Countries by net electricity generation

China had the highest net electricity generation of 210 countries in 2023, at 9,483.2 TWh. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 TWh. The median was 11.4 TWh. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest9,483.2China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median11.4210 countries

Top 40 countries, 2023

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	2023 TWh	Change on 2022
1	China	9,483.2	+9.4%
2	United States	4,256.7	-0.8%
3	India	1,982.6	+13.8%
4	Russia	1,159.3	+2.1%
5	Japan	958.3	-3.6%
6	Brazil	701	+3.6%
7	Canada	623.7	-2.1%
8	South Korea	583.9	-0.5%
9	France	498.8	+11.2%
10	Germany	494.4	-11.4%
11	Saudi Arabia	441.6	+5.3%
12	Indonesia	382.8	+1.8%
13	Iran	380.9	+4.2%
14	Mexico	368.1	+15.8%
15	Türkiye	319	+1.7%
16	Vietnam	297.4	+7.3%
17	Taiwan	278.7	-1.7%
18	Australia	269	-1.5%
19	United Kingdom	266.7	-16.7%
20	Spain	266.1	-4.2%
21	Italy	254.1	-6.6%
22	South Africa	230.9	-1.2%
23	Egypt	213.5	+1.7%
24	Thailand	196	+5.1%
25	Malaysia	193.9	+1.2%
26	Poland	164.1	-3.2%
27	Sweden	163.5	-5.9%
28	United Arab Emirates	161.1	+4.5%
29	Norway	152.1	+5.5%
30	Pakistan	145.9	-13.9%
31	Iraq	145	+8.3%
32	Argentina	128.9	-10.5%
33	Netherlands	117.9	-2.4%
34	Philippines	116.7	+4.7%
35	Kazakhstan	113.2	-0.4%
36	Ukraine	102.8	-7.6%
37	Bangladesh	100.7	-1.5%
38	Algeria	95.9	+4.8%
39	Kuwait	89.8	+5.2%
40	Chile	89.2	-2%
41	Colombia	86.7	+4.7%
42	Belgium	79	-15%
43	Finland	78.3	+11.3%
44	Czechia	75.8	-4.9%
45	Israel	75.7	+1.7%
46	Uzbekistan	73.8	-1.7%
47	Venezuela	72	-12.6%
48	Switzerland	68.4	+16%
49	Austria	65.5	+4.6%
50	Peru	60.9	+1.6%
51	Singapore	57.9	+0.9%
52	Qatar	56.4	+3%
53	Romania	53.4	+4.3%
54	Laos	52.3	+2.5%
55	Greece	49.4	-3.4%
56	Oman	45.4	+2.8%
57	Portugal	45.3	-2.3%
58	Paraguay	44.2	+0.3%
59	New Zealand	42.9	-0.8%
60	Morocco	42.4	+2.7%
61	Belarus	41.8	+12.3%
62	Nigeria	40.9	+7.7%
63	Bulgaria	39.8	-20.2%
64	Serbia	39.7	+13.8%
65	Hong Kong	37.7	+4.6%
66	Bahrain	37.5	+5%
67	Ecuador	35.8	+8.4%
68	Hungary	34.1	+0.8%
69	Libya	33.7	-3.9%
70	Denmark	33.7	-2.6%
71	Turkmenistan	32.6	0%
72	Ireland	30.3	-5.3%
73	Azerbaijan	29.1	+0.5%
74	Slovakia	27.4	+4.3%
75	North Korea	26.7	+0.6%
76	Syria	25	+24.5%
77	Dominican Republic	24.6	+10.7%
78	Ghana	24.3	+4.6%
79	Jordan	23.8	+5.4%
80	Tunisia	21.3	-0.7%
81	Tajikistan	21.2	-1.2%
82	Myanmar	21.1	-9.3%
83	Mozambique	20	+2.1%
84	Puerto Rico	19.9	-0%
85	Iceland	19.8	-0.2%
86	Cuba	19.8	+26.2%
87	Zambia	19.4	-0.1%
88	Ethiopia	17.8	+2.1%
89	Sri Lanka	16.8	+0.7%
90	Croatia	16.7	+24.8%
91	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16.2	-3.3%
92	Angola	15.7	-9%
93	Democratic Republic of the Congo	15.6	+2.1%
94	Slovenia	15.2	+17.3%
95	Guatemala	14.9	+10.7%
96	Cambodia	14.7	+38.5%
97	Sudan	14.5	-13.5%
98	Georgia	14.4	+1.3%
99	Kyrgyzstan	13.6	-1.6%
100	Panama	13.1	+7.1%
101	Uruguay	12.8	-13.8%
102	Kenya	12.8	-1.4%
103	Bolivia	12.6	+7.5%
104	Honduras	12.5	+10.3%
105	Costa Rica	11.7	-5.8%
106	Bhutan	11.2	+3.7%
107	Côte d’Ivoire	11	-13%
108	Nepal	10.7	0%
109	Tanzania	10.6	+9.8%
110	Zimbabwe	10	+11.7%
111	Trinidad and Tobago	9.5	+0.2%
112	Albania	9	+29.1%
113	Armenia	8.6	-12.5%
114	Mongolia	8.3	+6.8%
115	Senegal	8.2	+14.6%
116	Cameroon	7.2	-11.3%
117	North Macedonia	6.8	+22.7%
118	El Salvador	6.6	-0.1%
119	Latvia	6.4	+31%
120	Moldova	6.4	+19.2%
121	Lebanon	6.3	+43.5%
122	Mali	6	+38.5%
123	Estonia	5.9	-33%
124	Uganda	5.8	+0.3%
125	Brunei	5.6	+0.1%
126	Republic of the Congo	5.4	+8.5%
127	Cyprus	5.3	+0.9%
128	Yemen	5.1	+69%
129	Jamaica	4.8	+6.4%
130	Papua New Guinea	4.7	+3%
131	Nicaragua	4.5	+4.5%
132	Lithuania	4.4	+25.7%
133	Montenegro	4.2	+25.7%
134	Guinea	4	0%
135	Mauritius	3.3	+4.9%
136	Botswana	3.2	+26.1%
137	New Caledonia	3.1	0%
138	Gabon	2.6	-18.7%
139	Madagascar	2.5	-5.9%
140	Malta	2.3	0%
141	Bahamas	2.2	+8%
142	Mauritania	2.1	+27.3%
143	Namibia	1.9	+43.2%
144	Malawi	1.8	-0%
145	Guam	1.8	0%
146	Suriname	1.7	-18.1%
147	Burkina Faso	1.7	-0.4%
148	Equatorial Guinea	1.4	-6.3%
149	Guyana	1.4	+7.4%
150	Fiji	1.2	+7.5%
151	Rwanda	1.1	+5.9%
152	Barbados	1.1	+0.3%
153	Benin	1	+1.5%
154	Aruba	1	0%
155	Afghanistan	1	+1.2%
156	Niger	1	+23.9%
157	Palestine	0.9	-16.1%
158	Haiti	0.9	-15.8%
159	Maldives	0.8	-0%
160	Luxembourg	0.8	-5%
161	Togo	0.7	-20.4%
162	French Polynesia	0.7	0%
163	Cayman Islands	0.7	+0.1%
164	U.S. Virgin Islands	0.7	+0.4%
165	Macao	0.7	+32.6%
166	Eswatini	0.6	+18%
167	Bermuda	0.6	+1.6%
168	Liberia	0.6	+56.3%
169	Seychelles	0.6	0%
170	Greenland	0.6	+12%
171	Gambia	0.5	0%
172	Timor-Leste	0.5	-0.5%
173	Cape Verde	0.5	0%
174	Burundi	0.5	+29.1%
175	Faroe Islands	0.5	+0.2%
176	Eritrea	0.5	+10.9%
177	Belize	0.5	-2.1%
178	Somalia	0.4	0%
179	Saint Lucia	0.4	0%
180	Chad	0.4	-7.7%
181	Antigua and Barbuda	0.4	+0.7%
182	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.3	-0.7%
183	Grenada	0.2	0%
184	Gibraltar	0.2	+9.6%
185	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.2	0%
186	Sierra Leone	0.2	+7.6%
187	Djibouti	0.2	-0.1%
188	British Virgin Islands	0.2	0%
189	American Samoa	0.2	-0%
190	Samoa	0.2	-5.9%
191	Dominica	0.2	-0.1%
192	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.1	0%
193	Central African Republic	0.1	0%
194	Comoros	0.1	-0%
195	Solomon Islands	0.1	+2.3%
196	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.1	0%
197	Guinea-Bissau	0.1	0%
198	Vanuatu	0.1	+1.3%
199	Tonga	0.1	-0.2%
200	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.1	0%
201	Nauru	0	+1%
202	Cook Islands	0	0%
203	Kiribati	0	0%
204	Falkland Islands	0	0%
205	Montserrat	0	0%
206	Saint Helena	0	0%
207	Lesotho	0	-99.2%
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 2023 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 9,483.2 TWh in 2023, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest net electricity generation?

Western Sahara, with 0 TWh in 2023.

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 2023 and are not ranked.