Countries by electricity consumption

China had the highest electricity consumption of 210 countries in 2021, at 7,980.9 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 9.9 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest7,980.9China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median9.9210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2021

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	2021 TWh	Change on 2020
1	China	7,980.9	+8.1%
2	United States	3,994	+2.5%
3	India	1,343.2	+7.6%
4	Russia	1,028.4	+5.7%
5	Japan	953.1	+2.4%
6	South Korea	574.8	+4.2%
7	Brazil	569.4	+4.2%
8	Canada	533.2	-1.8%
9	Germany	523.8	+4%
10	France	444.9	+4.5%
11	Saudi Arabia	371.4	+3.7%
12	Mexico	332.3	+17%
13	Iran	312.4	+3.9%
14	Italy	300.9	+5.3%
15	United Kingdom	297.7	+0.3%
16	Türkiye	291.8	+6.6%
17	Indonesia	284.6	+6%
18	Taiwan	278.2	+4.4%
19	Australia	257.1	+1%
20	Vietnam	237.8	+5.2%
21	Spain	236.9	+2.4%
22	South Africa	210.6	+1.7%
23	Thailand	197.3	+1.9%
24	Malaysia	169.2	+4.3%
25	Poland	161.8	+1.3%
26	Egypt	160.6	-4.9%
27	United Arab Emirates	141.9	+9%
28	Ukraine	140	+7.8%
29	Pakistan	135.4	+9.8%
30	Norway	132.7	+4.5%
31	Argentina	131.7	+4.2%
32	Sweden	130.5	+2.2%
33	Netherlands	116.3	+1.4%
34	Kazakhstan	105.1	+1.6%
35	Bangladesh	96.3	+16.8%
36	Philippines	95.8	+4.1%
37	Belgium	85.8	+2.9%
38	Finland	85.6	+7.1%
39	Chile	83.9	+3.3%
40	Colombia	77.8	+6.2%
41	Algeria	75.5	+7.3%
42	Kuwait	73.6	+8.2%
43	Uzbekistan	72.6	+22.9%
44	Austria	71.4	+6.7%
45	Iraq	64.6	+13.1%
46	Czechia	63.4	+0.5%
47	Israel	63.2	+1.3%
48	Switzerland	58.5	+4%
49	Venezuela	57	+3.7%
50	Singapore	55.7	+5.4%
51	Greece	50.9	+4.2%
52	Romania	50.9	+2%
53	Peru	50.3	+7.9%
54	Qatar	48.9	+4.8%
55	Portugal	48.6	+1.1%
56	Hong Kong	45	+3.7%
57	Hungary	44	+5.7%
58	New Zealand	40.6	+0.2%
59	Belarus	38.1	+7.9%
60	Oman	37.7	+8.1%
61	Denmark	35.6	+7.6%
62	Bulgaria	34.5	+4.1%
63	Morocco	33.7	+5%
64	Serbia	33.4	+4.6%
65	Bahrain	32.9	+4.3%
66	Nigeria	30.7	+3.4%
67	Ireland	29.7	+3.8%
68	Slovakia	28.9	+11.1%
69	Libya	28.6	+15.1%
70	Ecuador	27.3	+6%
71	Azerbaijan	24.1	+6.4%
72	Turkmenistan	22.1	+12.5%
73	North Korea	21.7	+6.7%
74	Jordan	19.2	+3.3%
75	Dominican Republic	19.1	+12.8%
76	Iceland	18.8	+2.6%
77	Tunisia	18.3	+7.4%
78	Puerto Rico	18.2	+1.2%
79	Ghana	17.7	+5.7%
80	Syria	16.8	-2.8%
81	Croatia	16.7	+8%
82	Sri Lanka	15.9	+5%
83	Myanmar	15.7	+10.6%
84	Angola	15.1	+1.1%
85	Sudan	14.8	+4%
86	Democratic Republic of the Congo	14.4	+15.4%
87	Paraguay	14.3	-1%
88	Tajikistan	14.2	-11.4%
89	Cuba	14.2	-9%
90	Slovenia	14.1	+3.4%
91	Guatemala	13.8	+27.8%
92	Kyrgyzstan	13.5	+6.5%
93	Georgia	13.4	+14%
94	Zambia	13.3	+11.5%
95	Mozambique	13	+1%
96	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12.5	+7.5%
97	Cambodia	12.2	+6.2%
98	Uruguay	12	+1.4%
99	Lithuania	11.8	+5.2%
100	Bhutan	11.6	+89.5%
101	Costa Rica	10.7	+4.9%
102	Ethiopia	10.5	-3.5%
103	Panama	10.5	+13%
104	Lebanon	10	-38.7%
105	Bolivia	9.9	+5.6%
106	Kenya	9.8	+8.9%
107	Laos	9.6	+24.6%
108	Côte d’Ivoire	9.1	+7.9%
109	Estonia	9	-3.8%
110	Nepal	9	+20.8%
111	Trinidad and Tobago	8.8	+0.4%
112	Zimbabwe	8.6	+18%
113	Mongolia	8.2	+12.3%
114	Honduras	8	+16.8%
115	Tanzania	7.6	+11.3%
116	Albania	7	+5.6%
117	Latvia	7	+3.7%
118	North Macedonia	6.8	+4.3%
119	El Salvador	6.8	+10.5%
120	Palestine	6.7	+3.2%
121	Armenia	6.6	+8.2%
122	Luxembourg	6.4	+4.5%
123	Cameroon	6.3	-9.1%
124	Moldova	6.2	+7.6%
125	Afghanistan	6.1	+7.3%
126	Senegal	6	+8.1%
127	Macao	5.5	+4.9%
128	Brunei	5.2	-2.1%
129	Cyprus	4.9	+6.1%
130	Papua New Guinea	4.3	+13.5%
131	Nicaragua	4.1	+7.6%
132	Uganda	3.9	+17.8%
133	Mali	3.8	+3.2%
134	Botswana	3.6	+0.4%
135	Namibia	3.6	-8.6%
136	Guinea	3.2	+54.8%
137	Jamaica	3.2	+1.4%
138	Montenegro	3.1	+4.4%
139	Burkina Faso	3	+8%
140	Gabon	2.9	-3.1%
141	New Caledonia	2.8	-10.3%
142	Mauritius	2.8	+2.3%
143	Malta	2.6	+5.3%
144	Yemen	2.5	+5.9%
145	Madagascar	2.4	+16.4%
146	Republic of the Congo	2.3	-0.7%
147	Bahamas	2	+0.7%
148	Suriname	1.9	+1.9%
149	Guam	1.7	+2.2%
150	Malawi	1.6	+4.6%
151	Benin	1.5	+18.1%
152	Niger	1.5	+3.2%
153	Mauritania	1.5	-8.5%
154	Equatorial Guinea	1.3	+0.3%
155	Eswatini	1.3	-0.1%
156	Togo	1.2	-6.6%
157	Barbados	1	-0.2%
158	Fiji	1	-1.9%
159	Guyana	0.9	+0.2%
160	Haiti	0.9	+115.2%
161	Lesotho	0.9	+9.6%
162	Aruba	0.8	+0.5%
163	Rwanda	0.8	+8%
164	Maldives	0.8	+1.7%
165	Cayman Islands	0.7	+2%
166	French Polynesia	0.6	-1%
167	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.6	+1.4%
168	Djibouti	0.6	+15.6%
169	Seychelles	0.6	+1.3%
170	Belize	0.5	-1.8%
171	Greenland	0.5	-0.8%
172	Burundi	0.4	+6.9%
173	Bermuda	0.4	+1.1%
174	Timor-Leste	0.4	+1.8%
175	Faroe Islands	0.4	+6.7%
176	Gambia	0.4	+3.7%
177	Eritrea	0.4	+1.9%
178	Saint Lucia	0.4	+4.6%
179	Somalia	0.4	+1.5%
180	Cape Verde	0.3	+4.7%
181	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	+2.1%
182	Chad	0.3	+1.3%
183	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.3	+4.4%
184	Gibraltar	0.2	+8.9%
185	Grenada	0.2	+3.2%
186	Liberia	0.2	-29.4%
187	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	-0.6%
188	British Virgin Islands	0.2	+4.5%
189	American Samoa	0.2	+0.5%
190	Samoa	0.2	-6%
191	Central African Republic	0.1	+0.1%
192	Dominica	0.1	+1.3%
193	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	-6.7%
194	Sierra Leone	0.1	-0.7%
195	Comoros	0.1	+0.9%
196	Solomon Islands	0.1	-1.2%
197	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	0%
198	Vanuatu	0.1	-1.2%
199	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	-6.3%
200	Tonga	0.1	-1.3%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	+0.2%
202	Cook Islands	0	+7.8%
203	Nauru	0	+15.4%
204	Kiribati	0	-7.2%
205	Falkland Islands	0	+6.9%
206	Montserrat	0	+21.4%
207	Saint Helena	0	+3.3%
208	Niue	0	-0.7%
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 2021 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 7,980.9 TWh in 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest electricity consumption?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2021.

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 2021 and are not ranked.

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