Countries by net electricity generation

China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2018, at 7,084.8 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 10 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest7,084.8China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median10210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2018

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	2018 TWh	Change on 2017
1	China	7,084.8	+6.4%
2	United States	4,210.5	+3.7%
3	India	1,489.1	+3.9%
4	Russia	1,082.9	+1%
5	Japan	1,046.2	-1.6%
6	Canada	637.4	-1.8%
7	Germany	617.1	-2.3%
8	Brazil	605.9	+1.9%
9	South Korea	576.7	+4.3%
10	France	555	+3.6%
11	Saudi Arabia	389.1	+2.5%
12	Mexico	345.6	+7.2%
13	United Kingdom	323.9	-1.1%
14	Iran	308	+0.4%
15	Türkiye	301.9	+2.4%
16	Italy	285.4	-2.1%
17	Taiwan	271.4	+2%
18	Spain	266.3	-0.4%
19	Indonesia	265.7	+1.6%
20	Australia	264.7	+2.1%
21	South Africa	251.2	+0.5%
22	Vietnam	217.4	+10.9%
23	Egypt	199.5	+1.4%
24	Thailand	181.9	-0%
25	Malaysia	170.2	+3.6%
26	Poland	168.9	-0.2%
27	Sweden	160.2	-0.9%
28	Ukraine	155.8	+2.3%
29	Argentina	146.4	+0.7%
30	Norway	144.9	-1.6%
31	United Arab Emirates	136	+1.1%
32	Pakistan	129	-1%
33	Netherlands	113.5	-1.7%
34	Kazakhstan	107.6	+4.4%
35	Philippines	99.8	+5.7%
36	Venezuela	99.7	-3.9%
37	Iraq	98.4	+5.2%
38	Czechia	84.8	+3.8%
39	Chile	81.8	+3.6%
40	Bangladesh	79.2	+7.8%
41	Colombia	78.2	-0.3%
42	Algeria	76.7	+0.9%
43	Kuwait	74.1	+7.6%
44	Belgium	73.6	-12.9%
45	Finland	69.1	+4.5%
46	Israel	69	+2.4%
47	Romania	63.4	+0.8%
48	Uzbekistan	63.1	+3.8%
49	Austria	61.2	-6.5%
50	Switzerland	61.1	+10.3%
51	Paraguay	59.3	-0.8%
52	Portugal	57.9	+1.6%
53	Peru	54.6	+3.6%
54	Singapore	53.2	+1.4%
55	Greece	51	-3.8%
56	Qatar	48.1	+5.2%
57	Bulgaria	45.5	+3.9%
58	New Zealand	43.7	+0.2%
59	Belarus	39	+13%
60	Oman	37.8	+4.5%
61	Nigeria	36.7	+13.8%
62	Hong Kong	36.6	-1%
63	Serbia	36.4	+0.7%
64	Morocco	34.5	+8.4%
65	Laos	34.4	+10.8%
66	Libya	34.2	+2.7%
67	Hungary	30.8	-2.8%
68	Ireland	30.6	+0.5%
69	Denmark	29.9	-1.8%
70	Bahrain	29.6	+1.1%
71	Ecuador	29.2	+5%
72	Turkmenistan	25.4	+6.1%
73	Slovakia	25.3	-3%
74	Azerbaijan	25.1	+3.8%
75	North Korea	24.8	+6%
76	Syria	22.3	+21.1%
77	Myanmar	21.6	+2.8%
78	Lebanon	21.3	+0.2%
79	Tunisia	20.9	+1.6%
80	Cuba	20.8	+1.2%
81	Jordan	20.4	-2%
82	Tajikistan	19.7	+9%
83	Iceland	19.7	+3.3%
84	Dominican Republic	19.6	+2.1%
85	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.1	+16.8%
86	Puerto Rico	17.7	+8%
87	Mozambique	17.1	-2.8%
88	Sudan	16.4	+4.5%
89	Zambia	16.3	+11.8%
90	Slovenia	15.7	+0.9%
91	Sri Lanka	15.5	+3.9%
92	Kyrgyzstan	15.4	+0.4%
93	Ghana	14.9	+12.1%
94	Uruguay	14.6	+1.8%
95	Ethiopia	14.2	+8.4%
96	Guatemala	13.3	+7.4%
97	Angola	13.1	+21.7%
98	Croatia	13	+14.2%
99	Estonia	12.4	-6.1%
100	Georgia	12	+5.3%
101	Costa Rica	11.4	+1.5%
102	Kenya	11.3	+4.2%
103	Panama	11.2	+1.5%
104	Democratic Republic of the Congo	10.5	+11.2%
105	Bolivia	10	+4.7%
106	Côte d’Ivoire	10	-0.7%
107	Honduras	9.7	+3.5%
108	Zimbabwe	9.4	+24.8%
109	Trinidad and Tobago	9.2	-1.1%
110	Cambodia	8.6	+25%
111	Albania	8.6	+89%
112	Cameroon	8.5	+6.3%
113	Armenia	7.6	+0.7%
114	Tanzania	7.3	+3.4%
115	Bhutan	6.9	-9.9%
116	Latvia	6.7	+2.1%
117	Mongolia	6.6	+8.8%
118	North Macedonia	5.6	+0.2%
119	El Salvador	5.4	-2.9%
120	Moldova	5.4	+8.6%
121	Cyprus	5.1	+1.1%
122	Senegal	4.9	+4.7%
123	Nepal	4.8	+5.9%
124	Nicaragua	4.7	+2.9%
125	Papua New Guinea	4.3	+0.1%
126	Uganda	4.3	+13.8%
127	Brunei	4.3	+3.3%
128	Jamaica	4	-9.7%
129	Montenegro	3.8	+53.5%
130	Mali	3.6	+4.7%
131	Yemen	3.5	-13.9%
132	New Caledonia	3.5	+8%
133	Mauritius	3.1	+0.4%
134	Botswana	3.1	+2.7%
135	Republic of the Congo	3.1	+3.2%
136	Gabon	2.8	+23.8%
137	Lithuania	2.5	-18.7%
138	Madagascar	2.4	+19.6%
139	Bahamas	2	+0.6%
140	Malta	2	+21.8%
141	Guinea	1.9	+9.6%
142	Suriname	1.9	+5.4%
143	Burkina Faso	1.9	+67.3%
144	Malawi	1.8	-5.2%
145	Guam	1.7	-1.7%
146	Mauritania	1.5	+7.7%
147	Namibia	1.4	-20.1%
148	Equatorial Guinea	1.4	+1.6%
149	Afghanistan	1.2	-7.9%
150	Guyana	1.1	+2.4%
151	Fiji	1.1	+9.5%
152	Haiti	1	-0.8%
153	Barbados	1	+0.3%
154	Aruba	1	-1.6%
155	Rwanda	0.8	+27.7%
156	Maldives	0.8	+7.7%
157	French Polynesia	0.7	-0.7%
158	Cayman Islands	0.7	-1%
159	Macao	0.7	-55.4%
160	Bermuda	0.6	-4.9%
161	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.6	+3.8%
162	Togo	0.6	-26.2%
163	Niger	0.5	-5.5%
164	Greenland	0.5	+2.8%
165	Seychelles	0.5	+1.1%
166	Lesotho	0.5	-4.2%
167	Eswatini	0.5	+13.5%
168	Luxembourg	0.5	+20.5%
169	Timor-Leste	0.5	+5.2%
170	Cape Verde	0.4	+1%
171	Palestine	0.4	-23%
172	Belize	0.4	+2.7%
173	Liberia	0.4	+15.7%
174	Saint Lucia	0.4	+0.9%
175	Gambia	0.4	+24.1%
176	Eritrea	0.4	+16.7%
177	Somalia	0.4	0%
178	Antigua and Barbuda	0.4	+2.5%
179	Faroe Islands	0.4	+5.2%
180	Burundi	0.3	+27.2%
181	Chad	0.3	+7.2%
182	Sierra Leone	0.3	+18.5%
183	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.3	-11.9%
184	Grenada	0.2	+2%
185	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	+1.8%
186	Gibraltar	0.2	+0.9%
187	Benin	0.2	-38.9%
188	American Samoa	0.2	+0.6%
189	British Virgin Islands	0.2	-6.6%
190	Samoa	0.2	-5.5%
191	Central African Republic	0.2	-0.3%
192	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.2	+0.2%
193	Dominica	0.1	-15.6%
194	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	-0.6%
195	Solomon Islands	0.1	+1.8%
196	Comoros	0.1	+8.2%
197	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	+3.6%
198	Vanuatu	0.1	+12.9%
199	Tonga	0.1	+1.8%
200	Djibouti	0.1	-5.7%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.1	+4.5%
202	Cook Islands	0	+24.1%
203	Nauru	0	+4.3%
204	Kiribati	0	+1%
205	Falkland Islands	0	-2.9%
206	Montserrat	0	+5.2%
207	Saint Helena	0	-9.3%
208	Niue	0	+3%
209	Antarctica	0	n/a
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 2018 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 7,084.8 TWh in 2018, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest net electricity generation?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2018.

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 2018 and are not ranked.