Countries ranked by energy use per capita

Every country ranked by energy use per capita, highest to lowest. Netherlands Antilles tops the list at 259,122 kWh; Tuvalu is lowest at 0 kWh.

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Highest

1Netherlands Antilles259,122 kWh
2Qatar214,520 kWh
3Singapore180,701 kWh
4Iceland159,676 kWh
5Bahrain152,038 kWh

Lowest

217Tuvalu0 kWh
216Reunion0 kWh
215Martinique0 kWh
214Northern Mariana Islands0 kWh
213French Guiana0 kWh

Full ranking — all 217 countries

#	Country	Energy use per capita
1	Netherlands Antilles	259,122 kWh
2	Qatar	214,520 kWh
3	Singapore	180,701 kWh
4	Iceland	159,676 kWh
5	Bahrain	152,038 kWh
6	Falkland Islands	141,481 kWh
7	United Arab Emirates	138,026 kWh
8	Brunei	121,980 kWh
9	United States Virgin Islands	116,115 kWh
10	Kuwait	106,399 kWh
11	Trinidad and Tobago	105,988 kWh
12	Norway	99,634 kWh
13	Canada	97,785 kWh
14	Saudi Arabia	96,883 kWh
15	Oman	84,611 kWh
16	United States	76,800 kWh
17	South Korea	69,922 kWh
18	Malta	67,321 kWh
19	Faroe Islands	64,642 kWh
20	Australia	62,595 kWh
21	Russia	62,485 kWh
22	Finland	59,565 kWh
23	Luxembourg	59,048 kWh
24	Sweden	57,510 kWh
25	Belgium	54,871 kWh
26	Taiwan	54,013 kWh
27	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	53,393 kWh
28	Netherlands	50,824 kWh
29	American Samoa	49,546 kWh
30	Turkmenistan	49,525 kWh
31	Greenland	48,337 kWh
32	New Caledonia	48,007 kWh
33	Cayman Islands	47,728 kWh
34	Aruba	45,575 kWh
35	Austria	45,208 kWh
36	New Zealand	44,712 kWh
37	Montserrat	42,512 kWh
38	Kazakhstan	41,865 kWh
39	Estonia	40,986 kWh
40	Turks and Caicos Islands	40,966 kWh
41	Iran	39,204 kWh
42	Malaysia	38,866 kWh
43	Japan	38,745 kWh
44	Switzerland	38,026 kWh
45	France	37,866 kWh
46	Germany	37,793 kWh
47	Slovenia	37,361 kWh
48	Bermuda	37,280 kWh
49	Hong Kong	36,809 kWh
50	Cook Islands	36,658 kWh
51	Czechia	36,590 kWh
52	Bahamas	34,643 kWh
53	Belarus	34,633 kWh
54	Ireland	34,594 kWh
55	China	34,514 kWh
56	Spain	33,902 kWh
57	Libya	33,363 kWh
58	Guam	33,296 kWh
59	Antigua and Barbuda	33,242 kWh
60	Slovakia	32,883 kWh
61	Denmark	32,832 kWh
62	Nauru	32,035 kWh
63	Greece	31,966 kWh
64	Seychelles	31,605 kWh
65	Israel	29,591 kWh
66	Poland	29,206 kWh
67	Italy	28,585 kWh
68	Bulgaria	28,382 kWh
69	United Kingdom	28,016 kWh
70	Bosnia and Herzegovina	27,657 kWh
71	Puerto Rico	27,542 kWh
72	Hungary	26,952 kWh
73	Croatia	26,615 kWh
74	Chile	26,245 kWh
75	Portugal	25,922 kWh
76	Lithuania	25,660 kWh
77	Serbia	25,219 kWh
78	Saint Kitts and Nevis	24,994 kWh
79	Venezuela	24,592 kWh
80	Cyprus	24,551 kWh
81	Barbados	23,965 kWh
82	Turkey	23,928 kWh
83	Panama	23,110 kWh
84	Bhutan	22,483 kWh
85	Mongolia	22,107 kWh
86	Argentina	21,514 kWh
87	South Africa	21,287 kWh
88	Latvia	20,722 kWh
89	French Polynesia	20,313 kWh
90	Azerbaijan	20,137 kWh
91	British Virgin Islands	19,955 kWh
92	Thailand	19,825 kWh
93	Guyana	19,789 kWh
94	Macao	19,407 kWh
95	Uzbekistan	19,129 kWh
96	Mauritius	18,847 kWh
97	Georgia	18,798 kWh
98	Romania	18,694 kWh
99	Niue	18,668 kWh
100	Montenegro	18,521 kWh
101	Brazil	18,486 kWh
102	Mexico	17,654 kWh
103	Armenia	16,739 kWh
104	Equatorial Guinea	16,416 kWh
105	Algeria	16,237 kWh
106	North Macedonia	16,220 kWh
107	Iraq	16,002 kWh
108	Ukraine	15,876 kWh
109	Uruguay	15,801 kWh
110	Suriname	15,525 kWh
111	Saint Lucia	14,716 kWh
112	Maldives	14,692 kWh
113	Vietnam	14,618 kWh
114	Grenada	14,322 kWh
115	Ecuador	12,722 kWh
116	Jamaica	12,504 kWh
117	Lebanon	12,290 kWh
118	Dominican Republic	12,253 kWh
119	Moldova	11,849 kWh
120	Dominica	11,693 kWh
121	Colombia	11,645 kWh
122	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11,321 kWh
123	Fiji	10,950 kWh
124	Peru	10,941 kWh
125	Laos	10,887 kWh
126	Indonesia	10,529 kWh
127	Belize	10,112 kWh
128	Tunisia	10,024 kWh
129	Botswana	9,811 kWh
130	Egypt	9,661 kWh
131	Costa Rica	9,627 kWh
132	Bolivia	9,380 kWh
133	Jordan	9,316 kWh
134	Albania	9,168 kWh
135	Tonga	8,848 kWh
136	Saint Helena	8,416 kWh
137	Paraguay	7,908 kWh
138	India	7,813 kWh
139	Cuba	7,674 kWh
140	Kyrgyzstan	7,652 kWh
141	El Salvador	7,386 kWh
142	North Korea	7,301 kWh
143	Morocco	7,257 kWh
144	Gabon	6,763 kWh
145	Samoa	6,672 kWh
146	Namibia	6,258 kWh
147	Micronesia (country)	6,204 kWh
148	Cape Verde	5,932 kWh
149	Philippines	5,633 kWh
150	Eswatini	5,607 kWh
151	Guatemala	5,430 kWh
152	Honduras	5,242 kWh
153	Tajikistan	5,042 kWh
154	Cambodia	4,968 kWh
155	Palestine	4,920 kWh
156	Sri Lanka	4,819 kWh
157	Syria	4,726 kWh
158	Vanuatu	4,124 kWh
159	Zimbabwe	4,059 kWh
160	Congo	3,858 kWh
161	Nicaragua	3,823 kWh
162	Mauritania	3,807 kWh
163	Pakistan	3,536 kWh
164	Ghana	3,263 kWh
165	Sao Tome and Principe	3,150 kWh
166	Papua New Guinea	3,096 kWh
167	Bangladesh	3,048 kWh
168	Djibouti	3,002 kWh
169	Senegal	2,700 kWh
170	Kiribati	2,673 kWh
171	Angola	2,660 kWh
172	Cote d'Ivoire	2,612 kWh
173	Myanmar	2,574 kWh
174	Zambia	2,391 kWh
175	Nigeria	2,213 kWh
176	Benin	2,172 kWh
177	Western Sahara	2,104 kWh
178	East Timor	1,983 kWh
179	Comoros	1,821 kWh
180	Nepal	1,776 kWh
181	Mozambique	1,762 kWh
182	Lesotho	1,682 kWh
183	Kenya	1,677 kWh
184	Solomon Islands	1,641 kWh
185	Togo	1,519 kWh
186	Yemen	1,518 kWh
187	Guinea	1,483 kWh
188	Sudan	1,282 kWh
189	Cameroon	1,203 kWh
190	Mali	1,186 kWh
191	Tanzania	1,155 kWh
192	Burkina Faso	1,063 kWh
193	Afghanistan	925 kWh
194	Eritrea	887 kWh
195	Gambia	834 kWh
196	Sierra Leone	806 kWh
197	Guinea-Bissau	693 kWh
198	Ethiopia	686 kWh
199	Uganda	637 kWh
200	South Sudan	611 kWh
201	Haiti	602 kWh
202	Liberia	570 kWh
203	Rwanda	552 kWh
204	Madagascar	514 kWh
205	Niger	511 kWh
206	Malawi	399 kWh
207	Chad	383 kWh
208	Central African Republic	357 kWh
209	Somalia	357 kWh
210	Democratic Republic of Congo	312 kWh
211	Burundi	278 kWh
212	Guadeloupe	0 kWh
213	French Guiana	0 kWh
214	Northern Mariana Islands	0 kWh
215	Martinique	0 kWh
216	Reunion	0 kWh
217	Tuvalu	0 kWh

Common questions

Which country has the highest energy use per capita?

Netherlands Antilles, at 259,122 kWh — the highest of all 217 countries with data.

Which country has the lowest energy use per capita?

Tuvalu, at 0 kWh, ranks lowest among the 217 countries in this list.

How many countries are ranked?

217 countries and territories with recent data are included, ordered from highest to lowest.

Where does the data come from?

Energy Institute (via Our World in Data). The ranking updates as new data is published.

Source: Energy Institute (via Our World in Data). See the data on the interactive energy use per capita map, or browse all country rankings.

Last updated: 3 August 2026.