Countries by net electricity generation

China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2014, at 5,786.1 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 9 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest5,786.1China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median9210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2014

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	2014 TWh	Change on 2013
1	China	5,786.1	+6.7%
2	United States	4,104.8	+0.8%
3	India	1,327.4	+12.4%
4	Japan	1,065.3	-1.7%
5	Russia	1,044.9	+0.4%
6	Canada	646.2	+0.2%
7	Germany	600.6	-1.8%
8	Brazil	595.3	+4.4%
9	France	544.4	-1.8%
10	South Korea	536	+1.2%
11	Saudi Arabia	337.1	+11.2%
12	United Kingdom	328.4	-5.7%
13	Mexico	301.6	+1.4%
14	Italy	275.3	-3.5%
15	Iran	273.7	+4.6%
16	Spain	269.3	-2.3%
17	Taiwan	256.3	+3%
18	Türkiye	250.4	+5%
19	South Africa	249.5	-0.9%
20	Australia	247.5	-1.3%
21	Indonesia	225.2	+2.9%
22	Ukraine	178.2	-5.6%
23	Egypt	175.2	+4.2%
24	Thailand	174.3	+2.7%
25	Poland	158	-3.4%
26	Sweden	150.8	+0.5%
27	Malaysia	147.5	+5.8%
28	Norway	140	+5.7%
29	Argentina	138.5	-0.6%
30	Vietnam	138.4	+14.8%
31	United Arab Emirates	118.3	+6%
32	Venezuela	115.2	-14.7%
33	Pakistan	107.9	+2.9%
34	Netherlands	103	+1.6%
35	Kazakhstan	95.2	-7.6%
36	Czechia	83	-1%
37	Philippines	77.2	+2.6%
38	Colombia	70.5	-4.1%
39	Chile	70.2	-3.7%
40	Iraq	69	+17.2%
41	Belgium	68.9	-13.1%
42	Finland	66.6	-4.3%
43	Switzerland	65.3	+1.8%
44	Kuwait	65.1	+6.8%
45	Algeria	64.3	+7.3%
46	Romania	64.1	+11.5%
47	Israel	60.8	-0.8%
48	Austria	59.3	-5%
49	Bangladesh	56.1	+5.1%
50	Uzbekistan	55.8	+2.1%
51	Paraguay	55.4	-8.4%
52	Portugal	51.5	+2.9%
53	Singapore	49.4	+2.9%
54	Greece	47.8	-12%
55	Bulgaria	45.8	+9.5%
56	Peru	45.7	+5.1%
57	New Zealand	42.9	+0.5%
58	Hong Kong	39.7	+1.9%
59	Qatar	38.8	+11.7%
60	Libya	37.7	-0.5%
61	Belarus	34.7	+10.2%
62	Serbia	33.2	-14.7%
63	Nigeria	32.3	+11.6%
64	Denmark	31.4	-7.1%
65	Oman	29.1	+11%
66	Morocco	28	+4%
67	Hungary	27.9	-3.1%
68	Bahrain	27.3	+5.2%
69	Ireland	25.6	+1%
70	Slovakia	25.4	-4.8%
71	Azerbaijan	24.6	+5.9%
72	Ecuador	24.2	+4.5%
73	North Korea	21.5	-2.2%
74	Syria	21.3	-15.6%
75	Puerto Rico	21.1	-2%
76	Turkmenistan	20.4	+8.1%
77	Cuba	19.4	+1%
78	Tunisia	19	+4.6%
79	Jordan	18.3	+5.8%
80	Lebanon	18	-4.5%
81	Iceland	17.8	-1.1%
82	Dominican Republic	17.3	-2.5%
83	Slovenia	16.7	+8.5%
84	Mozambique	16.4	+10.3%
85	Tajikistan	16.2	-5.6%
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16.1	-7.3%
87	Laos	15.1	-1.5%
88	Zambia	14.5	+9.2%
89	Kyrgyzstan	14.4	+3.8%
90	Myanmar	14.4	+15.5%
91	Croatia	13.2	-4.1%
92	Ghana	13.1	+0.7%
93	Uruguay	13	+11.4%
94	Sri Lanka	12.8	+7%
95	Estonia	12.4	-6.2%
96	Sudan	11.4	+10.3%
97	Guatemala	10.6	+5.1%
98	Georgia	10.3	+3.1%
99	Costa Rica	10.2	-0.1%
100	Zimbabwe	9.9	+3.5%
101	Angola	9.6	+17.1%
102	Ethiopia	9.5	+9.5%
103	Trinidad and Tobago	9.4	-0.9%
104	Panama	9.3	+3.7%
105	Kenya	9.2	+13.8%
106	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.7	+7.2%
107	Honduras	8.3	+1%
108	Bolivia	8.3	+6%
109	Côte d’Ivoire	8.3	+8.3%
110	Yemen	7.7	-10%
111	Armenia	7.5	+0.5%
112	Bhutan	7.2	-5.1%
113	Cameroon	6.9	+8.5%
114	El Salvador	6.3	-0%
115	Tanzania	6.3	+4.6%
116	Moldova	5.4	+19.3%
117	Mongolia	5.4	+7.1%
118	North Macedonia	5.4	-11.8%
119	Albania	4.7	-32.1%
120	Brunei	4.5	+2.4%
121	Nicaragua	4.5	+7%
122	Latvia	4.4	-21.4%
123	Cyprus	4.3	+1.3%
124	Papua New Guinea	4.3	+6.7%
125	Jamaica	4.2	-1%
126	Senegal	4.2	+9.9%
127	Nepal	3.8	+8.5%
128	Uganda	3.2	+5.5%
129	Lithuania	3.2	-14.8%
130	Montenegro	3.2	-19.6%
131	Cambodia	3.1	+72.6%
132	New Caledonia	3	+20.2%
133	Mauritius	2.9	+1.9%
134	Mali	2.5	+14.4%
135	Botswana	2.3	+150.2%
136	Malta	2.2	-0.3%
137	Malawi	2.2	+5.4%
138	Gabon	2	-4.9%
139	Bahamas	1.9	+2%
140	Suriname	1.8	+4.1%
141	Republic of the Congo	1.8	+1.8%
142	Madagascar	1.7	+3.8%
143	Guam	1.7	-1.9%
144	Namibia	1.5	+13.2%
145	Luxembourg	1.5	+3.5%
146	Afghanistan	1.2	+5%
147	Equatorial Guinea	1.1	+27.7%
148	Haiti	1	-2.1%
149	Barbados	1	+1%
149	Mauritania	1	+4.9%
151	Guyana	1	+2.4%
152	Aruba	0.9	-0.6%
153	Fiji	0.9	+2.4%
154	Burkina Faso	0.9	+18.8%
155	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.8	-5.8%
156	Guinea	0.7	+9.1%
157	French Polynesia	0.7	-0.5%
158	Bermuda	0.7	-2.4%
159	Macao	0.6	+55.2%
160	Cayman Islands	0.6	+1%
161	Maldives	0.5	+27.8%
162	Lesotho	0.5	+1.2%
163	Eswatini	0.5	-17.1%
164	Greenland	0.5	+3.2%
165	Niger	0.4	+1.4%
166	Seychelles	0.4	+2.4%
167	Cape Verde	0.4	+5.9%
168	Rwanda	0.4	+13.9%
169	Saint Lucia	0.4	-0.9%
170	Somalia	0.4	0%
171	Togo	0.4	+9%
172	Benin	0.4	+165.2%
172	Timor-Leste	0.4	+18.2%
174	Belize	0.3	-5.9%
175	Palestine	0.3	-36.7%
176	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	+1.8%
177	Faroe Islands	0.3	+5.2%
178	Liberia	0.3	0%
179	Chad	0.3	+6.1%
180	Eritrea	0.3	-0.4%
181	Gambia	0.3	+1.1%
182	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.2	+8.6%
183	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	0%
184	Grenada	0.2	+2%
185	British Virgin Islands	0.2	+0.3%
186	Gibraltar	0.2	+4.8%
187	Burundi	0.2	+8.8%
188	Central African Republic	0.2	+22.4%
189	American Samoa	0.2	-0.6%
190	Sierra Leone	0.2	-8%
191	Dominica	0.1	+2.6%
192	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	-0.1%
193	Samoa	0.1	+10.8%
194	Djibouti	0.1	-76.7%
195	Solomon Islands	0.1	+5.9%
196	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	+9.6%
197	Vanuatu	0.1	-0.3%
198	Tonga	0.1	+3.3%
199	Comoros	0.1	-6.2%
200	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	+1.7%
201	Cook Islands	0	-2.1%
202	Guinea-Bissau	0	+24.8%
203	Kiribati	0	+3.1%
204	Nauru	0	+3.3%
205	Falkland Islands	0	+1.1%
206	Montserrat	0	+2.4%
207	Saint Helena	0	-5.3%
208	Niue	0	-3%
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 2014 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 5,786.1 TWh in 2014, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest net electricity generation?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2014.

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 2014 and are not ranked.