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Electricity consumption per capita by country

kilowatt-hours per person · 90 countries ranked · 2025

Rank 1 = highest value; “better” is not defined for this indicator.25 of 90
  1. 1NorwayWorld rank 1st of 90
    up +1.5 %
  2. 2KuwaitWorld rank 2nd of 90
    down −1.8 %
  3. 3QatarWorld rank 3rd of 90
    down −3.0 %
  4. 4CanadaWorld rank 4th of 90
    up +1.5 %
  5. 5SwedenWorld rank 5th of 90
    down −1.3 %
  6. 6FinlandWorld rank 6th of 90
    down −0.4 %
  7. 7United StatesWorld rank 7th of 90
    up +2.4 %
  8. 8TaiwanWorld rank 8th of 90
    up +0.4 %
  9. 9South KoreaWorld rank 9th of 90
    down −0.0 %
  10. 10AustraliaWorld rank 10th of 90
    up +0.7 %
  11. 11SingaporeWorld rank 11th of 90
    up +0.2 %
  12. 12OmanWorld rank 12th of 90
    up +3.4 %
  13. 13IsraelWorld rank 13th of 90
    up +0.7 %
  14. 14FranceWorld rank 14th of 90
    up +1.3 %
  15. 15JapanWorld rank 15th of 90
    up +1.9 %
  16. 16RussiaWorld rank 16th of 90
    down −0.8 %
  17. 17New ZealandWorld rank 17th of 90
    down −2.2 %
  18. 18AustriaWorld rank 18th of 90
    down −6.6 %
  19. 19ChinaWorld rank 19th of 90
    up +5.2 %
  20. 20NetherlandsWorld rank 20th of 90
    up +9.6 %
  21. 21SwitzerlandWorld rank 21st of 90
    down −17.5 %
  22. 22CzechiaWorld rank 22nd of 90
    up +4.9 %
  23. 23SloveniaWorld rank 23rd of 90
    down −11.1 %
  24. 24ParaguayWorld rank 24th of 90
    up +5.7 %
  25. 25Puerto RicoWorld rank 25th of 90
    up +1.6 %

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Electricity consumption per capita, 2025. Quantile classes; hatched = no data.

Electricity consumption per capita, 2025World map of Electricity consumption per capita (2025) for 90 countries, from 175 kWh to 28,598 kWh.Fiji: —Tanzania: —W. Sahara: —Canada: 16,259 kWhUnited States: 13,015 kWhKazakhstan: 5,934 kWhUzbekistan: 2,340 kWhPapua New Guinea: —Indonesia: —Argentina: 3,340 kWhChile: 4,456 kWhDR Congo: —Somalia: —Kenya: 244 kWhSudan: —Chad: —Haiti: —Dominican Republic: 1,969 kWhRussia: 8,283 kWhBahamas: —Falkland Is.: —Norway: 28,598 kWhGreenland: —Fr. S. Antarctic Lands: —Timor-Leste: —South Africa: 3,749 kWhLesotho: —Mexico: 2,705 kWhUruguay: 3,528 kWhBrazil: 3,527 kWhBolivia: 1,083 kWhPeru: 1,748 kWhColombia: 1,691 kWhPanama: —Costa Rica: 2,486 kWhNicaragua: —Honduras: —El Salvador: 1,015 kWhGuatemala: —Belize: —Venezuela: —Guyana: —Suriname: —France: 8,552 kWhEcuador: 2,001 kWhPuerto Rico: 6,265 kWhJamaica: —Cuba: —Zimbabwe: —Botswana: —Namibia: —Senegal: —Mali: —Mauritania: —Benin: —Niger: —Nigeria: 175 kWhCameroon: —Togo: —Ghana: —Côte d'Ivoire: —Guinea: —Guinea-Bissau: —Liberia: —Sierra Leone: —Burkina Faso: —Central African Republic: —Republic of the Congo: —Gabon: —Equatorial Guinea: —Zambia: —Malawi: —Mozambique: —Eswatini: —Angola: —Burundi: —Israel: 8,627 kWhLebanon: —Madagascar: —Palestine: —Gambia: —Tunisia: 1,807 kWhAlgeria: —Jordan: —United Arab Emirates: —Qatar: 18,030 kWhKuwait: 18,402 kWhIraq: —Oman: 9,617 kWhVanuatu: —Cambodia: 995 kWhThailand: 2,628 kWhLaos: —Myanmar: —Vietnam: 3,051 kWhNorth Korea: —South Korea: 12,090 kWhMongolia: 2,755 kWhIndia: 1,422 kWhBangladesh: 589 kWhBhutan: —Nepal: —Pakistan: 764 kWhAfghanistan: —Tajikistan: 2,287 kWhKyrgyzstan: 2,163 kWhTurkmenistan: —Iran: 4,283 kWhSyria: —Armenia: 3,292 kWhSweden: 16,019 kWhBelarus: 5,154 kWhUkraine: —Poland: 4,543 kWhAustria: 8,034 kWhHungary: 4,178 kWhMoldova: 2,056 kWhRomania: 2,634 kWhLithuania: 3,141 kWhLatvia: 3,383 kWhEstonia: 4,545 kWhGermany: 5,953 kWhBulgaria: 5,653 kWhGreece: 5,863 kWhTürkiye: 4,036 kWhAlbania: —Croatia: 3,820 kWhSwitzerland: 7,251 kWhLuxembourg: 2,263 kWhBelgium: 6,199 kWhNetherlands: 7,356 kWhPortugal: 4,911 kWhSpain: 6,011 kWhIreland: 5,831 kWhNew Caledonia: —Solomon Islands: —New Zealand: 8,252 kWhAustralia: 10,615 kWhSri Lanka: 743 kWhChina: 7,474 kWhTaiwan: 12,478 kWhItaly: 4,475 kWhDenmark: 5,548 kWhUnited Kingdom: 4,203 kWhIceland: —Azerbaijan: 2,702 kWhGeorgia: 3,546 kWhPhilippines: 1,054 kWhMalaysia: 5,589 kWhBrunei: —Slovenia: 7,010 kWhFinland: 14,635 kWhSlovakia: 5,315 kWhCzechia: 7,116 kWhEritrea: —Japan: 8,366 kWhParaguay: 6,466 kWhYemen: —Saudi Arabia: —N. Cyprus: —Cyprus: 4,311 kWhMorocco: 1,158 kWhEgypt: 2,076 kWhLibya: —Ethiopia: 246 kWhDjibouti: —Somaliland: —Uganda: —Rwanda: —Bosnia and Herzegovina: 4,599 kWhNorth Macedonia: 3,760 kWhSerbia: 5,475 kWhMontenegro: 3,888 kWhKosovo: —Trinidad and Tobago: —South Sudan: —
  • 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
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Rank over time

Position in the world ranking by year, up to 5 countries. Rank 1 is at the top.

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Rank by year for Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, 2000–2024.