Countries by electricity consumption

China had the highest electricity consumption of 210 countries in 2019, at 7,096.7 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 9.1 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest7,096.7China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median9.1210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2019

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	2019 TWh	Change on 2018
1	China	7,096.7	+5.4%
2	United States	3,989.4	-1.1%
3	India	1,261.1	+3.8%
4	Russia	979.2	+1.2%
5	Japan	973.6	-2.3%
6	Brazil	550.9	+1.5%
7	South Korea	548.2	-1.8%
8	Canada	546.6	-1.5%
9	Germany	520.9	-3.9%
10	France	448.4	-1.1%
11	Saudi Arabia	356.9	+0.3%
12	United Kingdom	312.6	-1.5%
13	Italy	303.2	-2.6%
14	Mexico	298.7	-3.3%
15	Iran	286.2	+5.4%
16	Türkiye	268.3	-0.5%
17	Taiwan	261.2	-0.4%
18	Australia	259.5	+1.9%
19	Indonesia	257.6	+5.4%
20	Spain	247.3	-1.8%
21	Vietnam	222.7	+9.4%
22	South Africa	218.9	-2.2%
23	Thailand	201.2	+3.4%
24	Malaysia	165.4	+5.4%
25	Poland	164	-1%
26	Egypt	160.7	-2.3%
27	United Arab Emirates	131.4	+2.6%
28	Sweden	129	-2.6%
29	Argentina	128.4	-2.9%
30	Ukraine	128.2	-3.4%
31	Norway	124.9	-1.8%
32	Netherlands	115.6	-0.5%
33	Pakistan	110.7	-1.8%
34	Kazakhstan	96.7	-0.9%
35	Philippines	96	+5.8%
36	Belgium	86.4	-0.8%
37	Finland	84.4	-1.9%
38	Bangladesh	82.4	+9.1%
39	Chile	81.4	+4%
40	Colombia	73.4	+3.2%
41	Algeria	71.6	+7.2%
42	Austria	68.4	+2.4%
43	Kuwait	68.3	+1.2%
44	Czechia	66.3	-0.5%
45	Israel	62.9	+3.6%
46	Uzbekistan	60.2	+3.9%
47	Venezuela	57.8	-14.6%
48	Iraq	55	+16%
49	Switzerland	54.9	-0.8%
50	Singapore	53.9	+2.5%
51	Greece	53.1	+2%
52	Romania	51.9	-3.5%
53	Peru	50.5	+3.8%
54	Portugal	49.5	-1.3%
55	Qatar	47.2	+4.3%
56	Hong Kong	44.9	+1.5%
57	Hungary	41.7	-0.2%
58	New Zealand	40.9	0%
59	Belarus	35.4	+0.7%
60	Oman	35.3	+3.6%
61	Bulgaria	34.2	-1.1%
62	Denmark	33.2	+0.6%
63	Morocco	32.6	+2.9%
64	Bahrain	32.4	+10.8%
65	Serbia	32.2	+0.9%
66	Nigeria	29.2	+1.7%
67	Ireland	28.8	+1.7%
68	Libya	28.4	+2.4%
69	Slovakia	26.9	-3.2%
70	Ecuador	26.4	+4.2%
71	Azerbaijan	22.4	+3.6%
72	North Korea	20.1	-3.7%
73	Lebanon	19.5	+2.4%
74	Iceland	18.8	-1.6%
75	Dominican Republic	18.5	+8.6%
76	Jordan	18.4	0%
77	Syria	18.3	+1.6%
78	Tunisia	18.2	+5.7%
79	Puerto Rico	18	+5%
80	Cuba	17.3	-1.5%
81	Croatia	16.6	-0.2%
82	Turkmenistan	16.4	-14.9%
83	Tajikistan	15.6	+8%
84	Sri Lanka	15.2	+8.2%
85	Ghana	14.8	+12.9%
86	Myanmar	14.6	-15.1%
87	Slovenia	14.3	-0.2%
88	Angola	14.1	+20.4%
89	Mozambique	13.7	+5%
90	Paraguay	13.4	+1.9%
91	Sudan	13	-4.5%
92	Zambia	12.9	-4.3%
93	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12.5	-5.3%
94	Kyrgyzstan	12.4	+4.8%
95	Georgia	12.3	+2%
96	Uruguay	11.8	-1%
97	Democratic Republic of the Congo	11.7	+11.4%
98	Lithuania	11.4	+1.2%
99	Ethiopia	11	+8.8%
100	Cambodia	10.7	+18.9%
101	Costa Rica	10.4	+2.1%
102	Guatemala	10.1	-0.5%
103	Panama	10	+5.5%
104	Bolivia	9.5	+3.5%
105	Estonia	9.3	-4.6%
106	Kenya	9	+0.7%
107	Trinidad and Tobago	8.8	-0.4%
108	Zimbabwe	8	-7.8%
109	Mongolia	7.7	+5.7%
110	Honduras	7.7	+7.7%
111	Côte d’Ivoire	7.6	+7.2%
112	Tanzania	6.8	+5.4%
113	Latvia	6.7	-6.1%
114	North Macedonia	6.6	+1.8%
115	Nepal	6.6	+1.9%
116	El Salvador	6.6	+3.9%
117	Albania	6.5	+0.7%
118	Cameroon	6.5	-4.6%
119	Luxembourg	6.4	-0.9%
120	Palestine	6.2	+11.5%
121	Laos	6.2	+23.9%
122	Armenia	6	+7.7%
123	Moldova	5.8	+0.3%
124	Afghanistan	5.7	+3.5%
125	Macao	5.6	+4.3%
126	Senegal	5.3	+16.1%
127	Cyprus	5	+1.1%
128	Brunei	4.4	+16.3%
129	Namibia	4.2	-3.3%
130	Nicaragua	3.9	+1%
131	Papua New Guinea	3.9	-1.5%
132	Jamaica	3.5	+23.4%
133	Mali	3.5	+10.9%
134	New Caledonia	3.3	-4.3%
135	Montenegro	3.2	+2.6%
136	Uganda	3.1	+2.1%
137	Mauritius	3.1	+3.6%
138	Gabon	3	+5.2%
139	Botswana	2.9	-15.2%
140	Yemen	2.6	-5.6%
141	Malta	2.5	+4.1%
142	Burkina Faso	2.5	+1.2%
143	Madagascar	2.3	+3.2%
144	Bhutan	2.2	-4.3%
145	Republic of the Congo	2.2	+32.1%
146	Bahamas	2	+0.5%
147	Suriname	1.8	+7.5%
148	Guinea	1.7	+5.5%
149	Guam	1.7	+0.5%
150	Mauritania	1.5	+7.6%
151	Malawi	1.5	-0.4%
152	Niger	1.4	+14.7%
153	Togo	1.3	+5.2%
154	Eswatini	1.3	+7.3%
155	Benin	1.3	+4.8%
156	Equatorial Guinea	1.3	+3.2%
157	Fiji	1	+3.2%
158	Barbados	1	-2.7%
159	Guyana	0.9	-0.7%
160	Belize	0.8	+45.2%
161	Aruba	0.8	+3.7%
162	Lesotho	0.8	+1%
163	Maldives	0.8	+3.8%
164	Rwanda	0.7	-2.3%
165	Cayman Islands	0.7	+6.6%
166	French Polynesia	0.7	+2.8%
167	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.6	+7.5%
168	Seychelles	0.5	+11.1%
169	Djibouti	0.5	+4.2%
170	Greenland	0.5	-7.2%
171	Burundi	0.5	+11.8%
172	Haiti	0.4	+2.1%
173	Bermuda	0.4	-8.3%
174	Timor-Leste	0.4	+14.3%
175	Saint Lucia	0.4	+2.4%
176	Gambia	0.4	+17%
177	Faroe Islands	0.4	+9.5%
178	Eritrea	0.4	+2.8%
179	Somalia	0.4	+0.3%
180	Cape Verde	0.3	+4.5%
181	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	+2.4%
182	Chad	0.3	+3.2%
183	Liberia	0.3	+2.3%
184	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.2	+1.1%
185	Grenada	0.2	+4.8%
186	Gibraltar	0.2	+2%
187	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	+1.5%
188	American Samoa	0.2	-0.4%
189	British Virgin Islands	0.2	+0.4%
190	Samoa	0.1	+5.8%
191	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	+3%
192	Central African Republic	0.1	0%
193	Dominica	0.1	+25%
194	Sierra Leone	0.1	-30.1%
195	Solomon Islands	0.1	+0.8%
196	Comoros	0.1	+10.1%
197	Vanuatu	0.1	+3.2%
198	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	+1%
199	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	+10.8%
200	Tonga	0.1	+7.2%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	+3.6%
202	Cook Islands	0	-6.5%
203	Nauru	0	+15.9%
204	Kiribati	0	+5.2%
205	Falkland Islands	0	+3.1%
206	Montserrat	0	-1.5%
207	Saint Helena	0	+5.8%
208	Niue	0	-3.3%
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 2019 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 7,096.7 TWh in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest electricity consumption?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2019.

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 2019 and are not ranked.

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