List of Largest Electricity Producing Countries
Largest Electricity Producing Countries:- Most electricity is generated with steam turbines using fossil fuels, nuclear, biomass, geothermal, and solar thermal energy.
Other major electricity generation techniques have gas turbines, hydro turbines, wind turbines, and solar photovoltaics. Electricity is the flow of electrons. All matter contains atoms, and an atom has a center called a nucleus.
The nucleus has positively charged particles called protons and uncharged particles called neutrons. The nucleus of an atom is surrounded by negatively charged particles called electrons.
There are various modes of electricity generation dependent on types of energy.
Among resource energies, coal and natural gas are mainly used to generate electricity by combustion (thermal power), and Uranium by nuclear fission (nuclear power) to use their heat for boiling water and rotating steam turbines.
List of Largest Electricity Producing Countries
Country | Electricity Production (Gwh) |
World | 26,823,200 |
China | 7,779,100 |
United States | 4,286,600 |
India | 1,560,900 |
Russia | 1,085,400 |
Japan | 1,004,800 |
Canada | 643,900 |
Brazil | 620,100 |
South Korea | 574,000 |
Germany | 571,900 |
France | 524,900 |
Saudi Arabia | 340,900 |
Iran | 331,600 |
Mexico | 313,200 |
United Kingdom | 312,800 |
Turkey | 305,400 |
italy | 282,700 |
Taiwan | 279,800 |
Indonesia | 275,200 |
Australia | 265,200 |
Spain | 255,800 |
South Africa | 239,500 |
Vietnam | 234,500 |
Egypt | 198,600 |
Thailand | 176,400 |
Sweden | 169,200 |
Malaysia | 159,600 |
Poland | 157,800 |
Norway | 154,500 |
Ukraine | 149,000 |
Argentina | 142,500 |
UAE | 138,400 |
Pakistan | 137,800 |
Iraq | 131,300 |
Netherlands | 122,400 |
Kazakhstan | 109,200 |
Philippines | 101,800 |
Belgium | 90,400 |
Bangladesh | 89,100 |
Chile | 84,300 |
Czech Republic | 81,400 |
Algeria | 78,800 |
Colombia | 75,000 |
Kuwait | 74,900 |
Israel | 74,300 |
Austria | 71,700 |
Switzerland | 70,400 |
Finland | 68,800 |
Uzbekistan | 65,000 |
Venezuela | 58,400 |
Romania | 56,200 |
Portugal | 54,100 |
Singapore | 53,100 |
Peru | 52,700 |
Qatar | 50,500 |
Paraguay | 48,900 |
New Zealand | 44,200 |
Greece | 42,600 |
Bulgaria | 40,900 |
Oman | 38,900 |
Belarus | 38,700 |
Morocco | 38,200 |
Serbia | 35,033 |
Hong Kong | 35,200 |
Hungary | 34,600 |
Ireland | 32,500 |
Ecuador | 32,000 |
Libya | 31,696 |
Bahrain | 31,444 |
Laos | 29,973 |
Nigeria | 29,324 |
Slovakia | 28,400 |
Denmark | 28,100 |
Turkmenistan | 26,600 |
Burma | 24,881 |
Azerbaijan | 22,800 |