Countries by net electricity generation

China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2019, at 7,446.5 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 10.5 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest7,446.5China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median10.5210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2019

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	2019 TWh	Change on 2018
1	China	7,446.5	+5.1%
2	United States	4,165.5	-1.1%
3	India	1,534.9	+3.1%
4	Russia	1,096.7	+1.3%
5	Japan	1,012.7	-3.2%
6	Brazil	631.6	+4.2%
7	Canada	628.2	-1.4%
8	Germany	581	-5.9%
9	South Korea	567.2	-1.6%
10	France	544.2	-1.9%
11	Saudi Arabia	387.7	-0.4%
12	Mexico	331.3	-4.1%
13	Iran	325.8	+5.8%
14	United Kingdom	316.9	-2.2%
15	Türkiye	300.2	-0.6%
16	Italy	282.9	-0.9%
17	Indonesia	282	+6.1%
18	Taiwan	270.2	-0.4%
19	Australia	269.2	+1.7%
20	Spain	265.2	-0.4%
21	South Africa	247	-1.7%
22	Vietnam	237	+9%
23	Egypt	195.5	-2%
24	Thailand	191.8	+5.4%
25	Malaysia	179.4	+5.4%
26	Sweden	165.7	+3.5%
27	Poland	162.4	-3.9%
28	Ukraine	148.7	-4.6%
29	Argentina	138.6	-5.3%
30	United Arab Emirates	138.5	+1.8%
31	Pakistan	133.3	+3.3%
32	Norway	131.8	-9%
33	Netherlands	119.8	+5.5%
34	Iraq	115.2	+17.1%
35	Kazakhstan	106.9	-0.7%
36	Philippines	106	+6.3%
37	Belgium	91.9	+24.9%
38	Venezuela	85.1	-14.6%
39	Bangladesh	85.1	+7.5%
40	Chile	84	+2.7%
41	Czechia	83.7	-1.3%
42	Algeria	81.6	+6.3%
43	Colombia	78.8	+0.7%
44	Kuwait	75	+1.2%
45	Israel	72	+4.2%
46	Austria	68.6	+12.1%
47	Finland	67.4	-2.5%
48	Switzerland	65.3	+6.8%
49	Uzbekistan	63.6	+0.7%
50	Romania	56.9	-10.2%
51	Peru	56.9	+4.1%
52	Singapore	54.5	+2.5%
53	Portugal	51	-11.8%
54	Qatar	50	+4%
55	Paraguay	49.6	-16.4%
56	Greece	46.9	-8.2%
57	New Zealand	43.7	0%
58	Bulgaria	42.8	-6%
59	Belarus	40.5	+3.8%
60	Morocco	40.3	+16.8%
61	Oman	38.9	+3%
62	Hong Kong	36.9	+1.1%
63	Serbia	36.5	+0.4%
64	Nigeria	36.5	-0.6%
65	Libya	34.6	+1.3%
66	Bahrain	33.1	+12%
67	Ecuador	32.5	+11%
68	Hungary	32.4	+5.2%
69	Laos	31.2	-9.2%
70	Ireland	30.5	-0.5%
71	Denmark	29.3	-2.1%
72	Slovakia	26.9	+6.2%
73	Azerbaijan	26	+3.3%
74	North Korea	23.9	-3.8%
75	Turkmenistan	22.5	-11.3%
76	Syria	22.3	0%
77	Tunisia	22	+5.2%
78	Lebanon	21.6	+1.5%
79	Dominican Republic	21.3	+8.6%
80	Tajikistan	21	+6.2%
81	Cuba	20.7	-0.6%
82	Jordan	20.5	+0.7%
83	Iceland	19.4	-1.7%
84	Myanmar	19.3	-10.7%
85	Puerto Rico	19.2	+8.3%
86	Mozambique	19	+10.8%
87	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.5	-8.7%
88	Ghana	17.3	+16%
89	Sri Lanka	16.6	+7.3%
90	Sudan	16.2	-1.1%
91	Uruguay	16.1	+10.1%
92	Angola	15.8	+20.3%
93	Slovenia	15.5	-1.5%
94	Ethiopia	15.3	+7.5%
95	Kyrgyzstan	15	-3.1%
96	Zambia	14.8	-9.1%
97	Guatemala	12.7	-4.2%
98	Croatia	12.1	-7.3%
99	Georgia	11.9	-1.6%
100	Democratic Republic of the Congo	11.8	+12.7%
101	Panama	11.6	+4%
102	Kenya	11.6	+2.4%
103	Costa Rica	11.4	-0.2%
104	Côte d’Ivoire	10.7	+6.3%
105	Honduras	10.6	+9.7%
106	Bolivia	10.4	+3.3%
107	Trinidad and Tobago	9.2	-0.4%
108	Cambodia	9	+5.6%
109	Bhutan	8.6	+25.5%
110	Zimbabwe	8.5	-10.2%
111	Cameroon	8.3	-3%
112	Tanzania	7.8	+6.2%
113	Estonia	7.6	-38.4%
114	Armenia	7.5	-1.4%
115	Mongolia	6.9	+5.7%
116	Nepal	6.2	+27.1%
117	El Salvador	6.1	+12.4%
118	Latvia	6.1	-9.8%
119	Senegal	5.8	+17.9%
120	North Macedonia	5.8	+3.5%
121	Moldova	5.7	+5.7%
122	Albania	5.2	-39.1%
123	Cyprus	5.1	+1.6%
124	Brunei	4.9	+14.9%
125	Jamaica	4.6	+16.8%
126	Uganda	4.6	+6.3%
127	Nicaragua	4.6	-1.8%
128	Papua New Guinea	4.3	-1.6%
129	Republic of the Congo	3.9	+26.2%
130	Mali	3.8	+5.5%
131	Montenegro	3.4	-9.9%
132	New Caledonia	3.3	-4.4%
133	Yemen	3.3	-6%
134	Mauritius	3.2	+3.4%
135	Lithuania	2.9	+14.9%
136	Gabon	2.8	+2.3%
137	Botswana	2.5	-19.2%
138	Madagascar	2.5	+4.2%
139	Malta	2.1	+5.1%
140	Guinea	2.1	+5.5%
141	Suriname	2	+7.4%
142	Bahamas	2	+0.5%
143	Malawi	1.8	-0.6%
144	Guam	1.7	+0.7%
145	Burkina Faso	1.6	-14.6%
146	Mauritania	1.6	+6.7%
147	Afghanistan	1.5	+25.3%
148	Equatorial Guinea	1.4	+3.7%
149	Namibia	1.4	-2.2%
150	Guyana	1.2	+0.4%
151	Fiji	1.1	+3.2%
152	Haiti	1.1	+1.7%
153	Barbados	1.1	+1.7%
154	Aruba	1	+2.2%
155	Rwanda	0.9	+5.4%
156	Macao	0.8	+27.1%
157	Palestine	0.8	+93.6%
158	Maldives	0.8	+3.9%
159	Cayman Islands	0.7	+6.1%
160	Luxembourg	0.7	+46.9%
161	French Polynesia	0.7	+2.4%
162	Niger	0.7	+25.1%
163	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.7	+6.8%
164	Togo	0.6	+2.5%
165	Bermuda	0.6	-4.9%
166	Seychelles	0.6	+11.4%
167	Belize	0.5	+28.9%
168	Benin	0.5	+162.2%
169	Timor-Leste	0.5	+14.3%
170	Greenland	0.5	-7%
171	Eswatini	0.5	-0.3%
172	Gambia	0.5	+17.3%
173	Cape Verde	0.4	+3.4%
174	Liberia	0.4	+3.2%
175	Saint Lucia	0.4	+2.6%
176	Eritrea	0.4	+2.8%
177	Burundi	0.4	+13.9%
178	Lesotho	0.4	-23.9%
179	Faroe Islands	0.4	+9.7%
180	Somalia	0.4	0%
181	Antigua and Barbuda	0.4	-0.2%
182	Chad	0.4	+2.9%
183	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.3	+1%
184	Grenada	0.2	+3.9%
185	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	+1.2%
186	Gibraltar	0.2	+2%
187	Sierra Leone	0.2	-23.8%
188	American Samoa	0.2	+0.6%
189	Samoa	0.2	+6.7%
190	British Virgin Islands	0.2	+0.9%
191	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.2	+2.5%
192	Central African Republic	0.2	0%
193	Dominica	0.1	+25.4%
194	Solomon Islands	0.1	+2.5%
195	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	+0.9%
196	Comoros	0.1	+10.1%
197	Djibouti	0.1	+65.4%
198	Vanuatu	0.1	+2.3%
199	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	+1%
200	Tonga	0.1	+6.9%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.1	+2.4%
202	Cook Islands	0	-6.6%
203	Nauru	0	+3.1%
204	Kiribati	0	+4.8%
205	Falkland Islands	0	+3%
206	Montserrat	0	-2.1%
207	Saint Helena	0	+15.4%
208	Niue	0	0%
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 2019 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 7,446.5 TWh in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest net electricity generation?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2019.

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 2019 and are not ranked.