Energy Statistics

This is the sharpest reversal in any national energy series. Nuclear supplied 25.29% of Japan's electricity in 2010, fel...

Nepal had the cleanest electricity in the world in 2023 at 23.4 gCO2/kWh, with Ethiopia, Bhutan, Paraguay and Costa Rica...

China generated 427 TWh of solar electricity in 2022, roughly twice the United States at 205 TWh. India was third at 96...

Seven countries reached effectively 100% clean electricity in 2022 - one more than in 2023 - with Costa Rica and Nepal j...

2022 was the year Europe burned more coal to replace Russian gas, and the ranking reflects it: Poland at 69.8%, Bosnia a...

2021 was a poor wind year across much of Europe, and this table shows it. Denmark still led at 48.8%, but that is more t...

In 2020 no country in the world took more than 12.2% of its electricity from solar, and that leader was Jordan. Honduras...

Jordan topped the world in 2021 with 15.4% of its electricity from solar, more than three points ahead of Chile at 12.0%...

China operates 1173.4 GW of coal capacity - more than every other country in the world put together (976 GW) and nearly...

China has 377.3 GW of hydropower capacity, more than Brazil, the United States and Canada combined (277.6 GW) and about...

The United States still holds the largest nuclear fleet in the world at 96.8 GW, ahead of France at 61.4 GW and China at...

US wind generation rose from 95 TWh in 2010 to 464 TWh in 2025, nearly five times the starting level. The one interrupti...

China generated 3,234 TWh from coal in 2010 and 5,772 TWh in 2025, an increase of 79%. The series contains only two decl...

India's coal generation grew from 643 TWh in 2010 to a peak of 1,518 TWh in 2024, an increase of 136% in fourteen years....

France is the only large economy where nuclear supplies most of the electricity, but the share has fallen over this peri...

Wind supplied 2.69% of British electricity in 2010 and 29.37% in 2025, roughly an eleven-fold rise. Two years break the...

Germany's solar share rose from 1.92% in 2010 to 17.91% in 2025, but not in a straight line. Growth stalled almost compl...

China produced 584 TWh of solar electricity in 2023, about 2.4 times the United States at 239 TWh and more than the next...

Six countries reached effectively 100% clean electricity in 2023 - Ethiopia, Bhutan, DR Congo, Iceland, Paraguay and Nep...

South Africa was the most coal-dependent grid in 2023 at 82.5%, with India second at 75.3%. Six of the fifteen countries...

Denmark took 54.1% of its electricity from wind in 2022, already more than 20 points above Ireland at 33.7%. Uruguay at...

In 2022 Chile stood alone at the top with 17.3% of its electricity from solar, nearly two points clear of Jordan at 15.3...

France is by far the largest net exporter of electricity at 90.0 TWh in 2024 - more than double second-placed Laos at 36...

Italy imported a net 51.0 TWh of electricity in 2024, well ahead of the United Kingdom at 33.2 TWh and Thailand at 32.4...