Energy Statistics

India is the standout: 60.3 percent of its population had electricity in 2000 and 99.5 percent did by 2023, an increase...

The Netherlands went from a rounding error to a fifth of its electricity in fifteen years: solar supplied 0.05 percent o...

Denmark wind share nearly tripled in fifteen years, from 20.2 percent in 2010 to 58.7 percent in 2025, which is also the...

Nuclear output ends this series at its highest point, 2,812 TWh in 2025, but the climb from 2,540 TWh in 2000 is only 11...

Wind output multiplied 87-fold across this series, from 31 TWh in 2000 to 2,712 TWh in 2025, and it is the rare energy s...

Coal generation grew 81 percent over this period, from 5,809 TWh in 2000 to 10,490 TWh in 2025, with the peak year being...

World electricity output more than doubled between 2000 and 2025, from 15,279 TWh to 31,734 TWh, a rise of 16,456 TWh. G...

In 2023 Iceland led at 51.1 MWh per person, with Norway second at 24.6. The order at the top is largely unchanged from 2...

Iceland uses the most electricity per person in the world at 48.4 MWh a year, ahead of Norway at 24.9 and Bahrain at 23....

Turkmenistan had the most carbon-intensive electricity in the world in 2023 at 1306 gCO2/kWh, ahead of Uzbekistan at 111...

China produced 886 TWh of wind electricity in 2023, more than double the United States at 421 TWh and almost exactly equ...

China generated 9456 TWh in 2023 against 4254 TWh for the United States, a gap of 5203 TWh - larger than the entire outp...

Every country in this top fifteen generated more than 95% of its electricity from fossil fuels in 2023, led by Libya at...

Turkmenistan led the world at 100.0% of its electricity from gas, followed by Bahrain at 99.8% and Algeria at 98.7%. Nea...

Bhutan, Nepal and Paraguay all sat above 98% hydropower in 2023, with Bhutan highest at 100.0%. Norway at 89.0% is the o...

South Africa remains the most coal-dependent large grid in the world, and this series shows how slowly that changes: 93....

Poland has run the fastest coal exit of any major European economy in this period, from 87.08% in 2010 to 50.64% in 2025...

Spain is the country in this collection where wind has plateaued. The share was 14.87% in 2010, reached 19.77% by 2013,...

Australia's solar share climbed from 0.39% in 2010 to 19.68% in 2025 without a single down year - the most consistent ri...

Brazil ran on 78.19% hydropower in 2010 and 51.78% in 2025 - a fall of over 26 points, but not because it built fewer da...

US solar generation grew from 1.21 TWh in 2010 to 389 TWh in 2025, a rise of more than 320 times and the steepest sustai...

China's wind generation rose from 49 TWh in 2010 to 1,135 TWh in 2025, a twenty-three-fold increase with no year-on-year...

India generated 0.11 TWh of solar electricity in 2010 and 196 TWh in 2025, an increase of more than 1,700 times. Growth...

Vietnam's solar share sat at 0.01% every year from 2010 to 2018 - effectively nothing - then jumped to 2.03% in 2019, 4....