Countries by primary energy production

China had the highest primary energy production of 217 countries in 2017, at 101.426 quadrillion Btu. Western Sahara had the lowest, at 0 quadrillion Btu. The median was 0.05 quadrillion Btu. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest101.426China

Lowest0Western Sahara

Median0.05217 countries

Top 40 countries, 2017

quadrillion Btu. Source: EIA, International Energy Statistics: total energy production, quadrillion Btu (series INTL.44-1-QBTU.A) via Data Commons. Retrieved 2026-10-11.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2017 quadrillion Btu	Change on 2016
1	China	101.426	+1.4%
2	United States	84.406	+4.1%
3	Russia	61.517	+6.4%
4	Saudi Arabia	28.886	-1%
5	Canada	20.232	+8.2%
6	Iran	18.532	+8.8%
7	Australia	16.658	+4.8%
8	India	15.688	+2.2%
9	Indonesia	13.97	-0.8%
10	Iraq	9.957	+2.9%
11	Qatar	9.773	-0.7%
12	United Arab Emirates	9.61	-3.7%
13	Brazil	9.574	+3.9%
14	Norway	9.202	+4.6%
15	Kazakhstan	7.659	+5%
16	Kuwait	7.042	-4.5%
17	Algeria	6.827	-1.2%
18	Mexico	6.41	-9.5%
19	Nigeria	5.986	+4.2%
20	South Africa	5.851	+0.5%
21	Venezuela	5.833	-9.7%
22	United Kingdom	4.94	+0.6%
23	Colombia	4.909	-0.8%
24	France	4.444	-1.7%
25	Malaysia	4.092	+3.4%
26	Germany	3.945	-0.7%
27	Angola	3.848	-1.4%
28	Egypt	3.445	+11.2%
29	Turkmenistan	3.421	+1.7%
30	Oman	3.21	-1.6%
31	Argentina	3.054	-0.3%
32	Thailand	2.659	-2%
33	Libya	2.595	+90.6%
34	Poland	2.448	-3.9%
35	Azerbaijan	2.329	-4.9%
36	Vietnam	2.268	-0.9%
37	Ukraine	2.263	-5.4%
38	Uzbekistan	2.058	-0.1%
39	Netherlands	1.673	-11%
40	Pakistan	1.657	+0.8%
41	South Korea	1.559	-6.8%
42	Trinidad and Tobago	1.413	-7.6%
43	Japan	1.298	+20.4%
44	Ecuador	1.261	-2.2%
45	Türkiye	1.082	-0.2%
46	Bangladesh	1.077	-5%
47	Sweden	1.051	+4.8%
48	Mongolia	1.043	+17%
49	Bahrain	1.033	+1.5%
50	Czechia	1.03	+2.1%
51	Spain	1.015	-3%
52	Romania	0.933	+3.1%
53	Peru	0.923	-2.6%
54	Italy	0.884	-0.6%
55	Bolivia	0.849	-0.9%
56	North Korea	0.788	-11.5%
57	Myanmar	0.763	-1.5%
58	Brunei	0.706	+3.6%
59	Equatorial Guinea	0.704	+1.2%
60	Mozambique	0.67	+39.6%
61	Denmark	0.593	+4.3%
62	Republic of the Congo	0.565	+16.4%
63	Belgium	0.532	-0.7%
64	Papua New Guinea	0.521	-0.9%
65	Philippines	0.504	+1.7%
66	Gabon	0.449	-4.8%
67	Bulgaria	0.431	+4.8%
68	New Zealand	0.414	-9.4%
69	Finland	0.412	+1.6%
70	Serbia	0.4	-0.4%
71	Ghana	0.38	+48.2%
72	Israel	0.371	+4.9%
73	Hungary	0.355	-1.5%
74	Switzerland	0.343	-2%
75	Taiwan	0.296	-24%
76	Austria	0.293	-0.1%
77	Chad	0.291	+11.9%
78	Laos	0.262	+5.5%
79	Timor-Leste	0.256	-12.7%
80	Chile	0.253	+0.6%
81	Greece	0.252	+8%
82	Slovakia	0.231	+2.1%
83	Sudan	0.223	-0.8%
84	Paraguay	0.213	-5.7%
85	Cameroon	0.205	-15.2%
86	Syria	0.193	-0.4%
87	Côte d’Ivoire	0.171	-2.5%
88	Ireland	0.163	+15.6%
89	Cuba	0.146	-8%
90	Tunisia	0.135	-2.5%
91	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.118	+4.2%
92	Slovenia	0.116	+3.2%
93	Portugal	0.11	-22.5%
94	Tajikistan	0.1	+12.5%
95	Croatia	0.094	-9.4%
96	Zimbabwe	0.088	+10.3%
97	Kyrgyzstan	0.085	+21%
98	Yemen	0.079	+36.7%
99	Belarus	0.075	+1.3%
100	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.073	-1.2%
101	Iceland	0.065	+5%
102	Uruguay	0.065	+4.9%
103	Zambia	0.063	+35.7%
104	Tanzania	0.062	-17.7%
105	Guatemala	0.062	-0.5%
106	Singapore	0.057	+14.5%
107	Albania	0.057	-21.3%
108	Afghanistan	0.051	-8.1%
109	Botswana	0.05	+18.3%
110	Ethiopia	0.045	+4.1%
111	Suriname	0.04	+1.4%
112	Niger	0.04	+18.8%
113	Costa Rica	0.039	-0.2%
114	Georgia	0.037	-1.5%
115	Armenia	0.036	+6.7%
116	North Macedonia	0.035	-7.5%
117	Kenya	0.034	+1.1%
118	Bhutan	0.029	-0.2%
119	Panama	0.027	+6.8%
120	Honduras	0.023	+17.2%
121	Morocco	0.021	-0.9%
122	El Salvador	0.018	+14.8%
123	Lithuania	0.018	-3.3%
124	Latvia	0.017	+62.5%
125	Montenegro	0.017	-9.2%
126	Sri Lanka	0.016	-2.9%
127	Nepal	0.016	+9.4%
128	Uganda	0.014	-6.1%
129	Estonia	0.013	+16.7%
130	Nicaragua	0.013	+8.8%
131	Dominican Republic	0.012	+51.5%
132	Cambodia	0.01	+5.3%
133	Jordan	0.008	+24.5%
134	Malawi	0.008	-6.8%
135	Eswatini	0.007	-5.7%
136	Namibia	0.006	+20.4%
137	Mali	0.006	+0.1%
138	Mauritius	0.005	-17.3%
139	Guinea	0.004	+11.6%
140	Senegal	0.004	+11.3%
141	Belize	0.004	-26.1%
142	Luxembourg	0.004	+24.9%
143	Madagascar	0.003	-8.5%
144	Jamaica	0.002	-58.7%
145	Rwanda	0.002	+89.7%
146	Barbados	0.002	-28.6%
147	Macao	0.002	+2.2%
148	Lesotho	0.002	+3.2%
149	Cyprus	0.002	+3.8%
150	Fiji	0.002	-5.1%
151	Lebanon	0.002	+12.3%
152	Hong Kong	0.002	+6%
153	New Caledonia	0.001	+50.3%
154	Greenland	0.001	-3.2%
155	Puerto Rico	0.001	-3.1%
156	Moldova	0.001	-5.2%
157	Mauritania	0.001	-89.8%
158	French Polynesia	0.001	-2.3%
159	Burundi	0.001	+27.1%
160	Togo	0.001	-3.5%
161	Malta	0.001	+21.6%
162	Faroe Islands	0.001	+8.3%
163	Burkina Faso	0.001	+1.2%
164	Central African Republic	0.001	-11.2%
165	Sierra Leone	0.001	+6.4%
166	Aruba	0	-8.9%
167	Haiti	0	+78%
168	Guyana	0	-18.3%
169	Cape Verde	0	-9.6%
170	Guam	0	-8.6%
171	Samoa	0	+19.3%
172	Palestine	0	+8.4%
173	Dominica	0	-24.1%
174	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	+23.8%
175	Maldives	0	+38.5%
176	Bermuda	0	+8.1%
177	Somalia	0	+43.3%
178	Solomon Islands	0	+8.3%
179	Seychelles	0	+11.1%
180	Vanuatu	0	-29.7%
181	Cayman Islands	0	+350%
182	Eritrea	0	+14.3%
183	U.S. Virgin Islands	0	-45.9%
184	Cook Islands	0	+48.9%
185	Antigua and Barbuda	0	+22%
186	Benin	0	-40%
186	Tonga	0	+20%
188	American Samoa	0	+66.7%
188	Falkland Islands	0	-31.5%
188	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	-37.5%
188	São Tomé and Príncipe	0	-16.7%
192	Kiribati	0	0%
193	Grenada	0	+32%
194	Gambia	0	0%
195	Liberia	0	n/a
196	British Virgin Islands	0	+43.8%
197	Bahamas	0	+5%
198	Saint Lucia	0	0%
199	Guinea-Bissau	0	0%
199	Nauru	0	n/a
201	Djibouti	0	0%
202	Comoros	0	-80%
203	Antarctica	0	-100%
203	French Guiana	0	n/a
203	Gibraltar	0	n/a
203	Guadeloupe	0	n/a
203	Martinique	0	n/a
203	Micronesia	0	n/a
203	Montserrat	0	n/a
203	Niue	0	n/a
203	Northern Mariana Islands	0	n/a
203	Réunion	0	n/a
203	Saint Helena	0	n/a
203	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	n/a
203	Turks and Caicos Islands	0	n/a
203	Tuvalu	0	n/a
203	Western Sahara	0	n/a

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About this ranking

Total primary energy produced in the country in the year (coal, natural gas, crude oil and other liquids, nuclear, and renewable and other sources), in quadrillion British thermal units, as estimated by the U.S. Energy Information Administration in its International Energy Statistics.

Countries only. Production above consumption marks a net energy exporter, such as Saudi Arabia or Canada. Countries without domestic energy sources show 0.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. International Energy Statistics: total energy production, quadrillion Btu (series INTL.44-1-QBTU.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 primary energy production?

China, with 101.426 quadrillion Btu in 2017, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest primary energy production?

Western Sahara, with 0 quadrillion Btu in 2017.

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: total energy production, quadrillion Btu (series INTL.44-1-QBTU.A). Retrieved 2026-10-11.

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