Countries by net electricity generation

China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2021, at 8,320.8 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 10.8 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest8,320.8China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median10.8210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2021

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	2021 TWh	Change on 2020
1	China	8,320.8	+7.7%
2	United States	4,158.9	+2.7%
3	India	1,615.7	+6.3%
4	Russia	1,147.6	+6.4%
5	Japan	1,001.5	+3%
6	Brazil	654.7	+4.3%
7	Canada	612.5	-3.4%
8	South Korea	594.2	+4.2%
9	Germany	569	+3.5%
10	France	529	+4.4%
11	Saudi Arabia	408.6	+3.6%
12	Mexico	375.3	+18.4%
13	Iran	354.9	+3.6%
14	Türkiye	324.6	+7%
15	Indonesia	308.7	+5.7%
16	United Kingdom	299.3	-2%
17	Taiwan	287	+4%
18	Italy	277.1	+2.3%
19	Australia	268.3	+1.6%
20	Spain	262.7	+3.6%
21	Vietnam	253.4	+5.5%
22	South Africa	239	+1.3%
23	Egypt	207.6	+2.4%
24	Malaysia	182.6	+3.8%
25	Thailand	180.1	+0.2%
26	Poland	170.1	+8.8%
27	Sweden	166.7	+3.5%
28	Pakistan	158.6	+10.8%
29	Ukraine	157.7	+6.7%
30	Norway	157.4	+2.3%
31	Argentina	151.5	+6.4%
32	United Arab Emirates	149	+8.5%
33	Netherlands	120.8	-1.1%
34	Iraq	120.5	+2.8%
35	Kazakhstan	115.1	+3.8%
36	Philippines	105.7	+3.9%
37	Belgium	97.3	+11.6%
38	Bangladesh	95.7	+11.9%
39	Chile	88.1	+5.4%
40	Algeria	85.6	+7.9%
41	Colombia	84.4	+8.5%
42	Venezuela	82.9	+3%
43	Kuwait	80.8	+8.3%
44	Czechia	78.1	+1%
45	Israel	73.1	+1.9%
46	Uzbekistan	71.4	+7.4%
47	Finland	71	+4.5%
48	Austria	67.1	-1.2%
49	Switzerland	60.9	-7.9%
50	Peru	57	+7.5%
51	Singapore	56.4	+5.6%
52	Romania	54.9	+3%
53	Greece	52.9	+16.8%
54	Qatar	51.8	+4.8%
55	Portugal	48.8	-4.5%
56	Bulgaria	45.9	+17.1%
57	Laos	44.9	+12.3%
58	New Zealand	43.5	+0.4%
59	Oman	41.8	+8.2%
60	Belarus	41.2	+7%
61	Morocco	41.2	+6.5%
62	Paraguay	40.8	-12.4%
63	Nigeria	39.2	+3.2%
64	Serbia	37.2	+0.9%
65	Hong Kong	36.2	+5.4%
66	Libya	34.8	+17.9%
67	Hungary	34.3	+3.6%
68	Bahrain	33.9	+1.6%
69	Denmark	32.6	+14.4%
70	Ecuador	32.1	+2.7%
71	Ireland	30.6	-1.8%
72	Slovakia	29.5	+8.1%
73	Turkmenistan	28.4	+10.2%
74	Azerbaijan	27.8	+8%
75	North Korea	25.6	+6.3%
76	Ghana	22.1	+11.8%
77	Tunisia	21.9	+2.4%
78	Syria	21.7	+3.2%
79	Dominican Republic	21.4	+10%
80	Jordan	21.4	+3.2%
81	Tajikistan	20.7	+3.1%
82	Myanmar	20	+6.4%
83	Iceland	19.4	+2.6%
84	Puerto Rico	19.4	+1.5%
85	Mozambique	18.9	-0.9%
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	18.6	+10%
87	Cuba	17.8	-6.3%
88	Zambia	17.7	+16.3%
89	Sudan	17.7	+3%
90	Sri Lanka	17.5	+5.2%
91	Angola	16.9	+0.3%
92	Uruguay	16	+17.9%
93	Ethiopia	15.8	+1.1%
94	Guatemala	15.5	+24.7%
95	Slovenia	15.2	-7.8%
96	Kyrgyzstan	15.1	-1.7%
97	Croatia	14.4	+14.9%
98	Democratic Republic of the Congo	14.2	+13.7%
99	Costa Rica	12.7	+8.6%
100	Georgia	12.6	+13.3%
101	Kenya	12.4	+5.9%
102	Panama	12.1	+10.7%
103	Côte d’Ivoire	11.3	+0.8%
104	Honduras	11.1	+9.6%
105	Bolivia	10.9	+5.6%
106	Bhutan	10.8	-4.8%
107	Lebanon	10.3	-43.4%
108	Cambodia	10.1	+12.5%
109	Nepal	9.6	+55.7%
110	Trinidad and Tobago	9.3	+0.4%
111	Albania	8.9	+68.2%
112	Tanzania	8.7	+10.4%
113	Zimbabwe	8.6	+27.6%
114	Cameroon	8.4	-4.5%
115	Armenia	7.7	+1.3%
116	Mongolia	7.4	+12.1%
117	Estonia	7.4	+21%
118	Senegal	6.7	+9.7%
119	Moldova	6.7	+7.7%
120	El Salvador	6.5	+2.2%
121	Brunei	5.7	-0.7%
122	Latvia	5.6	+1.9%
123	North Macedonia	5.4	+2.8%
124	Uganda	5.3	+14.4%
125	Cyprus	5.1	+5.5%
126	Papua New Guinea	4.5	+10.3%
127	Jamaica	4.4	+1.8%
128	Nicaragua	4.2	+11.1%
129	Republic of the Congo	4.1	+2.5%
130	Mali	3.9	+0.2%
131	Montenegro	3.8	+11.7%
132	Guinea	3.6	+46.6%
133	Lithuania	3.6	-13.7%
134	Mauritius	3	+3.8%
135	Gabon	3	+1.3%
136	Yemen	2.9	-0.5%
137	New Caledonia	2.9	-10.1%
138	Madagascar	2.5	+16.9%
139	Botswana	2.5	+13.9%
140	Malta	2.2	+3.4%
141	Suriname	2.1	+1.9%
142	Bahamas	2	+0.7%
143	Malawi	1.8	+4.6%
144	Guam	1.7	+1.9%
145	Burkina Faso	1.7	+7.6%
146	Mauritania	1.6	-3%
147	Namibia	1.5	-24.7%
148	Equatorial Guinea	1.4	+1.5%
149	Guyana	1.2	+0.3%
150	Benin	1.1	+14%
151	Barbados	1.1	+0.3%
152	Fiji	1.1	-1.9%
153	Afghanistan	1.1	-10.1%
154	Haiti	1	+0.4%
155	Rwanda	1	+12.2%
156	Aruba	1	+0.4%
157	Palestine	0.9	+9%
158	Luxembourg	0.8	+3.7%
159	Maldives	0.8	+1.6%
160	Niger	0.7	+7.3%
161	Togo	0.7	+14%
162	Cayman Islands	0.7	+1.9%
163	French Polynesia	0.7	-1.3%
164	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.7	+1.3%
165	Seychelles	0.6	+1.2%
166	Bermuda	0.6	+0.9%
167	Lesotho	0.5	+24.6%
168	Greenland	0.5	-0.8%
169	Timor-Leste	0.5	+1.5%
170	Eswatini	0.5	+3.3%
171	Gambia	0.5	+3.5%
172	Macao	0.5	-11.9%
173	Cape Verde	0.4	+2.7%
174	Faroe Islands	0.4	+6.4%
175	Chad	0.4	+22.2%
176	Eritrea	0.4	+2%
177	Saint Lucia	0.4	+4.9%
178	Liberia	0.4	-15.3%
179	Burundi	0.4	+4.6%
180	Somalia	0.4	+1.4%
181	Belize	0.4	-18%
182	Antigua and Barbuda	0.4	+2%
183	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.3	+4.2%
184	Grenada	0.2	+3.7%
185	Gibraltar	0.2	+8.6%
186	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	-0.9%
187	Djibouti	0.2	+56.7%
188	Sierra Leone	0.2	+0.1%
189	Samoa	0.2	-4.5%
190	American Samoa	0.2	+0.6%
191	British Virgin Islands	0.2	+4.3%
192	Central African Republic	0.2	+0.1%
193	Dominica	0.1	+1%
194	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	-5.3%
195	Comoros	0.1	+1.5%
196	Solomon Islands	0.1	-0.1%
197	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	-0.7%
198	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	0%
199	Vanuatu	0.1	-1.4%
200	Tonga	0.1	-1.1%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.1	-1%
202	Cook Islands	0	+7.1%
203	Nauru	0	+4.4%
204	Kiribati	0	0%
205	Falkland Islands	0	+7.2%
206	Montserrat	0	+20.6%
207	Saint Helena	0	0%
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 2021 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 8,320.8 TWh in 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest net electricity generation?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2021.

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 2021 and are not ranked.