Electricity consumption per capita
- World average (population-weighted)
- 4,526 kWh
- across 90 countries, 2025
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
- 175 kWh – 1,942 kWh
- 1,942 kWh – 3,111 kWh
- 3,111 kWh – 4,243 kWh
- 4,243 kWh – 5,841 kWh
- 5,841 kWh – 8,297 kWh
- 8,297 kWh – 28,598 kWh
- No data
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
- Population-weighted mean
- Median
2 series from 1985 to 2025: Population-weighted mean, Median.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2025.
Highest 5
Lowest 5
Source: Our World in Data — energy · per_capita_electricity
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- kilowatt-hours per person (kWh)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · No direction
- Valid range
- 0 – 100000
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source203 countries · 6,325 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0
OWID Energy dataset — https://github.com/owid/energy-data
- Priority #2Open at source150 countries · 5,057 obs. · → 2024 · CC BY 4.0
Electric power consumption measures the production of power plants and combined heat and power plants less transmission, distribution, and transformation losses and own use by heat and power plants. Source: IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
128 of 218 countries have no value for 2025.
- Indonesia
- DR Congo
- Tanzania
- Myanmar
- Sudan
- Uganda
- Algeria
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- Yemen
- Angola
- Ukraine
- Saudi Arabia
- Mozambique
- Ghana
- Madagascar
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cameroon
- Nepal
- Venezuela
- Niger
- North Korea
- Syria
- Mali
- 104 more
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=electricity-consumption-per-capita" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'