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World Electricity use per person Ranking

Compare electricity use per person by country, including the top and bottom results, Japan's position and country details.

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01 / RANKING MAP

Compare electricity use per person across the world.

Compare electricity use per person by country on a ten-level world heat map. Explore the top and bottom five, the full ranking and country details.

Japan7,530 kWh/person
Fiji: No dataTanzania: 135 kWh/personWestern Sahara: No dataCanada: 14,093 kWh/personUnited States: 12,839 kWh/personKazakhstan: 5,146 kWh/personUzbekistan: 2,059 kWh/personPapua New Guinea: No dataIndonesia: 1,445 kWh/personArgentina: 2,822 kWh/personChile: 4,373 kWh/personCongo, Dem. Rep.: 129 kWh/personSomalia, Fed. Rep.: No dataKenya: 195 kWh/personSudan: 223 kWh/personChad: 14 kWh/personHaiti: 76 kWh/personDominican Republic: 1,867 kWh/personRussian Federation: 7,285 kWh/personBahamas, The: No dataFalkland Islands: No dataNorway: 23,673 kWh/personGreenland: No dataFr. S. Antarctic Lands: No dataTimor-Leste: No dataSouth Africa: 3,247 kWh/personLesotho: No dataMexico: 2,658 kWh/personUruguay: 3,790 kWh/personBrazil: 3,068 kWh/personBolivia: 890 kWh/personPeru: 1,595 kWh/personColombia: 1,551 kWh/personPanama: 2,715 kWh/personCosta Rica: 2,282 kWh/personNicaragua: 641 kWh/personHonduras: 752 kWh/personEl Salvador: 1,137 kWh/personGuatemala: 733 kWh/personBelize: No dataVenezuela, RB: 1,953 kWh/personGuyana: No dataSuriname: 2,897 kWh/personFrance: 6,447 kWh/personEcuador: 1,676 kWh/personPuerto Rico (US): No dataJamaica: 1,205 kWh/personCuba: 1,462 kWh/personZimbabwe: 504 kWh/personBotswana: 1,641 kWh/personNamibia: 1,232 kWh/personSenegal: 410 kWh/personMali: No dataMauritania: No dataBenin: 115 kWh/personNiger: 68 kWh/personNigeria: 144 kWh/personCameroon: 226 kWh/personTogo: 246 kWh/personGhana: 565 kWh/personCote d'Ivoire: 354 kWh/personGuinea: No dataGuinea-Bissau: No dataLiberia: No dataSierra Leone: No dataBurkina Faso: 133 kWh/personCentral African Republic: No dataCongo, Rep.: 338 kWh/personGabon: 1,023 kWh/personEquatorial Guinea: 792 kWh/personZambia: 727 kWh/personMalawi: No dataMozambique: 391 kWh/personEswatini: 1,200 kWh/personAngola: 379 kWh/personBurundi: No dataIsrael: 7,186 kWh/personLebanon: 975 kWh/personMadagascar: 80 kWh/personWest Bank and Gaza: No dataGambia, The: No dataTunisia: 1,629 kWh/personAlgeria: 1,828 kWh/personJordan: 1,858 kWh/personUnited Arab Emirates: 15,285 kWh/personQatar: 19,963 kWh/personKuwait: 16,496 kWh/personIraq: 1,377 kWh/personOman: 8,203 kWh/personVanuatu: No dataCambodia: 932 kWh/personThailand: 2,965 kWh/personLao PDR: 1,665 kWh/personMyanmar: 368 kWh/personViet Nam: 2,585 kWh/personKorea, Dem. People's Rep.: 789 kWh/personKorea, Rep.: 11,350 kWh/personMongolia: 2,728 kWh/personIndia: 1,182 kWh/personBangladesh: 603 kWh/personBhutan: No dataNepal: 351 kWh/personPakistan: 518 kWh/personAfghanistan: No dataTajikistan: 1,497 kWh/personKyrgyz Republic: 2,069 kWh/personTurkmenistan: 2,778 kWh/personIran, Islamic Rep.: 3,815 kWh/personSyrian Arab Republic: 854 kWh/personArmenia: 2,386 kWh/personSweden: 12,226 kWh/personBelarus: 4,198 kWh/personUkraine: 2,516 kWh/personPoland: 4,370 kWh/personAustria: 7,897 kWh/personHungary: 4,812 kWh/personMoldova: 2,412 kWh/personRomania: 2,585 kWh/personLithuania: 4,387 kWh/personLatvia: 3,768 kWh/personEstonia: 5,298 kWh/personGermany: 6,109 kWh/personBulgaria: 5,361 kWh/personGreece: 4,686 kWh/personTurkiye: 3,731 kWh/personAlbania: 2,892 kWh/personCroatia: 4,484 kWh/personSwitzerland: 7,117 kWh/personLuxembourg: 11,662 kWh/personBelgium: 7,099 kWh/personNetherlands: 6,386 kWh/personPortugal: 5,294 kWh/personSpain: 5,196 kWh/personIreland: 6,298 kWh/personNew Caledonia: No dataSolomon Islands: No dataNew Zealand: 7,989 kWh/personAustralia: 9,801 kWh/personSri Lanka: 644 kWh/personChina: 6,524 kWh/personTaiwan: No dataItaly: 5,137 kWh/personDenmark: 6,165 kWh/personUnited Kingdom: 4,195 kWh/personIceland: 48,998 kWh/personAzerbaijan: 2,367 kWh/personGeorgia: 3,382 kWh/personPhilippines: 925 kWh/personMalaysia: 5,084 kWh/personBrunei Darussalam: 10,674 kWh/personSlovenia: 6,450 kWh/personFinland: 14,819 kWh/personSlovak Republic: 4,675 kWh/personCzechia: 5,877 kWh/personEritrea: 123 kWh/personJapan: 7,530 kWh/personParaguay: 2,389 kWh/personYemen, Rep.: 90 kWh/personSaudi Arabia: 11,911 kWh/personAntarctica: No dataN. Cyprus: No dataCyprus: 3,842 kWh/personMorocco: 997 kWh/personEgypt, Arab Rep.: 1,493 kWh/personLibya: 3,796 kWh/personEthiopia: 113 kWh/personDjibouti: No dataSomaliland: No dataUganda: 95 kWh/personRwanda: 77 kWh/personBosnia and Herzegovina: 3,677 kWh/personNorth Macedonia: 3,320 kWh/personSerbia: 5,090 kWh/personMontenegro: 4,564 kWh/personKosovo: No dataTrinidad and Tobago: 6,664 kWh/personSouth Sudan: 48 kWh/person
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02 / ABOUT THIS DATA

How to read the World Electricity use per person Ranking

Compare electricity use per person by country on a ten-level world heat map. Explore the top and bottom five, the full ranking and country details. This page orders 149 countries and territories by value and divides the ranking into ten map colors.

Top 3
#1 Iceland (48,998 kWh/person), #2 Norway (23,673 kWh/person), #3 Bahrain (23,120 kWh/person)
Japan’s position
World #20 (7,530 kWh/person)
Data period
Latest available year by country

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Electricity use per personFull ranking149 countries

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