Japan's electricity generation rose from 672.0 in 1985 to 1,030 in 2025.
Japan's primary energy consumption fell from 5,912 in 1995 to 4,795 in 2024.
Japan · Energy
Generation, consumption, mix, dependence and intensity.
26 indicators · 26 with data
Japan's electricity consumption per capita rose from 5,561 kWh in 1985 to 8,366 kWh in 2025.
Japan's solar electricity generation rose from 0 in 1965 to 101.06 in 2025.
Japan's wind electricity generation rose from 0 in 1965 to 12.85 in 2025.
Japan's hydropower electricity generation fell from 77.2 in 1996 to 73.9 in 2025.
Japan's nuclear electricity generation fell from 296.5 in 1996 to 94.1 in 2025.
Japan's energy use per capita fell from 47,042.1 kWh in 1995 to 38,745 kWh in 2024.
Japan's renewable energy rose from 4.0 % in 1992 to 8.8 % in 2021.
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- Renewable electricityup +0.6 pts63rd of 90
- Fossil fuel electricity sharedown −1.4 pts61st of 90
- Low-carbon electricity shareup +1.4 pts61st of 90
- Hydropower electricity sharedown −0.6 pts53rd of 89
- Nuclear electricity shareup +0.8 pts21st of 81
- Solar electricity shareup +0.3 pts34th of 90
- Wind electricity shareup +0.1 pts63rd of 88
- Coal electricity sharedown −0.1 pts72nd of 89
- Gas electricity sharedown −1.3 pts30th of 87
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- Energy importsdown −2.7 pts4th of 64
- Net electricity imports (% of demand)unchanged +0.0 pts46th of 90
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- Energy intensity of GDPdown −1.6 %92nd of 165
- Carbon intensity of electricitydown −1.3 %58th of 90
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- Access to electricity (% of population)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 215
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- Oil productiondown −20.3 %78th of 204*
- Gas productionup +3.0 %55th of 204*
- Coal productiondown −18.2 %30th of 34