Countries by net electricity generation

China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2017, at 6,655.6 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 9.5 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest6,655.6China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median9.5210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2017

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	2017 TWh	Change on 2016
1	China	6,655.6	+8.3%
2	United States	4,059.4	-0.9%
3	India	1,433.5	+3.7%
4	Russia	1,071.9	+0.3%
5	Japan	1,063.2	0%
6	Canada	648.8	-1.1%
7	Germany	631.4	+0.7%
8	Brazil	594.7	+1.9%
9	South Korea	552.7	+0.7%
10	France	535.8	-0.4%
11	Saudi Arabia	379.4	+2.8%
12	United Kingdom	327.6	-0.3%
13	Mexico	322.5	+0.8%
14	Iran	306.7	+6.4%
15	Türkiye	294.8	+8.3%
16	Italy	291.4	+2.2%
17	Spain	267.4	+0.9%
18	Taiwan	266.1	+2.2%
19	Indonesia	261.5	+13.4%
20	Australia	259.1	+0.3%
21	South Africa	250	+0.8%
22	Egypt	196.8	+3.8%
23	Vietnam	196	+8.6%
24	Thailand	182	-3.3%
25	Poland	169.3	+2.3%
26	Malaysia	164.4	+4.8%
27	Sweden	161.7	+5.4%
28	Ukraine	152.2	-5.6%
29	Norway	147.4	+0.1%
30	Argentina	145.4	-0.9%
31	United Arab Emirates	134.6	+3.8%
32	Pakistan	130.4	+6.1%
33	Netherlands	115.5	+1.7%
34	Venezuela	103.8	-11.2%
35	Kazakhstan	103.1	+9%
36	Philippines	94.4	+3.9%
37	Iraq	93.6	+14.2%
38	Belgium	84.6	+1.2%
39	Czechia	81.7	+4.3%
40	Chile	78.9	+0.2%
41	Colombia	78.5	+3%
42	Algeria	76.1	+7.1%
43	Bangladesh	73.5	+6.3%
44	Kuwait	68.9	-1.7%
45	Israel	67.4	+0.6%
46	Finland	66.1	-1.9%
47	Austria	65.5	+3.2%
48	Romania	62.9	-1%
49	Uzbekistan	60.8	+3.6%
50	Paraguay	59.8	-6.4%
51	Portugal	56.9	-2.7%
52	Switzerland	55.4	-2.2%
53	Greece	53.1	+1.2%
54	Peru	52.7	+2.1%
55	Singapore	52.4	+1.4%
56	Qatar	45.7	+7.7%
57	Bulgaria	43.8	+1%
58	New Zealand	43.7	+1.2%
59	Hong Kong	36.9	-3.1%
60	Oman	36.1	+5.6%
61	Serbia	36.1	-5.8%
62	Belarus	34.5	+2.8%
63	Libya	33.3	+5.9%
64	Nigeria	32.2	-11.8%
65	Morocco	31.8	+3.4%
66	Hungary	31.7	+3.9%
67	Laos	31.1	+21.8%
68	Ireland	30.5	+1.7%
69	Denmark	30.5	+2.3%
70	Bahrain	29.2	+2.5%
71	Ecuador	27.8	+2.5%
72	Slovakia	26.1	+2.3%
73	Azerbaijan	24.2	-2.5%
74	Turkmenistan	23.9	+6%
75	North Korea	23.4	-1.6%
76	Lebanon	21.2	+9.5%
77	Myanmar	21	+16.1%
78	Jordan	20.8	+5.6%
79	Tunisia	20.6	+4.9%
80	Cuba	20.6	+0.1%
81	Dominican Republic	19.2	+2.2%
82	Iceland	19.1	+5%
83	Syria	18.4	+1.5%
84	Tajikistan	18.1	+5.1%
85	Mozambique	17.6	-6.5%
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16.4	-7.6%
87	Puerto Rico	16.4	-20.7%
88	Sudan	15.7	+7.7%
89	Slovenia	15.6	-1.2%
90	Kyrgyzstan	15.4	+16.9%
91	Sri Lanka	14.9	+3.7%
92	Zambia	14.6	+23.6%
93	Uruguay	14.4	+3.4%
94	Ghana	13.3	+1%
95	Estonia	13.2	+8.1%
96	Ethiopia	13.1	+5.3%
97	Guatemala	12.3	+4%
98	Georgia	11.4	-0.4%
99	Croatia	11.4	-6.1%
100	Costa Rica	11.3	+3.9%
101	Panama	11	+1.4%
102	Kenya	10.8	+12%
103	Angola	10.8	-1.5%
104	Côte d’Ivoire	10.1	-1.3%
105	Bolivia	9.6	+3.3%
106	Democratic Republic of the Congo	9.4	+4.2%
107	Honduras	9.4	+0.9%
108	Trinidad and Tobago	9.3	-1%
109	Cameroon	8	+13%
110	Bhutan	7.7	-2.9%
111	Zimbabwe	7.6	+5.3%
112	Armenia	7.5	+6%
113	Tanzania	7.1	+3.8%
114	Cambodia	6.8	+19.4%
115	Latvia	6.6	+17.5%
116	Mongolia	6	+6.3%
117	North Macedonia	5.6	-0.4%
118	El Salvador	5.6	-8.9%
119	Cyprus	5	+2.4%
120	Moldova	5	-15.2%
121	Senegal	4.7	-1%
122	Nepal	4.6	+9.4%
123	Albania	4.5	-41.9%
124	Nicaragua	4.5	-1.4%
125	Jamaica	4.4	-2.3%
126	Papua New Guinea	4.3	-8.8%
127	Brunei	4.2	-2.6%
128	Yemen	4.1	-15.6%
129	Uganda	3.8	+0.1%
130	Mali	3.4	+14.2%
131	New Caledonia	3.2	+3.2%
132	Lithuania	3.1	-2.3%
133	Mauritius	3.1	+2.5%
134	Botswana	3	+12.4%
135	Republic of the Congo	3	+0.4%
136	Montenegro	2.5	-21%
137	Gabon	2.2	+1.9%
138	Bahamas	2	+1.1%
139	Madagascar	2	+4.4%
140	Malawi	1.9	-10.9%
141	Suriname	1.8	-0.8%
142	Guinea	1.8	+9.7%
143	Namibia	1.8	+19.8%
144	Guam	1.8	+2%
145	Malta	1.6	+87.7%
146	Macao	1.5	+48.4%
147	Mauritania	1.4	+16.6%
148	Equatorial Guinea	1.3	-4.6%
149	Afghanistan	1.3	+4.1%
150	Guyana	1.1	+1.9%
151	Burkina Faso	1.1	+12.8%
152	Haiti	1.1	-2.7%
153	Barbados	1	-1.8%
154	Fiji	1	+7.4%
155	Aruba	1	+2.8%
156	Togo	0.8	-14.9%
157	Maldives	0.7	+8%
158	French Polynesia	0.7	-1.4%
159	Cayman Islands	0.7	+1.7%
160	Bermuda	0.7	+1.4%
161	Rwanda	0.6	-2.6%
162	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.6	-23.3%
163	Niger	0.6	-19.1%
164	Palestine	0.5	+1.7%
165	Lesotho	0.5	+3.2%
166	Seychelles	0.5	+3.5%
167	Greenland	0.5	+5.6%
168	Eswatini	0.4	+22.3%
169	Timor-Leste	0.4	+3.5%
170	Cape Verde	0.4	-4.2%
171	Belize	0.4	+3.6%
172	Saint Lucia	0.4	+2.3%
173	Luxembourg	0.4	+58.9%
174	Somalia	0.4	+1.4%
175	Liberia	0.4	+17.3%
176	Antigua and Barbuda	0.4	+0.3%
177	Eritrea	0.3	+20.9%
178	Faroe Islands	0.3	+5.5%
179	Benin	0.3	+19.7%
180	Chad	0.3	+1.6%
181	Gambia	0.3	+5%
182	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.3	+19.6%
183	Burundi	0.3	+53%
184	Grenada	0.2	+4%
185	Sierra Leone	0.2	+8.6%
186	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	+0.5%
187	Gibraltar	0.2	-0.2%
188	British Virgin Islands	0.2	-20.3%
189	American Samoa	0.2	-1.8%
190	Samoa	0.2	+10.7%
191	Central African Republic	0.2	-11.2%
192	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	-2.2%
193	Dominica	0.1	-16.5%
194	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	+2.8%
195	Solomon Islands	0.1	+3.2%
196	Comoros	0.1	+51.2%
197	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	+0.4%
198	Vanuatu	0.1	+1%
199	Tonga	0.1	+11.6%
200	Djibouti	0.1	-33%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	+0.4%
202	Cook Islands	0	+10.2%
203	Nauru	0	+9.9%
204	Kiribati	0	0%
205	Falkland Islands	0	-13.5%
206	Montserrat	0	-0.7%
207	Saint Helena	0	+2.4%
208	Niue	0	0%
209	Antarctica	0	-100%
209	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 2017 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 6,655.6 TWh in 2017, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest net electricity generation?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2017.

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 2017 and are not ranked.