Iran's electricity generation rose from 89.7 in 1996 to 395.8 in 2025.
Iran's primary energy consumption rose from 1,058 in 1995 to 3,590 in 2024.
Iran · Energy
Generation, consumption, mix, dependence and intensity.
26 indicators · 26 with data
Iran's electricity consumption per capita rose from 1,427.1 kWh in 1996 to 4,282.5 kWh in 2025.
Iran's solar electricity generation rose from 0 in 1996 to 0.9 in 2025.
Iran's wind electricity generation rose from 0 in 1996 to 1.3 in 2025.
Iran's hydropower electricity generation rose from 8.8 in 1996 to 13.0 in 2025.
Iran's nuclear electricity generation rose from 0 in 1996 to 7.4 in 2025.
Iran's energy use per capita rose from 17,007.2 kWh in 1995 to 39,203.6 kWh in 2024.
Iran's renewable energy fell from 1.4 % in 1992 to 0.9 % in 2021.
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- Renewable electricitydown −1.5 pts88th of 90
- Fossil fuel electricity shareup +1.5 pts84th of 90
- Low-carbon electricity sharedown −1.5 pts84th of 90
- Hydropower electricity sharedown −1.5 pts64th of 89
- Nuclear electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts29th of 81
- Solar electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts82nd of 90
- Wind electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts73rd of 88
- Coal electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts33rd of 89
- Gas electricity shareup +3.6 pts5th of 87
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- Energy importsdown −6.0 pts99th of 132
- Net electricity imports (% of demand)up +0.6 pts62nd of 90
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- Energy intensity of GDPup +0.3 %154th of 165
- Carbon intensity of electricityup +1.7 %83rd of 90
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- Access to electricity (% of population)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 215
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- Oil productionup +11.0 %5th of 50
- Gas productionup +1.2 %3rd of 49
- Coal productionup +4.6 %40th of 204*