Energy Statistics

China generated 10087 TWh of electricity in 2024, roughly 2.3 times the United States at 4391 TWh and more than the next...

Libya and Turkmenistan both generate essentially 100% of their electricity from fossil fuels, and every country in this...

Turkmenistan generates 100.0% of its electricity from natural gas - effectively its entire grid - followed by Bahrain at...

Bhutan runs on 100.0% hydropower, with Paraguay at 99.4% and Nepal at 98.8% close behind. Hydro is the one clean source...

China generated 0.7 TWh of solar electricity in 2010 and 1174.9 TWh in 2025. Growth was not steady: output nearly triple...

Solar supplied 0.15% of global electricity in 2010 and 8.76% in 2025. The share crossed 1% in 2015, 3% in 2020 and 5% in...

Global solar generation grew from 32.2 TWh in 2010 to 2778.6 TWh in 2025, a factor of about 86 in fifteen years. The abs...

Denmark took 57.2% of its electricity from wind in 2023, already the highest figure in the world and about 2.0 times tha...

Chile led the world in 2023 at 20.1% of its electricity from solar, ahead of Hungary at 19.5% and Greece at 18.2%. Set a...

China produced 997 TWh of wind electricity in 2024, more than double the United States at 452 TWh, and those two alone g...

China generated 839 TWh of solar electricity in 2024 - more than the next five countries combined and 2.8 times second-p...

Turkmenistan's grid emits 1306 gCO2/kWh, a quarter more than second-placed Uzbekistan at 1040 g and roughly 56 times the...

Ethiopia has the least carbon-intensive electricity in the world at 23.4 gCO2/kWh, with Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay and Cost...

South Africa is the most coal-dependent large grid in the world at 83.5%, followed by India at 74.5%. Scale matters more...

Six countries ran on effectively 100% clean electricity in 2024: Bhutan, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Iceland, Nepal and Paraguay...

Denmark is far clear of every other country, taking 58.4% of its electricity from wind - almost 20 percentage points mor...

Hungary leads the world at 24.2% of its electricity from solar in 2024, ahead of Chile at 22.8% and Spain at 20.8%. The...

Malta tops the list at 389.6% of its energy use, followed by Singapore on 258.4% and Hong Kong on 175.7%. Figures above...

Somalia leads with 95.4% of its energy from renewable sources, followed by Liberia on 92.8% and the Central African Repu...

Iceland leads with 48,424 kWh per person, roughly 72% more than second-placed Norway on 28,173 and around three times th...

France leads with 67.7% of its electricity from nuclear power, the only large economy to have built its grid around the...

The gap between the United States and its closest competitor, Russia, is noteworthy, with the U.S. producing nearly 1.68...

United States output of around 13.3 million barrels a day is the highest any country has ever produced, a position reach...

China's installed solar capacity of 890 GW dwarfs that of the United States and India, which stand at 280 GW and 185 GW,...