Countries by net electricity generation

China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2020, at 7,725.9 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 10.6 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest7,725.9China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median10.6210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2020

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	2020 TWh	Change on 2019
1	China	7,725.9	+3.8%
2	United States	4,051.3	-2.7%
3	India	1,520.3	-1%
4	Russia	1,078.8	-1.6%
5	Japan	971.9	-4%
6	Canada	634.1	+0.9%
7	Brazil	627.5	-0.6%
8	South Korea	570.1	+0.5%
9	Germany	549.8	-5.4%
10	France	506.7	-6.9%
11	Saudi Arabia	394.3	+1.7%
12	Iran	342.7	+5.2%
13	Mexico	317	-4.3%
14	United Kingdom	305.3	-3.7%
15	Türkiye	303.4	+1.1%
16	Indonesia	292.1	+3.6%
17	Taiwan	276.1	+2.2%
18	Italy	271	-4.2%
19	Australia	264.1	-1.9%
20	Spain	253.6	-4.4%
21	Vietnam	240.1	+1.3%
22	South Africa	235.9	-4.5%
23	Egypt	202.8	+3.7%
24	Thailand	179.7	-6.3%
25	Malaysia	175.8	-2%
26	Sweden	161	-2.8%
27	Poland	156.4	-3.7%
28	Norway	153.8	+16.7%
29	Ukraine	147.8	-0.6%
30	Pakistan	143.1	+7.3%
31	Argentina	142.4	+2.7%
32	United Arab Emirates	137.3	-0.8%
33	Netherlands	122.1	+1.9%
34	Iraq	117.1	+1.7%
35	Kazakhstan	110.9	+3.8%
36	Philippines	101.7	-4%
37	Belgium	87.2	-5.1%
38	Bangladesh	85.5	+0.4%
39	Chile	83.6	-0.5%
40	Venezuela	80.5	-5.4%
41	Algeria	79.4	-2.8%
42	Colombia	77.8	-1.3%
43	Czechia	77.3	-7.6%
44	Kuwait	74.6	-0.5%
45	Israel	71.8	-0.2%
46	Finland	68	+0.9%
47	Austria	67.9	-1%
48	Uzbekistan	66.5	+4.7%
49	Switzerland	66.1	+1.2%
50	Singapore	53.4	-2%
51	Romania	53.3	-6.4%
52	Peru	53	-6.8%
53	Portugal	51.1	+0.1%
54	Qatar	49.4	-1.2%
55	Paraguay	46.6	-6%
56	Greece	45.2	-3.5%
57	New Zealand	43.3	-0.9%
58	Laos	40	+28%
59	Bulgaria	39.2	-8.4%
60	Morocco	38.6	-4%
61	Oman	38.6	-0.7%
62	Belarus	38.5	-4.7%
63	Nigeria	38	+4.2%
64	Serbia	36.9	+1.1%
65	Hong Kong	34.4	-7%
66	Bahrain	33.4	+0.8%
67	Hungary	33.1	+2.1%
68	Ecuador	31.3	-3.6%
69	Ireland	31.1	+2.2%
70	Libya	29.5	-14.8%
71	Denmark	28.5	-2.7%
72	Slovakia	27.3	+1.4%
73	Turkmenistan	25.8	+14.5%
74	Azerbaijan	25.7	-0.9%
75	North Korea	24.1	+0.9%
76	Tunisia	21.4	-2.9%
77	Syria	21	-5.8%
78	Jordan	20.7	+0.9%
79	Tajikistan	20.1	-4.1%
80	Ghana	19.7	+14.1%
81	Dominican Republic	19.5	-8.4%
82	Puerto Rico	19.1	-0.4%
83	Cuba	19	-8%
84	Mozambique	19	+0.2%
85	Iceland	18.9	-2.4%
86	Myanmar	18.8	-2.8%
87	Lebanon	18.3	-15.5%
88	Sudan	17.2	+6%
89	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16.9	-3.2%
90	Angola	16.8	+6.3%
91	Sri Lanka	16.7	+0.3%
92	Slovenia	16.5	+6.4%
93	Ethiopia	15.6	+2%
94	Kyrgyzstan	15.4	+3%
95	Zambia	15.2	+3%
96	Uruguay	13.6	-15.6%
97	Croatia	12.6	+3.9%
98	Democratic Republic of the Congo	12.5	+5.9%
99	Guatemala	12.4	-2.2%
100	Costa Rica	11.7	+2.8%
101	Kenya	11.7	+1.1%
102	Bhutan	11.4	+31.5%
103	Côte d’Ivoire	11.3	+5.6%
104	Georgia	11.2	-5.9%
105	Panama	10.9	-6.1%
106	Bolivia	10.3	-1%
107	Honduras	10.1	-4.8%
108	Trinidad and Tobago	9.2	+0.4%
109	Cambodia	9	-0.9%
110	Cameroon	8.8	+6.4%
111	Tanzania	7.8	+0.8%
112	Armenia	7.6	+2%
113	Zimbabwe	6.7	-20.7%
114	Mongolia	6.6	-4.4%
115	El Salvador	6.3	+4.3%
116	Nepal	6.2	+0.5%
117	Moldova	6.2	+8.5%
118	Estonia	6.1	-20.2%
119	Senegal	6.1	+4.3%
120	Brunei	5.7	+16.3%
121	Latvia	5.5	-8.8%
122	Albania	5.3	+2.1%
123	North Macedonia	5.3	-9.2%
124	Cyprus	4.8	-5.7%
125	Uganda	4.6	+0.6%
126	Jamaica	4.3	-7.5%
127	Lithuania	4.2	+44.6%
128	Papua New Guinea	4.1	-4%
129	Republic of the Congo	4	+3.2%
130	Mali	3.9	+3.2%
131	Nicaragua	3.8	-17.1%
132	Montenegro	3.4	-1.5%
133	New Caledonia	3.2	-3%
134	Yemen	2.9	-10.3%
135	Gabon	2.9	+3.1%
136	Mauritius	2.9	-11%
137	Guinea	2.5	+21.2%
138	Botswana	2.2	-13.1%
139	Madagascar	2.2	-12.6%
140	Malta	2.1	+4%
141	Suriname	2.1	+0.8%
142	Bahamas	2	+0.5%
143	Namibia	2	+44.3%
144	Malawi	1.8	-2.9%
145	Guam	1.7	-2.1%
146	Mauritania	1.6	+4.5%
147	Burkina Faso	1.6	-0.3%
148	Equatorial Guinea	1.4	+0.5%
149	Afghanistan	1.2	-19.3%
150	Guyana	1.2	-0%
151	Fiji	1.1	-5.9%
152	Barbados	1.1	+0.2%
153	Haiti	1	-3.2%
154	Benin	1	+86.8%
155	Aruba	1	+0.3%
156	Rwanda	0.9	+3.2%
157	Palestine	0.8	+3.1%
158	Maldives	0.8	+1.5%
159	Luxembourg	0.8	+16.4%
160	Cayman Islands	0.7	-3.6%
161	Niger	0.7	+0.4%
162	French Polynesia	0.7	-3.8%
163	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.6	-1.9%
164	Togo	0.6	+1.3%
165	Seychelles	0.6	+1.7%
166	Bermuda	0.6	-3.7%
167	Macao	0.6	-32.2%
168	Greenland	0.5	+6.8%
169	Timor-Leste	0.5	-2.4%
170	Eswatini	0.5	+0.4%
171	Gambia	0.5	+4.8%
172	Liberia	0.5	+6.6%
173	Belize	0.4	-17.2%
174	Lesotho	0.4	+8.6%
175	Cape Verde	0.4	-5%
176	Eritrea	0.4	+2.7%
177	Faroe Islands	0.4	+5.8%
178	Saint Lucia	0.4	-8.7%
179	Somalia	0.4	+0.8%
180	Burundi	0.4	-7.8%
181	Chad	0.4	+0.6%
182	Antigua and Barbuda	0.3	-3.3%
183	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.3	-1.8%
184	Grenada	0.2	-6.8%
185	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	-4.9%
186	Gibraltar	0.2	-2.4%
187	Sierra Leone	0.2	-3.1%
188	Samoa	0.2	+11.1%
189	American Samoa	0.2	+1.2%
190	British Virgin Islands	0.2	0%
191	Central African Republic	0.2	0%
191	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.2	-1.8%
193	Dominica	0.1	+2.7%
194	Comoros	0.1	+19.5%
195	Djibouti	0.1	+36.9%
196	Solomon Islands	0.1	-0.5%
197	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	0%
198	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	-0.6%
199	Vanuatu	0.1	-6%
200	Tonga	0.1	+2.2%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.1	-1.7%
202	Nauru	0	+4.3%
203	Cook Islands	0	-13.2%
204	Kiribati	0	-1.8%
205	Falkland Islands	0	-3.5%
206	Montserrat	0	-1.4%
207	Saint Helena	0	-6.7%
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 2020 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 7,725.9 TWh in 2020, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest net electricity generation?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2020.

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 2020 and are not ranked.