Electricity – installed generating capacity

This entry is the total capacity of currently installed generators, expressed in kilowatts (kW), to produce electricity. A 10-kilowatt (kW) generator will produce 10 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity, if it runs continuously for one hour.

Country Comparison Ranking

• Afghanistan

  634,100 kW (2016 est.)

• Albania

  2.109 million kW (2016 est.)

• Algeria

  19.27 million kW (2016 est.)

• American Samoa

  43,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Andorra

  520,000 kW (2010 est.)

• Angola

  2.613 million kW (2016 est.)

• Antigua and Barbuda

  124,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Argentina

  38.35 million kW (2016 est.)

• Armenia

  4.08 million kW (2016 est.)

• Aruba

  296,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Australia

  65.56 million kW (2016 est.)

• Austria

  24.79 million kW (2016 est.)

• Azerbaijan

  7.876 million kW (2016 est.)

• Bahamas, The

  577,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Bahrain

  3.928 million kW (2016 est.)

• Bangladesh

  11.9 million kW (2016 est.)

• Barbados

  269,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Belarus

  10.04 million kW (2016 est.)

• Belgium

  21.56 million kW (2016 est.)

• Belize

  198,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Benin

  321,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Bermuda

  171,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Bhutan

  1.632 million kW (2016 est.)

• Bolivia

  2.764 million kW (2016 est.)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina

  4.676 million kW (2016 est.)

• Botswana

  735,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Brazil

  150.8 million kW (2016 est.)

• British Virgin Islands

  45,200 kW (2016 est.)

• Brunei

  821,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Bulgaria

  10.75 million kW (2016 est.)

• Burkina Faso

  342,400 kW (2016 est.)

• Burma

  5.205 million kW (2016 est.)

• Burundi

  68,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Cabo Verde

  162,500 kW (2016 est.)

• Cambodia

  1.697 million kW (2016 est.)

• Cameroon

  1.558 million kW (2016 est.)

• Canada

  143.5 million kW (2016 est.)

• Cayman Islands

  132,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Central African Republic

  38,300 kW (2016 est.)

• Chad

  48,200 kW (2016 est.)

• Chile

  24.53 million kW (2016 est.)

• China

  1.653 billion kW (2016 est.)

• Colombia

  16.89 million kW (2016 est.)

• Comoros

  27,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Congo, Democratic Republic of the

  2.587 million kW (2016 est.)

• Congo, Republic of the

  591,500 kW (2016 est.)

• Cook Islands

  14,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Costa Rica

  3.584 million kW (2016 est.)

• Cote d'Ivoire

  1.914 million kW (2016 est.)

• Croatia

  4.921 million kW (2016 est.)

• Cuba

  6.998 million kW (2016 est.)

• Cyprus

  1.77 million kW (2016 est.)

• Czechia

  21.63 million kW (2016 est.)

• Denmark

  14.34 million kW (2016 est.)

• Djibouti

  130,300 kW (2016 est.)

• Dominica

  27,800 kW (2016 est.)

• Dominican Republic

  3.839 million kW (2016 est.)

• Ecuador

  8.192 million kW (2016 est.)

• Egypt

  45.12 million kW (2016 est.)

• El Salvador

  1.983 million kW (2016 est.)

• Equatorial Guinea

  331,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Eritrea

  160,700 kW (2016 est.)

• Estonia

  2.578 million kW (2016 est.)

• Eswatini

  295,900 kW (2016 est.)

• Ethiopia

  2.784 million kW (2016 est.)

• European Union

  975 million kW (2015 est.)

• Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

  12,100 kW (2016 est.)

• Faroe Islands

  128,300 kW (2016 est.)

• Fiji

  338,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Finland

  16.27 million kW (2016 est.)

• France

  130.8 million kW (2016 est.)

• French Polynesia

  253,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Gabon

  671,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Gambia, The

  117,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Georgia

  4.641 million kW (2016 est.)

• Germany

  208.5 million kW (2016 est.)

• Ghana

  3.801 million kW (2016 est.)

• Gibraltar

  43,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Greece

  19.17 million kW (2016 est.)

• Greenland

  187,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Grenada

  51,100 kW (2016 est.)

• Guam

  560,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Guatemala

  4.605 million kW (2016 est.)

• Guinea

  550,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Guinea-Bissau

  28,300 kW (2016 est.)

• Guyana

  428,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Haiti

  332,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Honduras

  2.546 million kW (2016 est.)

• Hong Kong

  12.63 million kW (2016 est.)

• Hungary

  8.639 million kW (2016 est.)

• Iceland

  2.772 million kW (2016 est.)

• India

  367.8 million kW (2016 est.)

• Indonesia

  61.43 million kW (2016 est.)

• Iran

  77.6 million kW (2016 est.)

• Iraq

  27.09 million kW (2016 est.)

• Ireland

  9.945 million kW (2016 est.)

• Israel

  17.59 million kW (2016 est.)

• Italy

  114.2 million kW (2016 est.)

• Jamaica

  1.078 million kW (2016 est.)

• Japan

  295.9 million kW (2016 est.)

• Jordan

  4.764 million kW (2016 est.)

• Kazakhstan

  20.15 million kW (2016 est.)

• Kenya

  2.401 million kW (2016 est.)

• Kiribati

  11,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Korea, North

  10.01 million kW (2016 est.)

• Korea, South

  111.2 million kW (2016 est.)

• Kosovo

  1.573 million kW (2016 est.)

• Kuwait

  18.89 million kW (2016 est.)

• Kyrgyzstan

  4.046 million kW (2016 est.)

• Laos

  6.94 million kW (2016 est.)

• Latvia

  2.932 million kW (2016 est.)

• Lebanon

  2.346 million kW (2016 est.)

• Lesotho

  80,400 kW (2016 est.)

• Liberia

  151,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Libya

  9.46 million kW (2016 est.)

• Lithuania

  3.71 million kW (2016 est.)

• Luxembourg

  1.709 million kW (2016 est.)

• Macau

  472,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Madagascar

  675,400 kW (2016 est.)

• Malawi

  375,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Malaysia

  33 million kW (2016 est.)

• Maldives

  278,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Mali

  590,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Malta

  575,100 kW (2016 est.)

• Marshall Islands

  52,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Mauritania

  558,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Mauritius

  894,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Mexico

  72.56 million kW (2016 est.)

• Micronesia, Federated States of

  18,000 kW (2015 est.)

• Moldova

  515,000 kW (2016 est.)
  
  note: excludes Transnistria

• Mongolia

  1.134 million kW (2016 est.)

• Montenegro

  890,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Montserrat

  5,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Morocco

  8.303 million kW (2016 est.)

• Mozambique

  2.626 million kW (2016 est.)

• Namibia

  535,500 kW (2016 est.)

• Nauru

  7,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Nepal

  943,100 kW (2016 est.)

• Netherlands

  34.17 million kW (2016 est.)

• New Caledonia

  996,200 kW (2016 est.)

• New Zealand

  9.301 million kW (2016 est.)

• Nicaragua

  1.551 million kW (2016 est.)

• Niger

  184,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Nigeria

  10.52 million kW (2016 est.)

• Niue

  2,300 kW (2016 est.)

• North Macedonia

  1.828 million kW (2016 est.)

• Norway

  33.86 million kW (2016 est.)

• Oman

  8.167 million kW (2016 est.)

• Pakistan

  26.9 million kW (2016 est.)

• Panama

  3.4 million kW (2016 est.)

• Papua New Guinea

  900,900 kW (2016 est.)

• Paraguay

  8.87 million kW (2016 est.)

• Peru

  14.73 million kW (2016 est.)

• Philippines

  22.13 million kW (2016 est.)

• Poland

  38.11 million kW (2016 est.)

• Portugal

  20.56 million kW (2016 est.)

• Puerto Rico

  6.294 million kW (2016 est.)

• Qatar

  8.796 million kW (2016 est.)

• Romania

  23.94 million kW (2016 est.)

• Russia

  244.9 million kW (2016 est.)

• Rwanda

  191,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

  8,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Saint Kitts and Nevis

  64,200 kW (2016 est.)

• Saint Lucia

  89,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Saint Pierre and Miquelon

  27,600 kW (2016 est.)

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

  54,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Samoa

  45,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Sao Tome and Principe

  18,100 kW (2016 est.)

• Saudi Arabia

  82.94 million kW (2016 est.)

• Senegal

  977,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Serbia

  7.342 million kW (2016 est.)

• Seychelles

  88,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Sierra Leone

  113,300 kW (2016 est.)

• Singapore

  13.35 million kW (2016 est.)

• Slovakia

  7.644 million kW (2016 est.)

• Slovenia

  3.536 million kW (2016 est.)

• Solomon Islands

  38,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Somalia

  85,000 kW (2016 est.)

• South Africa

  50.02 million kW (2016 est.)

• South Sudan

  80,400 kW (2016 est.)

• Spain

  105.9 million kW (2016 est.)

• Sri Lanka

  3.998 million kW (2016 est.)

• Sudan

  3.437 million kW (2016 est.)

• Suriname

  504,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Sweden

  40.29 million kW (2016 est.)

• Switzerland

  20.84 million kW (2016 est.)

• Syria

  9.058 million kW (2016 est.)

• Taiwan

  49.52 million kW (2016 est.)

• Tajikistan

  5.508 million kW (2016 est.)

• Tanzania

  1.457 million kW (2016 est.)

• Thailand

  44.89 million kW (2016 est.)

• Timor-Leste

  600 kW NA (2016 est.)

• Togo

  230,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Tonga

  20,300 kW (2016 est.)

• Trinidad and Tobago

  2.608 million kW (2016 est.)

• Tunisia

  5.768 million kW (2016 est.)

• Turkey

  78.5 million kW (2016 est.)

• Turkmenistan

  4.001 million kW (2016 est.)

• Turks and Caicos Islands

  82,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Tuvalu

  5,100 kW (2011 est.)

• Uganda

  1.02 million kW (2016 est.)

• Ukraine

  57.28 million kW (2016 est.)

• United Arab Emirates

  28.91 million kW (2016 est.)

• United Kingdom

  97.06 million kW (2016 est.)

• United States

  1.087 billion kW (2016 est.)

• Uruguay

  4.808 million kW (2016 est.)

• Uzbekistan

  12.96 million kW (2016 est.)

• Vanuatu

  37,000 kW (2016 est.)

• Venezuela

  31 million kW (2016 est.)

• Vietnam

  40.77 million kW (2016 est.)

• Virgin Islands

  325,000 kW (2016 est.)

• West Bank

  170,000 kW (2016 est.)
  
  note: includes Gaza Strip

• World

  6.386 billion kW (2015 est.)

• Yemen

  1.819 million kW (2016 est.)

• Zambia

  2.573 million kW (2016 est.)

• Zimbabwe

  2.122 million kW (2016 est.)