Countries by net electricity generation

China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2016, at 6,144.9 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 9.4 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest6,144.9China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median9.4210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2016

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	2016 TWh	Change on 2015
1	China	6,144.9	+5.6%
2	United States	4,096.4	+0.1%
3	India	1,382.9	+2.2%
4	Russia	1,068.9	+2.1%
5	Japan	1,063.2	+1.9%
6	Canada	655.8	+1.2%
7	Germany	626.9	+0.8%
8	Brazil	583.5	-0.4%
9	South Korea	548.8	+1.8%
10	France	538.2	-2.6%
11	Saudi Arabia	369	+2.4%
12	United Kingdom	328.6	-0.3%
13	Mexico	319.8	+3%
14	Iran	288.2	+2.7%
15	Italy	285.2	+2.2%
16	Türkiye	272.2	+4.9%
17	Spain	264.9	-2.4%
18	Taiwan	260.3	+2.3%
19	Australia	258.4	+2.5%
20	South Africa	248.1	+1.5%
21	Indonesia	230.6	-12.8%
22	Egypt	189.6	+1.7%
23	Thailand	188.1	+6.6%
24	Vietnam	180.5	+11.5%
25	Poland	165.5	+1%
26	Ukraine	161.2	+1.6%
27	Malaysia	156.8	+3.5%
28	Sweden	153.4	-4.1%
29	Norway	147.3	+3.8%
30	Argentina	146.7	+1.2%
31	United Arab Emirates	129.6	+1.8%
32	Pakistan	122.9	+9%
33	Venezuela	116.9	-8.3%
34	Netherlands	113.6	+4.7%
35	Kazakhstan	94.6	+3%
36	Philippines	90.8	+10.2%
37	Belgium	83.6	+25.9%
38	Iraq	81.9	+16%
39	Chile	78.8	+5.2%
40	Czechia	78.3	-2.8%
41	Colombia	76.2	-2.3%
42	Algeria	71	+3.2%
43	Kuwait	70.1	+2.6%
44	Bangladesh	69.1	+16.5%
45	Finland	67.5	+0.1%
46	Israel	67	+4.4%
47	Paraguay	63.9	+14.4%
48	Romania	63.5	-2.1%
49	Austria	63.4	+5.8%
50	Uzbekistan	58.7	+2.3%
51	Portugal	58.5	+15.3%
52	Switzerland	56.7	-7.8%
53	Greece	52.4	+6.4%
54	Singapore	51.7	+2.5%
55	Peru	51.6	+7%
56	Bulgaria	43.4	-8.8%
57	New Zealand	43.2	-0.9%
58	Qatar	42.4	+2%
59	Serbia	38.3	+3%
60	Hong Kong	38.1	+0.7%
61	Nigeria	36.5	+10.1%
62	Oman	34.2	+4.5%
63	Belarus	33.6	-1.5%
64	Libya	31.4	-16.2%
65	Morocco	30.7	+2.8%
66	Hungary	30.5	+5.3%
67	Ireland	30	+7.6%
68	Denmark	29.8	+4.7%
69	Bahrain	28.5	+0.1%
70	Ecuador	27.2	+5.2%
71	Slovakia	25.5	+1.3%
72	Laos	25.5	+57.7%
73	Azerbaijan	24.8	+1.1%
74	North Korea	23.8	+25.8%
75	Turkmenistan	22.5	0%
76	Puerto Rico	20.6	-1.3%
77	Cuba	20.6	+0.9%
78	Jordan	19.7	+3.3%
79	Tunisia	19.6	+0.7%
80	Lebanon	19.4	+4.1%
81	Mozambique	18.9	+2.6%
82	Dominican Republic	18.8	+4.3%
83	Iceland	18.2	-2.1%
84	Syria	18.2	+0.9%
85	Myanmar	18.1	+11.9%
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.7	+13.7%
87	Tajikistan	17.2	+0.5%
88	Slovenia	15.8	+9.7%
89	Sudan	14.6	+11.3%
90	Sri Lanka	14.4	+8.9%
91	Uruguay	13.9	+1.1%
92	Ghana	13.2	+13.2%
93	Kyrgyzstan	13.1	+1.8%
94	Ethiopia	12.5	+20.1%
95	Estonia	12.2	+19.9%
96	Croatia	12.2	+9.3%
97	Guatemala	11.9	+6.1%
98	Zambia	11.8	-12.9%
99	Georgia	11.5	+6.8%
100	Angola	11	+12.2%
101	Panama	10.9	+5.7%
102	Costa Rica	10.9	+0.9%
103	Côte d’Ivoire	10.2	+17.7%
104	Kenya	9.7	-1.4%
105	Trinidad and Tobago	9.4	-1.6%
106	Honduras	9.3	+3.3%
107	Bolivia	9.3	+3.1%
108	Democratic Republic of the Congo	9	+2.1%
109	Bhutan	7.9	+1.9%
110	Albania	7.8	+32%
111	Zimbabwe	7.2	-25.2%
112	Cameroon	7.1	-10.4%
113	Armenia	7.1	-6%
114	Tanzania	6.8	+4.3%
115	El Salvador	6.1	+0.4%
116	Moldova	5.9	-3.3%
117	Cambodia	5.7	+25.3%
118	Mongolia	5.7	+2.8%
119	North Macedonia	5.6	-0.5%
120	Latvia	5.6	+17.9%
121	Cyprus	4.9	+7.8%
122	Yemen	4.8	-16.7%
123	Senegal	4.8	+7.2%
124	Papua New Guinea	4.8	+5.2%
125	Nicaragua	4.6	+0.2%
126	Jamaica	4.5	+5.1%
127	Brunei	4.3	+1.7%
128	Nepal	4.2	+20.8%
129	Uganda	3.8	+6.2%
130	Lithuania	3.2	-14.5%
131	Montenegro	3.1	+4.6%
132	New Caledonia	3.1	+7.8%
133	Mauritius	3	+1.6%
134	Mali	3	+20.5%
135	Republic of the Congo	3	+6.6%
136	Botswana	2.7	-9.4%
137	Gabon	2.2	+3.9%
138	Malawi	2.2	-0.6%
139	Bahamas	2	-1.6%
140	Madagascar	1.9	+6.7%
141	Suriname	1.8	-2.3%
142	Guam	1.7	+1.3%
143	Guinea	1.6	+41.8%
144	Namibia	1.5	-6.2%
145	Equatorial Guinea	1.4	+7.6%
146	Afghanistan	1.2	+2.7%
147	Mauritania	1.2	+0.6%
148	Guyana	1.1	+7.6%
149	Haiti	1.1	+4.4%
150	Barbados	1.1	+1.6%
151	Burkina Faso	1	-2.3%
152	Macao	1	+3.9%
153	Aruba	1	-1.7%
154	Fiji	0.9	+1.4%
155	Togo	0.9	+114.6%
156	Malta	0.9	-34.3%
157	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.8	-0.2%
158	Niger	0.7	+30.3%
159	French Polynesia	0.7	+2.1%
160	Maldives	0.7	+8.5%
161	Cayman Islands	0.7	+4.4%
162	Bermuda	0.7	-1.3%
163	Rwanda	0.7	+24.7%
164	Palestine	0.5	+4.5%
165	Lesotho	0.5	-1.8%
166	Seychelles	0.5	+7.2%
167	Greenland	0.5	-5.8%
168	Cape Verde	0.4	+5.5%
169	Timor-Leste	0.4	+18%
170	Saint Lucia	0.4	+2.7%
171	Belize	0.4	+7.8%
172	Somalia	0.4	+1.9%
173	Eswatini	0.4	-7.6%
174	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	+1%
175	Faroe Islands	0.3	+0.8%
176	Chad	0.3	+4.3%
177	Liberia	0.3	-2.5%
178	Gambia	0.3	+5.5%
179	Benin	0.3	-16.4%
179	Eritrea	0.3	+1.8%
181	Luxembourg	0.3	-69.1%
182	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.2	+6.5%
183	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	+4.6%
184	Grenada	0.2	+6%
185	British Virgin Islands	0.2	+3.1%
186	Gibraltar	0.2	-4.5%
187	Sierra Leone	0.2	+22.5%
188	Burundi	0.2	+1.7%
189	Central African Republic	0.2	+0.6%
190	American Samoa	0.2	+5.6%
191	Dominica	0.2	+3.2%
192	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.2	+4.4%
193	Samoa	0.1	+11.3%
194	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	+4.1%
195	Solomon Islands	0.1	+8%
196	Djibouti	0.1	-50.5%
197	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	+34.5%
198	Vanuatu	0.1	+13.4%
199	Comoros	0.1	+10%
200	Tonga	0.1	+5.6%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	-0.4%
202	Cook Islands	0	+4.6%
203	Nauru	0	+1%
204	Kiribati	0	+5.4%
205	Falkland Islands	0	+10.5%
206	Montserrat	0	+5.5%
207	Saint Helena	0	+2.4%
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 2016 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 6,144.9 TWh in 2016, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest net electricity generation?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2016.

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 2016 and are not ranked.