Countries by net electricity generation

China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2015, at 5,820.8 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 9.3 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest5,820.8China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median9.3210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2015

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	2015 TWh	Change on 2014
1	China	5,820.8	+0.6%
2	United States	4,092.9	-0.3%
3	India	1,352.7	+1.9%
4	Russia	1,046.9	+0.2%
5	Japan	1,043.8	-2%
6	Canada	647.8	+0.2%
7	Germany	621.7	+3.5%
8	Brazil	585.7	-1.6%
9	France	552.5	+1.5%
10	South Korea	538.9	+0.5%
11	Saudi Arabia	360.3	+6.9%
12	United Kingdom	329.5	+0.3%
13	Mexico	310.6	+3%
14	Iran	280.8	+2.6%
15	Italy	279.2	+1.4%
16	Spain	271.5	+0.8%
17	Indonesia	264.5	+17.4%
18	Türkiye	259.4	+3.6%
19	Taiwan	254.4	-0.7%
20	Australia	252.2	+1.9%
21	South Africa	244.6	-2%
22	Egypt	186.4	+6.4%
23	Thailand	176.5	+1.3%
24	Poland	163.8	+3.7%
25	Vietnam	161.9	+17%
26	Sweden	160	+6.1%
27	Ukraine	158.7	-10.9%
28	Malaysia	151.6	+2.8%
29	Argentina	145	+4.7%
30	Norway	142	+1.4%
31	Venezuela	127.5	+10.7%
32	United Arab Emirates	127.4	+7.7%
33	Pakistan	112.8	+4.5%
34	Netherlands	108.6	+5.4%
35	Kazakhstan	91.8	-3.6%
36	Philippines	82.4	+6.7%
37	Czechia	80.6	-2.9%
38	Colombia	78	+10.7%
39	Chile	74.9	+6.7%
40	Iraq	70.6	+2.3%
41	Algeria	68.8	+7.1%
42	Kuwait	68.3	+4.8%
43	Finland	67.4	+1.2%
44	Belgium	66.4	-3.6%
45	Romania	64.9	+1.1%
46	Israel	64.2	+5.5%
47	Switzerland	61.5	-5.8%
48	Austria	60	+1.1%
49	Bangladesh	59.3	+5.8%
50	Uzbekistan	57.4	+3%
51	Paraguay	55.9	+0.8%
52	Portugal	50.8	-1.4%
53	Singapore	50.4	+2.1%
54	Greece	49.3	+3.1%
55	Peru	48.3	+5.5%
56	Bulgaria	47.6	+4%
57	New Zealand	43.6	+1.5%
58	Qatar	41.6	+7.3%
59	Hong Kong	37.9	-4.7%
60	Libya	37.5	-0.6%
61	Serbia	37.2	+12.2%
62	Belarus	34.1	-1.9%
63	Nigeria	33.2	+2.8%
64	Oman	32.8	+12.5%
65	Morocco	29.9	+6.9%
66	Hungary	28.9	+3.7%
67	Bahrain	28.5	+4.5%
68	Denmark	28.4	-9.4%
69	Ireland	27.9	+8.9%
70	Ecuador	25.8	+6.7%
71	Slovakia	25.2	-1%
72	Azerbaijan	24.6	-0.2%
73	Turkmenistan	22.5	+10.5%
74	Puerto Rico	20.9	-0.7%
75	Cuba	20.4	+4.9%
76	Tunisia	19.5	+2.7%
77	Jordan	19.1	+4.3%
78	North Korea	18.9	-11.9%
79	Lebanon	18.6	+3.8%
80	Iceland	18.6	+4.2%
81	Mozambique	18.4	+12.1%
82	Syria	18	-15.2%
83	Dominican Republic	18	+4.2%
84	Tajikistan	17.2	+6.2%
85	Myanmar	16.2	+12.6%
86	Laos	16.2	+6.9%
87	Bosnia and Herzegovina	15.6	-3.3%
88	Slovenia	14.4	-13.8%
89	Uruguay	13.7	+5.7%
90	Zambia	13.5	-6.9%
91	Sri Lanka	13.2	+2.8%
92	Sudan	13.1	+14.6%
93	Kyrgyzstan	12.9	-10.5%
94	Ghana	11.6	-11%
95	Guatemala	11.2	+5%
96	Croatia	11.1	-15.7%
97	Costa Rica	10.8	+5.8%
98	Georgia	10.7	+4.5%
99	Ethiopia	10.4	+9.6%
100	Panama	10.3	+10.8%
101	Estonia	10.2	-18.4%
102	Kenya	9.8	+6.8%
103	Angola	9.8	+2.3%
104	Zimbabwe	9.6	-2.7%
105	Trinidad and Tobago	9.6	+1.6%
106	Bolivia	9	+8.8%
107	Honduras	9	+8.5%
108	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.8	+1.1%
109	Côte d’Ivoire	8.7	+5.2%
110	Cameroon	7.9	+15.4%
111	Bhutan	7.7	+8.1%
112	Armenia	7.6	+0.4%
113	Tanzania	6.5	+4.4%
114	El Salvador	6.1	-3.1%
115	Moldova	6	+12.5%
116	Albania	5.9	+24.8%
117	Yemen	5.8	-24.7%
118	North Macedonia	5.6	+5%
119	Mongolia	5.5	+2.6%
120	Latvia	4.7	+7.1%
121	Nicaragua	4.6	+2.8%
122	Cambodia	4.6	+47.3%
123	Cyprus	4.5	+4.3%
124	Papua New Guinea	4.5	+6%
125	Senegal	4.4	+6.4%
126	Jamaica	4.3	+0.6%
127	Brunei	4.2	-6.8%
128	Lithuania	3.7	+16.5%
129	Uganda	3.6	+9.8%
130	Nepal	3.5	-8.9%
131	Montenegro	3	-5.4%
132	Mauritius	3	+2%
133	Botswana	3	+28.1%
134	New Caledonia	2.9	-3.6%
135	Republic of the Congo	2.8	+58.4%
136	Mali	2.5	-0.3%
137	Malawi	2.2	-0%
138	Gabon	2.1	+6.4%
139	Bahamas	2	+4%
140	Suriname	1.9	+1.4%
141	Madagascar	1.8	+3.9%
142	Guam	1.7	+0.3%
143	Namibia	1.6	+3.1%
144	Malta	1.3	-41.8%
145	Equatorial Guinea	1.3	+19.7%
146	Afghanistan	1.2	+2.1%
147	Mauritania	1.2	+12.7%
148	Guinea	1.1	+59.7%
149	Barbados	1	+1.2%
150	Haiti	1	+0.6%
151	Guyana	1	+1.9%
152	Burkina Faso	1	+14.9%
153	Aruba	1	+3.3%
154	Macao	1	+48.2%
155	Fiji	0.9	+2.8%
156	Luxembourg	0.8	-44.7%
157	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.8	+0.7%
158	French Polynesia	0.7	-0%
159	Bermuda	0.7	+2%
160	Cayman Islands	0.6	+3.1%
161	Maldives	0.6	+14.3%
162	Niger	0.5	+19.8%
163	Lesotho	0.5	+2.3%
164	Rwanda	0.5	+24.9%
165	Palestine	0.5	+51.5%
166	Greenland	0.5	+6.5%
167	Seychelles	0.5	+3.9%
168	Togo	0.4	+24.9%
169	Cape Verde	0.4	-1.7%
170	Saint Lucia	0.4	+0.8%
171	Eswatini	0.4	-21.6%
172	Belize	0.4	+3.5%
173	Somalia	0.4	+0.3%
174	Timor-Leste	0.4	+0.4%
175	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	+2.6%
176	Benin	0.3	-5.7%
177	Faroe Islands	0.3	+2.4%
178	Liberia	0.3	+3.3%
179	Chad	0.3	+1.4%
180	Gambia	0.3	+11.1%
181	Eritrea	0.3	-2.5%
182	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.2	+1.3%
183	Gibraltar	0.2	+13.1%
184	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	-1.8%
185	British Virgin Islands	0.2	+6.6%
186	Grenada	0.2	+2.7%
187	Djibouti	0.2	+76.9%
188	Burundi	0.2	-4.3%
189	Sierra Leone	0.2	+12.6%
190	Central African Republic	0.2	0%
191	American Samoa	0.2	+3.9%
192	Dominica	0.2	+2.6%
193	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	+3.3%
194	Samoa	0.1	+1.8%
195	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	+31%
196	Solomon Islands	0.1	+1.8%
197	Vanuatu	0.1	-4.1%
198	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	+105.9%
199	Tonga	0.1	+1.8%
200	Comoros	0.1	+0.7%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	+0.8%
202	Cook Islands	0	+0.6%
203	Nauru	0	+24.4%
204	Kiribati	0	+9.7%
205	Falkland Islands	0	0%
206	Montserrat	0	+1.6%
207	Saint Helena	0	-7.9%
208	Niue	0	+3.1%
209	Antarctica	0	+100%
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 2015 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 5,820.8 TWh in 2015, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest net electricity generation?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2015.

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 2015 and are not ranked.