Total Electricity Generation by Country 2024
About This Dataset
Total Electricity Generation by Country 2024
Total electricity generated by each country in 2024, in terawatt-hours, across all fuels and technologies, as measured by Ember.
Analysis
China generated 10087 TWh of electricity in 2024, roughly 2.3 times the United States at 4391 TWh and more than the next six countries combined. India is third at 2037 TWh, having passed Russia at 1209 TWh and Japan at 1016 TWh. The steep drop-off matters for every other chart on this topic: from fourth place down, no country reaches a quarter of the US total, so shares and percentages in smaller grids move easily while China and India dominate all absolute figures.
Source:
Ember - Yearly Electricity Data
Key Findings
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China leads in Total Electricity Generation (TWh) with 10,086.90 in 2024.
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Average Total Electricity Generation (TWh) in 2024: 1,582 · median: 625.
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Gap in 2024: China is 29.6× larger than Turkey.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Ember - Yearly Electricity Data
- Coverage
- 15 entities · 2024 · 15 observations
- Measure
- Total Electricity Generation (TWh)
- Last updated
- 15 August 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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