Where the world's electricity comes from

Coal still makes more of the world's electricity than anything else: 34 of every 100 units in 2024, down from 41 in 2007. The sun and the wind, next to nothing in 2000, made 15.

• 34 coal
• 22 gas
• 3 oil and other fossil
• 9 nuclear
• 14 water (hydro)
• 8 wind
• 7 sun (solar)
• 3 plants and other

How to read this: one column for each year, 2000 to 2024. Each column is all the electricity made that year, stacked as 100 units: coal at the bottom, then gas and oil, then the kinds that burn nothing. The numbers on the left count units from the bottom. Ember has 2025 for only 91 countries so far, so the page stops at 2024.

Line up the world's people from those who use the least electricity to those who use the most. The 50 who use least use 12 of every 100 units; the 10 who use most use 31.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person alive in 2024, sorted from the least electricity (top left) to the most (bottom right). The stronger the colour, the more electricity each person in their country uses in a year, on average — at home, at work, in shops, trains and factories. It is a country's average, not what one person uses.

Of the ten countries with the most people, the United States uses the most electricity per person: 12,752 kWh a year — 84 times as much as Nigeria, where it is 152 kWh.

1. India1,402 kWh
2. China7,095 kWh
3. United States12,752 kWh
4. Indonesia1,314 kWh
5. Pakistan627 kWh
6. Nigeria152 kWh
7. Brazil3,572 kWh
8. Bangladesh644 kWh
9. Russia8,237 kWh
10. Ethiopia177 kWh

How to read this: largest country first. Each bar is the electricity used in a year for every person living there; the thin upright line across the bars is the world's 3,787 kWh.

In 2024 the sun made 8.4 times as much electricity as in 2015. Wind and sun together made 4,651 terawatt-hours; coal made 10,540.

coal   wind   sun (solar)

How to read this: each line is the electricity made in a year, 2000 to 2024, in terawatt-hours — a terawatt-hour is a billion kilowatt-hours. The higher the line, the more was made.

Behind every "per person" on this page are all 8,154,219,816 people counted in the countries shown — including the 658,997,666 who had no electricity at home in 2024, about 8 of every 100.

They use almost none of the electricity, but they are counted when it is shared out. That is why the lowest figures on this page are so low: in a country where most homes have no power, the few who have it are averaged with everyone else. Where these people live, and how the count has fallen: Living.

All 201 countries and areas with a figure, from the most electricity per person to the least.

Every country: electricity per person, and what makes it

Country	kWh a person	Clean, of 100	Made most from
Iceland	48,425	100	water (hydro)
Norway	24,866	99	water (hydro)
Bahrain	23,920	0	gas
Kuwait	18,744	2	gas
Qatar	18,593	4	gas
United Arab Emirates	16,053	32	gas
Bhutan	15,742	100	water (hydro)
Canada	15,710	78	water (hydro)
Finland	15,262	95	nuclear
Saudi Arabia	13,385	2	gas
Sweden	13,077	99	water (hydro)
United States	12,752	42	gas
Taiwan	12,430	15	gas
South Korea	12,092	40	coal
Brunei	12,016	0	gas
Guam	11,086	9	oil and other fossil
Greenland	10,745	83	water (hydro)
New Caledonia	10,662	27	coal
Australia	10,543	35	coal
Singapore	10,224	5	gas
Luxembourg	10,044	91	wind
Cayman Islands	9,536	4	oil and other fossil
Bermuda	9,437	2	oil and other fossil
Oman	9,297	5	gas
Aruba	9,254	17	oil and other fossil
Faroe Islands	8,956 (2023)	47	oil and other fossil
Macao	8,719	31	gas
New Zealand	8,441	86	water (hydro)
Russia	8,237	36	gas
Japan	8,213	31	gas
US Virgin Islands	7,935 (2023)	3	oil and other fossil
Israel	7,883	14	gas
Austria	7,860	86	water (hydro)
Belgium	7,340	76	nuclear
Switzerland	7,170	98	water (hydro)
China	7,095	38	coal
France	7,092	95	nuclear
Ireland	6,877	47	gas
Slovenia	6,749	76	nuclear
Estonia	6,747	56	oil and other fossil
Hong Kong	6,583	1	gas
Denmark	6,518	89	wind
Netherlands	6,479	54	gas
Trinidad and Tobago	6,334	0	gas
Germany	6,177	59	wind
Puerto Rico	6,169	6	oil and other fossil
Czechia	6,162	58	nuclear
Kazakhstan	5,872	15	coal
Malta	5,856	16	gas
Turks and Caicos Islands	5,802	4	oil and other fossil
Greece	5,650	49	gas
Spain	5,650	77	wind
Bahamas	5,607	1	oil and other fossil
Gibraltar	5,594	0	gas
Serbia	5,564	32	coal
Malaysia	5,541	20	coal
Portugal	5,538	85	water (hydro)
Bulgaria	5,521	71	nuclear
Italy	5,368	50	gas
Montenegro	5,278	59	water (hydro)
Croatia	5,071	73	water (hydro)
Hungary	5,036	74	nuclear
Belarus	4,993	37	gas
Saint Kitts and Nevis	4,910	9	oil and other fossil
Seychelles	4,831	16	oil and other fossil
Slovakia	4,825	86	nuclear
Libya	4,686	0	gas
United Kingdom	4,590	65	gas
Poland	4,517	31	coal
Chile	4,484	70	water (hydro)
Lithuania	4,473	84	wind
Guadeloupe	4,435 (2023)	35	oil and other fossil
Martinique	4,364 (2023)	26	oil and other fossil
British Virgin Islands	4,361 (2023)	0	oil and other fossil
Kosovo	4,327	9	coal
Iran	4,296	7	gas
Uruguay	4,288	99	wind
Cyprus	4,263	24	oil and other fossil
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4,127	40	coal
Latvia	3,953	73	water (hydro)
Antigua and Barbuda	3,946	8	oil and other fossil
Barbados	3,930	9	oil and other fossil
Türkiye	3,890	46	coal
North Macedonia	3,851	39	coal
American Samoa	3,849	6	oil and other fossil
South Africa	3,847	16	coal
Paraguay	3,811	100	water (hydro)
Georgia	3,706	80	water (hydro)
Brazil	3,572	89	water (hydro)
Argentina	3,538	41	gas
Réunion	3,509 (2023)	57	plants and other
Iraq	3,406	2	gas
Mongolia	3,320	9	coal
Thailand	3,236	15	gas
French Guiana	3,230 (2023)	65	water (hydro)
Turkmenistan	3,204	0	gas
Vietnam	3,042	42	coal
Panama	2,943	68	water (hydro)
Romania	2,928	67	water (hydro)
Venezuela	2,821	91	water (hydro)
Suriname	2,743	53	water (hydro)
Ukraine	2,719 (2022)	72	nuclear
Mexico	2,712	25	gas
Mauritius	2,683	18	oil and other fossil
Kyrgyzstan	2,679	89	water (hydro)
Azerbaijan	2,574	12	gas
Armenia	2,569	61	gas
French Polynesia	2,555	35	oil and other fossil
Uzbekistan	2,322	16	gas
Dominica	2,255 (2023)	13	oil and other fossil
Saint Lucia	2,225	3	oil and other fossil
Costa Rica	2,187	100	water (hydro)
Dominican Republic	2,103	19	coal
Jordan	2,054	24	gas
Grenada	2,048	0	oil and other fossil
Belize	2,038	87	water (hydro)
Egypt	2,025	11	gas
Laos	2,009	77	water (hydro)
Algeria	2,005	1	gas
Moldova	1,997	11	gas
Tunisia	1,952	4	gas
Botswana	1,852	0	coal
Tajikistan	1,851	95	water (hydro)
Ecuador	1,839	72	water (hydro)
Cuba	1,770	4	oil and other fossil
Peru	1,734	60	water (hydro)
Jamaica	1,733	13	gas
Colombia	1,686	61	water (hydro)
Guyana	1,660	3	oil and other fossil
Maldives	1,610	7	oil and other fossil
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,491	13	oil and other fossil
Palestine	1,454	39	oil and other fossil
India	1,402	22	coal
Namibia	1,333	98	water (hydro)
Eswatini	1,328	97	water (hydro)
Indonesia	1,314	18	coal
Gabon	1,252	35	gas
Fiji	1,238	63	water (hydro)
Morocco	1,180	24	coal
Honduras	1,167	55	oil and other fossil
Cambodia	1,134	36	coal
Bolivia	1,090	34	gas
Philippines	1,072	20	coal
North Korea	1,023	63	water (hydro)
Cabo Verde	991	31	oil and other fossil
Syria	984	4	gas
El Salvador	978	91	plants and other
Lebanon	920	44	oil and other fossil
Guatemala	888	68	water (hydro)
Republic of the Congo	850	21	gas
Equatorial Guinea	787	27	gas
Nicaragua	784	62	oil and other fossil
Zambia	779	87	water (hydro)
Sri Lanka	738	56	water (hydro)
Samoa	734	44	oil and other fossil
Zimbabwe	727	57	water (hydro)
Djibouti	685	35	oil and other fossil
Bangladesh	644	2	gas
Ghana	634	36	gas
Pakistan	627	57	gas
Mozambique	476	83	water (hydro)
Mauritania	458	23	oil and other fossil
Papua New Guinea	447	24	oil and other fossil
Senegal	439	20	oil and other fossil
Angola	411	74	water (hydro)
Myanmar	402	48	gas
Nepal	372	100	water (hydro)
Timor-Leste	364	0	oil and other fossil
Côte d’Ivoire	315	29	gas
Sudan	309	80	water (hydro)
Guinea	273	75	water (hydro)
Kenya	261	91	plants and other
Cameroon	251	73	water (hydro)
Lesotho	248	0	coal
Togo	232	30	gas
Mali	223	19	oil and other fossil
Gambia	185	0	oil and other fossil
Ethiopia	177	100	water (hydro)
Comoros	165 (2023)	0	oil and other fossil
Afghanistan	160	87	water (hydro)
Benin	160	4	gas
Democratic Republic of the Congo	159	100	water (hydro)
Nigeria	152	25	gas
Burkina Faso	135	17	oil and other fossil
Solomon Islands	134	9	oil and other fossil
Tanzania	132	33	gas
Yemen	129	11	oil and other fossil
Eritrea	127	11	oil and other fossil
Uganda	107	97	water (hydro)
Liberia	102	54	water (hydro)
Rwanda	86	50	water (hydro)
Malawi	84	96	water (hydro)
Niger	80	3	oil and other fossil
Madagascar	76	42	oil and other fossil
Haiti	73	19	oil and other fossil
South Sudan	47	2	oil and other fossil
Burundi	41	76	water (hydro)
Central African Republic	27 (2023)	100	water (hydro)
Sierra Leone	24	95	water (hydro)
Somalia	23	21	oil and other fossil
Chad	18	5	oil and other fossil

How to read this: kilowatt-hours used in a year for every person living there, in 2024 unless a year in brackets says otherwise (11 places, the newest since 2020). "Clean, of 100" is how many of every 100 units made there came from sources that burn no coal, gas or oil.

• No figure for 22 places. Ember does not count Albania, Andorra, Mayotte, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau, Saint Barthélemy, Anguilla, Saint Martin, San Marino, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man and Wallis and Futuna.
• Too small to share out. Cook Islands, Falkland Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Kiribati, Montserrat, Nauru, Niue, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Tonga and Vanuatu each use less than 0.1 terawatt-hours a year, and Ember gives two decimals — too few to say how much each person uses.
• Too old. The newest figure for Western Sahara is from 2009.
• Oil for cars, ships and planes. This page is about electricity. No source this site may publish counts the oil each country produces or burns, so it is not drawn.

Method: electricity used is Ember's "demand" — what a country makes plus what it buys from its neighbours, less what it sells. Per person is our own division: that number over the UN's count of everyone living in the same place in the middle of the same year, babies included (Ember's own per-person figures agree to within a tenth of one per cent, allowing for their two decimals). What electricity is made from is Ember's generation by fuel; "clean" is Ember's own group — nuclear, water, wind, sun, plants and other renewables; "oil and other fossil" is Ember's "other fossil". The squares are whole shares that add up to exactly 100. "The world as 100 people" sorts every country shown by its use per person and gives each 100th of the people the figure of their country. Ember's release of Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:58:24 GMT was fetched on 2026-09-18.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · Ember · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

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