Electricity Consumption by Country

The country that consumes the most electricity is China with 8349.31 billion kWh per year, while the least consumption is in Kiribati with 0.03 billion kWh per year. In terms of per capita use, the highest is Iceland with 50602 kWh per year, while the lowest is Sierra Leone with 14 kWh per year. As a percentage of GDP, the highest is Bhutan with 10.35 percent, and the lowest is Lebanon with 0.05 percent of GDP.

Country ⬍	Electricity consumption, total (billion kWh) ⬍	Electricity consumption per capita (kWh/person) ⬍	Electricity consumption, percent of GDP⬍
Afghanistan	6.12	151	2.3
Albania	6.94	2498	5.14
Algeria	80.13	1762	1.36
Angola	15.53	436	0.43
Antigua and Barbuda	0.32	3447
Argentina	127.08	2799	1.16
Armenia	7.83	2637
Aruba	0.82	7641	6.41
Australia	253.38	9740	4
Austria	68.17	7539	7.22
Azerbaijan	23.89	2356	2.36
Bahamas	2.04	5132	4.28
Bahrain	34.63	22713	5.63
Bangladesh	101.99	602	2.62
Barbados	1.02	3613	6.15
Belarus	33.79	3662	5.6
Belgium	82.23	7040	7.16
Belize	0.60	1490	4.63
Benin	1.43	104
Bermuda	0.58	8958	2.79
Bhutan	11.52	14752	10.35
Bolivia	10.65	882
Bosnia and Herzegovina	12.45	3885	6.26
Botswana	3.74	1533	2.41
Brazil	582.71	2771	5.02
Brunei	5.10	11200
Bulgaria	35.47	5486	10.23
Burkina Faso	2.98	132	3.49
Burma (Myanmar)	21.36	397	1.98
Burundi	0.45	34
Cambodia	13.99	813
Cameroon	5.96	216	1.69
Canada	559.85	14379	3.49
Cape Verde	0.40	770	4.78
Central African Republic	0.13	26
Chad	0.28	15
Chile	86.50	4424	4.52
China	8349.31	5912	4.42
Colombia	76.66	1482	3.4
Comoros	0.11	132
Croatia	16.73	4339	5.58
Cyprus	5.12	3846	5.5
Czechia	63.75	5974	10.08
Democratic Republic of the Congo	15.46	151	2.64
Denmark	34.30	5811	4.33
Djibouti	0.59	519
Dominica	0.15	2245
Dominican Republic	20.04	1784	3
Ecuador	28.37	1592	2.37
Egypt	162.53	1443	1.88
El Salvador	6.47	1030	5.23
Equatorial Guinea	1.36	754
Estonia	8.62	6391	8.88
Ethiopia	11.66	93	0.17
Faroe Islands	0.46	8530
Fiji	0.97	1055
Finland	80.55	14498	7.81
France	431.94	6346	3.79
Gabon	3.13	1288
Gambia	0.41	156
Georgia	13.67	3682	5.52
Germany	512.19	6112	7.75
Ghana	18.38	554	2.04
Greece	49.54	4747	4.86
Grenada	0.22	1882
Guatemala	12.14	680	3.5
Guinea	3.58	255
Guinea-Bissau	0.08	38
Guyana	1.00	1217
Haiti	0.86	75
Honduras	8.34	797	7.71
Hong Kong	44.77	6094	2.35
Hungary	43.83	4563	3.99
Iceland	19.33	50602	9.54
India	1479.00	1038	4.65
Indonesia	349.78	1254	2.68
Iran	322.23	3599
Iraq	66.23	1503	0.92
Ireland	29.72	5701
Israel	63.92	6688	2.74
Italy	301.48	5109	7.64
Ivory Coast	9.99	329	2.32
Jamaica	3.30	1162	6.9
Japan	953.06	7617	4.97
Jordan	20.16	1791	4.95
Kazakhstan	105.65	5273	2.46
Kenya	10.31	190	1.95
Kiribati	0.03	230
Kuwait	77.79	16949	2.61
Kyrgyzstan	13.78	1976	3.59
Laos	9.55	1263
Latvia	6.93	3687	7.18
Lebanon	3.95	688	0.05
Lesotho	0.81	354	2.31
Liberia	0.21	39
Libya	28.74	3979	0.88
Lithuania	11.28	3984	8.23
Luxembourg	6.22	9524	1.74
Macao	5.22	7707
Madagascar	2.51	82	2.35
Malawi	1.59	77	2.01
Malaysia	174.74	5036	3.34
Maldives	0.82	1565
Mali	4.30	186	3.87
Malta	2.75	5178	2.41
Mauritania	1.70	349
Mauritius	2.94	2329	2.86
Mexico	307.34	2390	3.13
Moldova	5.59	2211	8.42
Mongolia	8.74	2545
Montenegro	2.99	4795
Morocco	35.06	939	3.09
Mozambique	12.99	398	6.91
Namibia	3.55	1229
Nepal	9.55	321	1.73
Netherlands	111.71	6311	5.36
New Zealand	40.51	7917
Nicaragua	4.54	675	5.7
Niger	1.58	62
Nigeria	32.67	146	0.42
North Macedonia	6.23	3401	7.94
Norway	124.91	22889	5.23
Oman	39.94	8444	4.16
Pakistan	144.33	592	4.54
Panama	11.04	2509	2.86
Papua New Guinea	4.27	418
Paraguay	14.96	2213	1.89
Peru	53.30	1592	4.66
Philippines	100.82	885	4.02
Poland	167.54	4550	6.38
Portugal	50.57	4847	5.5
Puerto Rico	18.67	5798
Qatar	51.05	19211	1.02
Republic of the Congo	2.67	442
Romania	50.44	2648	4.61
Russia	1020.67	7076	6.12
Rwanda	0.86	63	1.14
Saint Lucia	0.37	2070
Samoa	0.15	697
Sao Tome and Principe	0.05	221
Saudi Arabia	381.12	11845	2.59
Senegal	7.00	397
Serbia	33.49	5025	6.43
Seychelles	0.57	4755
Sierra Leone	0.12	14	0.21
Singapore	57.18	10144	3.4
Slovakia	26.35	4851	6.57
Slovenia	13.52	6401	5.03
Solomon Islands	0.09	115
Somalia	0.40	22
South Africa	204.23	3274	6.99
South Korea	576.57	11158	3.36
Spain	232.84	4873	4.51
Sri Lanka	15.12	682	1.07
Sudan	14.00	283	0.89
Suriname	1.87	3001
Swaziland	1.30	1067	2.61
Sweden	131.12	12503
Switzerland	57.19	6516	1.56
Syria	15.52	691	2.13
Tajikistan	15.03	1476
Tanzania	8.00	124	1.2
Thailand	206.18	2874	5.49
Togo	1.82	200	4.15
Tonga	0.07	666
Trinidad and Tobago	9.00	6590	2.2
Tunisia	19.34	1596	3.51
Turkey	287.32	3381	4.01
Turkmenistan	20.46	2830
Uganda	4.22	89	1.39
Ukraine	98.01	2388	9.89
United Arab Emirates	146.69	14560	3.24
United Kingdom	288.93	4274	3.53
Uruguay	12.20	3598	3.37
USA	4128.18	12359	3.01
Uzbekistan	74.02	2119	2.19
Vanuatu	0.07	224
Vietnam	262.31	2632	5.67
Zambia	14.21	705	2.28
Zimbabwe	8.90	554

Notes: Electricity consumption includes both residential and business use. For the percentage of GDP data, we multiply electricity use by the average electricity price and then divide by GDP. The table shows values for year 2022.

Electricity Consumption and GDP

Sources: Population and GDP data from the World Bank. Electricity consumptioon data from the U.S. EIA. Electricity prices from our electricity price database..