	Faroe Islands	0.3	+4.8%
179	Cape Verde	0.3	+1.2%
180	Gambia	0.3	+25.8%
181	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	+16.9%
182	Chad	0.3	+8.1%
183	Liberia	0.3	+31.6%
184	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.2	-13.3%
185	Grenada	0.2	+3.2%
186	Gibraltar	0.2	+0.4%
187	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	+5%
188	Sierra Leone	0.2	+33.7%
189	American Samoa	0.2	-0.1%
190	British Virgin Islands	0.2	-4.5%
191	Central African Republic	0.1	-0.3%
192	Samoa	0.1	-5.4%
193	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	-0.6%
194	Dominica	0.1	-17.1%
195	Solomon Islands	0.1	-1.2%
196	Comoros	0.1	+19.3%
197	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	-0.5%
198	Vanuatu	0.1	+12.4%
199	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	-1%
200	Tonga	0.1	+1.9%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	+3.3%
202	Cook Islands	0	+23.9%
203	Nauru	0	+10.1%
204	Kiribati	0	+0.8%
205	Falkland Islands	0	-3%
206	Montserrat	0	+4.7%
207	Saint Helena	0	+1.5%
208	Niue	0	-3.2%
209	Antarctica	0	n/a
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 2018 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 6,734.4 TWh in 2018, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest electricity consumption?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2018.

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 2018 and are not ranked.

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