Countries by net electricity generation

China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2022, at 8,665.2 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 11 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest8,665.2China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median11210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2022

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	2022 TWh	Change on 2021
1	China	8,665.2	+4.1%
2	United States	4,291.9	+3.2%
3	India	1,741.4	+7.8%
4	Russia	1,135.6	-1%
5	Japan	993.9	-0.8%
6	Brazil	676.4	+3.3%
7	Canada	637.1	+4%
8	South Korea	587	-1.2%
9	Germany	557.9	-1.9%
10	France	448.6	-15.2%
11	Saudi Arabia	419.2	+2.6%
12	Indonesia	376	+21.8%
13	Iran	365.6	+3%
14	United Kingdom	319.9	+6.9%
15	Mexico	317.9	-15.3%
16	Türkiye	313.7	-3.4%
17	Taiwan	283.6	-1.2%
18	Spain	277.8	+5.8%
19	Vietnam	277.1	+9.4%
20	Australia	273.2	+1.8%
21	Italy	272	-1.8%
22	South Africa	233.7	-2.2%
23	Egypt	209.9	+1.1%
24	Malaysia	191.6	+5%
25	Thailand	186.5	+3.6%
26	Sweden	173.7	+4.2%
27	Poland	169.5	-0.3%
28	Pakistan	169.5	+6.9%
29	United Arab Emirates	154.1	+3.4%
30	Norway	144.1	-8.4%
31	Argentina	144.1	-4.9%
32	Iraq	133.9	+11.1%
33	Netherlands	120.8	0%
34	Kazakhstan	113.6	-1.3%
35	Philippines	111.5	+5.5%
36	Ukraine	111.2	-29.5%
37	Bangladesh	102.3	+6.9%
38	Belgium	92.9	-4.5%
39	Algeria	91.5	+6.9%
40	Chile	91	+3.3%
41	Kuwait	85.3	+5.5%
42	Colombia	82.9	-1.8%
43	Venezuela	82.4	-0.7%
44	Czechia	79.7	+2%
45	Uzbekistan	75.1	+5.1%
46	Israel	74.4	+1.7%
47	Finland	70.3	-1%
48	Austria	62.6	-6.7%
49	Peru	59.9	+5.1%
50	Switzerland	58.9	-3.2%
51	Singapore	57.3	+1.7%
52	Qatar	54.8	+5.7%
53	Romania	51.2	-6.7%
54	Greece	51.2	-3.2%
55	Laos	51	+13.7%
56	Bulgaria	49.9	+8.6%
57	Portugal	46.3	-5%
58	Oman	44.1	+5.5%
59	Paraguay	44.1	+8%
60	New Zealand	43.3	-0.6%
61	Morocco	41.3	+0.3%
62	Nigeria	38	-3.1%
63	Belarus	37.2	-9.9%
64	Hong Kong	36.1	-0.3%
65	Bahrain	35.7	+5.2%
66	Libya	35.1	+0.9%
67	Serbia	34.9	-6.3%
68	Denmark	34.6	+6.1%
69	Hungary	33.8	-1.3%
70	Ecuador	33.1	+2.9%
71	Turkmenistan	32.6	+14.8%
72	Ireland	32	+4.6%
73	Azerbaijan	28.9	+4.1%
74	North Korea	26.5	+3.6%
75	Slovakia	26.3	-10.7%
76	Myanmar	23.2	+16.4%
77	Ghana	23.2	+5.2%
78	Jordan	22.6	+5.6%
79	Dominican Republic	22.2	+3.4%
80	Tajikistan	21.5	+3.7%
81	Tunisia	21.4	-2.1%
82	Syria	20.1	-7.4%
83	Puerto Rico	19.9	+2.8%
84	Iceland	19.9	+2.5%
85	Mozambique	19.6	+3.7%
86	Zambia	19.5	+9.9%
87	Ethiopia	17.4	+10.3%
88	Angola	17.3	+2.7%
89	Sudan	16.8	-5.3%
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16.7	-9.9%
91	Sri Lanka	16.7	-5%
92	Cuba	15.7	-12.2%
93	Democratic Republic of the Congo	15.3	+7.9%
94	Uruguay	14.9	-7%
95	Georgia	14.2	+12.7%
96	Kyrgyzstan	13.8	-8.7%
97	Guatemala	13.5	-12.9%
98	Croatia	13.4	-7.1%
99	Kenya	13	+4.8%
100	Slovenia	12.9	-15%
101	Côte d’Ivoire	12.6	+11.2%
102	Costa Rica	12.4	-2.3%
103	Panama	12.2	+1.1%
104	Bolivia	11.7	+7.6%
105	Honduras	11.3	+1.8%
106	Bhutan	10.8	-0.5%
107	Nepal	10.7	+11.1%
108	Cambodia	10.6	+5.6%
109	Armenia	9.9	+27.8%
110	Tanzania	9.6	+11.3%
111	Trinidad and Tobago	9.5	+2.5%
112	Zimbabwe	8.9	+4.4%
113	Estonia	8.8	+20.1%
114	Cameroon	8.2	-3.1%
115	Mongolia	7.8	+4.3%
116	Senegal	7.2	+7.5%
117	Albania	7	-22%
118	El Salvador	6.6	+2.4%
119	Uganda	5.7	+9.3%
120	Brunei	5.6	-1.7%
121	North Macedonia	5.6	+2.9%
122	Moldova	5.3	-20%
123	Cyprus	5.3	+2.9%
124	Republic of the Congo	4.9	+20.4%
125	Latvia	4.9	-13.7%
126	Papua New Guinea	4.6	+1.2%
127	Jamaica	4.5	+2.9%
128	Lebanon	4.4	-57.7%
129	Mali	4.3	+10.2%
130	Nicaragua	4.3	+2.7%
131	Guinea	4	+9.6%
132	Lithuania	3.5	-4.3%
133	Montenegro	3.3	-11.9%
134	Gabon	3.2	+7.7%
135	Mauritius	3.1	+3.9%
136	New Caledonia	3.1	+6.2%
137	Yemen	3	+3.7%
138	Madagascar	2.6	+4.9%
139	Botswana	2.6	+2.8%
140	Malta	2.3	+3.6%
141	Suriname	2.1	+0.9%
142	Bahamas	2	+0.4%
143	Malawi	1.8	+0.2%
144	Guam	1.8	+3.5%
145	Burkina Faso	1.7	-0.6%
146	Mauritania	1.6	+3.6%
147	Equatorial Guinea	1.5	+6.3%
148	Namibia	1.3	-12.4%
149	Guyana	1.3	+11.4%
150	Barbados	1.1	+1.7%
151	Fiji	1.1	+0.8%
152	Rwanda	1	+3.7%
153	Palestine	1	+11.2%
154	Haiti	1	-2.1%
155	Aruba	1	-0%
156	Benin	1	-12.5%
157	Afghanistan	1	-9.2%
158	Togo	0.9	+28%
159	Luxembourg	0.9	+0.9%
160	Maldives	0.8	+1%
161	Niger	0.8	+8.5%
162	French Polynesia	0.7	+8.1%
163	Cayman Islands	0.7	-0%
164	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.7	+2.7%
165	Bermuda	0.6	+6.2%
166	Seychelles	0.6	+3.4%
167	Eswatini	0.5	+8.1%
168	Greenland	0.5	+5.2%
169	Timor-Leste	0.5	+0.5%
170	Gambia	0.5	+2.2%
171	Cape Verde	0.5	+16.6%
172	Macao	0.5	-0.5%
173	Faroe Islands	0.5	+12.7%
174	Lesotho	0.5	-9.6%
175	Belize	0.5	+27.2%
176	Eritrea	0.4	+3.8%
177	Somalia	0.4	+10.3%
178	Saint Lucia	0.4	-0.5%
179	Liberia	0.4	+3.1%
180	Chad	0.4	-9%
181	Burundi	0.4	+0.6%
182	Antigua and Barbuda	0.4	+1.5%
183	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.3	0%
184	Grenada	0.2	+1.8%
185	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	+1.2%
186	Gibraltar	0.2	-9.4%
187	Djibouti	0.2	+2%
188	Sierra Leone	0.2	+0.1%
189	British Virgin Islands	0.2	+1.7%
190	American Samoa	0.2	-0.4%
191	Samoa	0.2	-3.2%
192	Dominica	0.2	+7%
193	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	+4.2%
194	Central African Republic	0.1	-6%
195	Comoros	0.1	+2.4%
196	Solomon Islands	0.1	+0.8%
197	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	-18.9%
198	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	+3.4%
199	Vanuatu	0.1	+1.5%
200	Tonga	0.1	-1.2%
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.1	0%
202	Nauru	0	+2.5%
203	Cook Islands	0	0%
204	Kiribati	0	+0.6%
205	Falkland Islands	0	+7%
206	Montserrat	0	-0.4%
207	Saint Helena	0	+0.7%
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 2022 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 8,665.2 TWh in 2022, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest net electricity generation?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2022.

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 2022 and are not ranked.