Electricity Generation per Person by Country 2024
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Electricity Generation per Person by Country 2024Iceland leads with 48,424 kWh per person, roughly 72% more than second-placed Norway on 28,173 and around three times the level of Canada or Sweden. Iceland's figure has little to do with household use: cheap geothermal and hydro power attracted aluminium smelters, which now consume the majority of the island's electricity, so a population of 400,000 generates as much as a country many times its size. Norway follows the same hydro-plus-industry pattern. The Gulf states form the other bloc, with Bahrain on 23,615, Kuwait on 18,744, Qatar on 18,593 and the UAE on 16,075, where cheap fuel powers desalination and year-round air conditioning. Bhutan's 13,897 is the outlier, driven entirely by Himalayan hydropower.
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- Data source
- Our World in Data (Ember / Energy Institute)
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 2024 · 10 observations
- Measure
- Electricity Generation per Capita (kWh)
- Last updated
- 15 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
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- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
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