Countries by electricity consumption

China had the highest electricity consumption of 210 countries in 2020, at 7,385.5 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 9.1 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest7,385.5China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median9.1210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2020

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	2020 TWh	Change on 2019
1	China	7,385.5	+4.1%
2	United States	3,897.9	-2.3%
3	India	1,247.8	-1.1%
4	Russia	972.5	-0.7%
5	Japan	930.8	-4.4%
6	South Korea	551.7	+0.6%
7	Brazil	546.5	-0.8%
8	Canada	542.8	-0.7%
9	Germany	503.8	-3.3%
10	France	425.8	-5%
11	Saudi Arabia	358.2	+0.4%
12	Iran	300.5	+5%
13	United Kingdom	296.9	-5%
14	Italy	285.8	-5.8%
15	Mexico	284	-4.9%
16	Türkiye	273.7	+2%
17	Indonesia	268.4	+4.2%
18	Taiwan	266.6	+2%
19	Australia	254.4	-2%
20	Spain	231.3	-6.5%
21	Vietnam	225.9	+1.4%
22	South Africa	207	-5.4%
23	Thailand	193.7	-3.7%
24	Egypt	169	+5.1%
25	Malaysia	162.2	-1.9%
26	Poland	159.7	-2.7%
27	United Arab Emirates	130.3	-0.9%
28	Ukraine	129.9	+1.3%
29	Sweden	127.7	-0.9%
30	Norway	127	+1.7%
31	Argentina	126.4	-1.6%
32	Pakistan	123.3	+11.4%
33	Netherlands	114.7	-0.8%
34	Kazakhstan	103.4	+6.9%
35	Philippines	92	-4.2%
36	Belgium	83.4	-3.6%
37	Bangladesh	82.4	+0.1%
38	Chile	81.2	-0.3%
39	Finland	80	-5.3%
40	Colombia	73.3	-0.2%
41	Algeria	70.3	-1.8%
42	Kuwait	68	-0.5%
43	Austria	66.9	-2.2%
44	Czechia	63.1	-4.9%
45	Israel	62.3	-0.8%
46	Uzbekistan	59.1	-1.8%
47	Iraq	57.1	+3.8%
48	Switzerland	56.3	+2.5%
49	Venezuela	55	-4.9%
50	Singapore	52.9	-1.9%
51	Romania	49.9	-4%
52	Greece	48.9	-8%
53	Portugal	48	-2.9%
54	Peru	46.6	-7.7%
55	Qatar	46.6	-1.3%
56	Hong Kong	43.4	-3.5%
57	Hungary	41.6	-0.2%
58	New Zealand	40.6	-0.8%
59	Belarus	35.3	-0.3%
60	Oman	34.9	-1.2%
61	Bulgaria	33.2	-3%
62	Denmark	33.1	-0.4%
63	Morocco	32.1	-1.7%
64	Serbia	31.9	-1%
65	Bahrain	31.6	-2.5%
66	Nigeria	29.7	+1.9%
67	Ireland	28.7	-0.6%
68	Slovakia	26	-3.4%
69	Ecuador	25.8	-2.2%
70	Libya	24.8	-12.7%
71	Azerbaijan	22.7	+1.3%
72	North Korea	20.3	+0.9%
73	Turkmenistan	19.7	+19.9%
74	Jordan	18.6	+1.1%
75	Iceland	18.4	-2.5%
76	Puerto Rico	18	-0.4%
77	Syria	17.3	-5.5%
78	Tunisia	17	-6.4%
79	Dominican Republic	17	-8.5%
80	Ghana	16.7	+12.8%
81	Lebanon	16.4	-15.8%
82	Tajikistan	16.1	+2.7%
83	Cuba	15.6	-9.6%
84	Croatia	15.5	-6.5%
85	Sri Lanka	15.2	-0.5%
86	Angola	15	+6.3%
87	Paraguay	14.4	+7.7%
88	Myanmar	14.2	-2.8%
89	Sudan	14.2	+9.1%
90	Slovenia	13.6	-4.8%
91	Mozambique	12.8	-6.4%
92	Kyrgyzstan	12.7	+2.1%
93	Democratic Republic of the Congo	12.5	+7.2%
94	Zambia	11.9	-7.9%
95	Uruguay	11.8	+0.5%
96	Georgia	11.7	-4.8%
97	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.6	-6.8%
98	Cambodia	11.5	+6.8%
99	Lithuania	11.2	-1.7%
100	Ethiopia	10.9	-0.2%
101	Guatemala	10.8	+7.2%
102	Costa Rica	10.2	-1.8%
103	Bolivia	9.4	-0.9%
104	Estonia	9.3	+0.8%
105	Panama	9.3	-7.2%
106	Kenya	9	+0.2%
107	Trinidad and Tobago	8.8	+0.4%
108	Côte d’Ivoire	8.4	+10.2%
109	Laos	7.7	+24.2%
110	Nepal	7.4	+12.7%
111	Mongolia	7.3	-5.5%
112	Zimbabwe	7.2	-9.7%
113	Cameroon	7	+7.7%
114	Honduras	6.9	-11%
115	Tanzania	6.8	0%
116	Latvia	6.8	+0.5%
117	Albania	6.7	+1.9%
118	North Macedonia	6.6	-1.3%
119	Palestine	6.5	+4.2%
120	El Salvador	6.2	-6.1%
121	Luxembourg	6.1	-4.5%
122	Bhutan	6.1	+171.9%
123	Armenia	6.1	+1.3%
124	Moldova	5.8	+0.4%
125	Afghanistan	5.7	-0.7%
126	Senegal	5.5	+3.3%
127	Brunei	5.3	+19.4%
128	Macao	5.3	-6.6%
129	Cyprus	4.6	-7%
130	Namibia	3.9	-6.5%
131	Nicaragua	3.8	-2.7%
132	Papua New Guinea	3.7	-4%
133	Mali	3.7	+6.2%
134	Botswana	3.6	+23.1%
135	Uganda	3.3	+4.3%
136	New Caledonia	3.2	-3.3%
137	Jamaica	3.1	-9.9%
138	Gabon	3	+2.1%
139	Montenegro	3	-6.9%
140	Burkina Faso	2.8	+11%
141	Mauritius	2.7	-10.3%
142	Malta	2.4	-4.3%
143	Yemen	2.3	-9.7%
144	Republic of the Congo	2.3	+2.6%
145	Guinea	2.1	+19.9%
146	Madagascar	2.1	-12.2%
147	Bahamas	2	+0.5%
148	Suriname	1.8	+0.8%
149	Mauritania	1.6	+5.5%
150	Guam	1.6	-2.6%
151	Malawi	1.5	+1.3%
152	Niger	1.5	+2.7%
153	Togo	1.3	-0.8%
154	Benin	1.3	+2.3%
155	Equatorial Guinea	1.3	+1.2%
156	Eswatini	1.3	-6%
157	Barbados	1	+1.3%
158	Fiji	1	-5.6%
159	Guyana	0.9	+1.8%
160	Aruba	0.8	+0.7%
161	Maldives	0.8	+1.2%
162	Lesotho	0.8	-2.8%
163	Rwanda	0.8	+6.3%
164	Cayman Islands	0.7	-3.2%
165	French Polynesia	0.6	-4.3%
166	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.6	-1.9%
167	Seychelles	0.5	+3.4%
168	Belize	0.5	-38.3%
169	Greenland	0.5	+7%
170	Djibouti	0.5	+3.5%
171	Burundi	0.4	-9.2%
172	Bermuda	0.4	-2.1%
173	Haiti	0.4	-3.2%
174	Timor-Leste	0.4	-2.3%
175	Gambia	0.4	+5%
176	Faroe Islands	0.4	+5.7%
177	Eritrea	0.4	+2.6%
178	Somalia	0.4	+1.2%
179	Saint Lucia	0.4	-9.8%
180	Cape Verde	0.3	-6.5%
181	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	-0.1%
182	Chad	0.3	+0.4%
183	Liberia	0.3	+7.2%
184	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.2	-2.1%
185	Grenada	0.2	-7.4%
186	Gibraltar	0.2	-2.6%
187	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	-5.9%
188	Samoa	0.2	+13.5%
189	American Samoa	0.2	+1%
190	British Virgin Islands	0.2	0%
191	Central African Republic	0.1	0%
191	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	-1.4%
193	Dominica	0.1	+2.7%
194	Sierra Leone	0.1	-3.4%
195	Comoros	0.1	+19.4%
196	Solomon Islands	0.1	-0.6%
197	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	-0.6%
198	Vanuatu	0.1	-5.9%
199	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	-4%
200	Tonga	0.1	+2.4%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	-1%
202	Cook Islands	0	-13.6%
203	Nauru	0	-2.7%
204	Kiribati	0	+4.3%
205	Falkland Islands	0	-3.6%
206	Montserrat	0	-0.8%
207	Saint Helena	0	-8.2%
208	Niue	0	+3.4%
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 2020 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 7,385.5 TWh in 2020, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest electricity consumption?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2020.

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 2020 and are not ranked.

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