Countries by net electricity generation

China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2013, at 5,424.1 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 8.2 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest5,424.1China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median8.2210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2013

TWh. Source: EIA, International Energy Statistics: electricity net generation, billion kilowatt hours (series INTL.2-12-BKWH.A) via Data Commons. Retrieved 2026-10-11.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2013 TWh	Change on 2012
1	China	5,424.1	+9.1%
2	United States	4,074.2	+0.5%
3	India	1,181.4	+13.7%
4	Japan	1,084.3	+1.1%
5	Russia	1,041.1	-1.2%
6	Canada	645	+4%
7	Germany	611.7	+1.7%
8	Brazil	570	+3.4%
9	France	554.6	+1.7%
10	South Korea	529.5	+1.3%
11	United Kingdom	348	-1.6%
12	Saudi Arabia	303.1	+4.7%
13	Mexico	297.3	-3.2%
14	Italy	285.2	-3.2%
15	Spain	275.6	-4.2%
16	Iran	261.6	+3.2%
17	South Africa	251.8	-1%
18	Australia	250.7	-0.2%
19	Taiwan	248.8	+0.7%
20	Türkiye	238.5	+0.2%
21	Indonesia	218.9	+11.6%
22	Ukraine	188.9	-2.4%
23	Thailand	169.7	+0.5%
24	Egypt	168.2	+2.3%
25	Poland	163.6	+1.4%
26	Sweden	150	-8.3%
27	Malaysia	139.4	+3.8%
28	Argentina	139.3	+2.9%
29	Venezuela	135.1	+5.3%
30	Norway	132.4	-9%
31	Vietnam	120.6	+2.5%
32	United Arab Emirates	111.7	+4.4%
33	Pakistan	104.9	+6.9%
34	Kazakhstan	103	+11.1%
35	Netherlands	101.4	-1.5%
36	Czechia	83.8	-0.9%
37	Belgium	79.2	+0.1%
38	Philippines	75.2	+3.2%
39	Colombia	73.5	+16.5%
40	Chile	72.8	+4.7%
41	Finland	69.6	+1.1%
42	Switzerland	64.1	+1%
43	Austria	62.5	-5.9%
44	Israel	61.3	-2.7%
45	Kuwait	61	-0.2%
46	Paraguay	60.5	+0.5%
47	Algeria	59.9	+4.3%
48	Iraq	58.9	+28%
49	Romania	57.5	-0.5%
50	Uzbekistan	54.6	+3.1%
51	Greece	54.3	-3.2%
52	Bangladesh	53.3	+9.7%
53	Portugal	50	+10.8%
54	Singapore	48	+2.2%
55	Peru	43.5	+8.8%
56	New Zealand	42.7	-2.3%
57	Bulgaria	41.8	-7.6%
58	Hong Kong	39	+1.2%
59	Serbia	38.9	+8.2%
60	Libya	37.9	+10.6%
61	Qatar	34.7	-0.1%
62	Denmark	33.7	+12.8%
63	Belarus	31.5	+2.3%
64	Nigeria	28.9	+0.6%
65	Hungary	28.8	-13.6%
66	Morocco	26.9	+1.7%
67	Slovakia	26.7	-0.2%
68	Oman	26.2	+4.9%
69	Bahrain	25.9	+4.6%
70	Ireland	25.3	-6.2%
71	Syria	25.2	-22%
72	Azerbaijan	23.3	+1.2%
73	Ecuador	23.2	+1.9%
74	North Korea	22	+2.8%
75	Puerto Rico	21.5	-3.7%
76	Cuba	19.2	+4.4%
77	Turkmenistan	18.9	+6.3%
78	Lebanon	18.8	+14.2%
79	Tunisia	18.1	+1.6%
80	Iceland	18	+4.1%
81	Dominican Republic	17.7	+4.9%
82	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.4	+23.8%
83	Jordan	17.3	+4%
84	Tajikistan	17.1	+0.8%
85	Slovenia	15.4	+1.6%
86	Laos	15.4	+18.8%
87	Mozambique	14.9	-0.7%
88	Kyrgyzstan	13.9	-7.4%
89	Croatia	13.7	+31.9%
90	Zambia	13.3	+7.5%
91	Estonia	13.3	+10.9%
92	Ghana	13	+7%
93	Myanmar	12.5	+11.7%
94	Sri Lanka	12	+1.2%
95	Uruguay	11.7	+10%
96	Sudan	10.4	+9%
97	Costa Rica	10.2	+0.6%
98	Guatemala	10.1	+8.3%
99	Georgia	10	+3.7%
100	Zimbabwe	9.5	+4.1%
101	Trinidad and Tobago	9.5	+4.1%
102	Panama	9	+4.1%
103	Ethiopia	8.7	+14.3%
104	Yemen	8.5	+20.2%
105	Honduras	8.2	+4.8%
106	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.2	+8.5%
107	Angola	8.2	+5.6%
108	Kenya	8.1	-1.2%
109	Bolivia	7.8	+5.4%
110	Côte d’Ivoire	7.6	+9.1%
111	Bhutan	7.5	+11.7%
112	Armenia	7.5	-4.2%
113	Albania	7	+47.3%
114	Cameroon	6.3	+16.5%
115	El Salvador	6.3	+0.8%
116	North Macedonia	6.1	-2.8%
117	Tanzania	6	+5.6%
118	Latvia	5.6	-3.7%
119	Mongolia	5	+4.2%
120	Moldova	4.5	-22.3%
121	Brunei	4.4	+12%
122	Cyprus	4.3	-9%
123	Jamaica	4.3	-0.4%
124	Nicaragua	4.2	+3.3%
125	Papua New Guinea	4	+7.3%
126	Montenegro	3.9	+38.7%
127	Senegal	3.8	+5.1%
128	Lithuania	3.8	-8.4%
129	Nepal	3.5	-0.9%
130	Uganda	3.1	+5.9%
131	Mauritius	2.9	+3%
132	New Caledonia	2.5	+9.6%
133	Malta	2.3	-2%
134	Mali	2.2	-4.9%
135	Gabon	2.1	-2.9%
136	Malawi	2.1	+0.3%
137	Bahamas	1.9	-0.7%
138	Cambodia	1.8	+23.2%
139	Suriname	1.8	+5.3%
140	Guam	1.7	-2.6%
141	Republic of the Congo	1.7	+0.5%
142	Madagascar	1.6	+5.8%
143	Luxembourg	1.4	-38.2%
144	Namibia	1.4	-19.2%
145	Afghanistan	1.1	+25.1%
146	Haiti	1.1	-4%
147	Barbados	1	-9.9%
148	Mauritania	1	+2.3%
149	Guyana	1	+1.1%
150	Aruba	0.9	+3.1%
151	Botswana	0.9	+163.8%
152	Fiji	0.9	+3.5%
153	Equatorial Guinea	0.8	+56.8%
154	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.8	-6%
155	Burkina Faso	0.7	+16.8%
156	French Polynesia	0.7	-5.9%
157	Bermuda	0.7	-3.3%
158	Guinea	0.7	-10.5%
159	Cayman Islands	0.6	+1.3%
160	Eswatini	0.6	+13.6%
161	Palestine	0.5	+16%
162	Lesotho	0.5	+6%
163	Greenland	0.5	+2.7%
164	Niger	0.4	+11%
165	Seychelles	0.4	+4.9%
166	Djibouti	0.4	+11%
167	Maldives	0.4	+4.1%
168	Macao	0.4	-26.4%
169	Cape Verde	0.4	+7.1%
170	Saint Lucia	0.4	+0.5%
171	Belize	0.4	-0.3%
172	Rwanda	0.4	-6.5%
173	Somalia	0.4	+2.9%
174	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	0%
175	Togo	0.3	+0.3%
176	Liberia	0.3	0%
177	Timor-Leste	0.3	+133.1%
178	Faroe Islands	0.3	0%
179	Eritrea	0.3	-13.6%
180	Chad	0.3	+14%
181	Gambia	0.3	+1.2%
182	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	+0.5%
183	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.2	-0.5%
184	Grenada	0.2	-1.5%
185	British Virgin Islands	0.2	-0.2%
186	Gibraltar	0.2	+7.4%
187	Burundi	0.2	+12.5%
188	Sierra Leone	0.2	-7.1%
189	American Samoa	0.2	+0.1%
190	Dominica	0.1	+0.6%
191	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	-0.8%
192	Central African Republic	0.1	-21.5%
193	Benin	0.1	+169.4%
194	Samoa	0.1	+5.5%
195	Solomon Islands	0.1	+7.2%
196	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	-7.3%
197	Vanuatu	0.1	+2.9%
198	Comoros	0.1	-5.4%
199	Tonga	0.1	+1.7%
200	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	+6.5%
201	Cook Islands	0	+0.9%
202	Kiribati	0	+2.4%
203	Nauru	0	+2.5%
204	Guinea-Bissau	0	-21.2%
205	Falkland Islands	0	0%
206	Montserrat	0	+3.4%
207	Saint Helena	0	+6.8%
208	Niue	0	0%
209	Antarctica	0	0%
210	Western Sahara	0	n/a

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About this ranking

Electricity generated in the year minus the electricity used by the power plants themselves, in terawatt hours (billion kilowatt hours), from the U.S. Energy Information Administration: for countries, its International Energy Statistics; for U.S. states, its survey of utility-scale power plants of 1 megawatt or more (Form EIA-923).

Countries and U.S. states. Generation is not consumption: exporters such as France and Norway generate more than they use. State figures leave out small-scale solar such as rooftop panels, which the country figure for the United States includes, so the states add up to about 2% less than the national total.

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 2013 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 generation, billion kilowatt hours (series INTL.2-12-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 net electricity generation?

China, with 5,424.1 TWh in 2013, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest net electricity generation?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2013.

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 generation, billion kilowatt hours (series INTL.2-12-BKWH.A). Retrieved 2026-10-11. 4 countries have no value for 2013 and are not ranked.