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Rank	Country	Electricity - production (billion kWh)
1	China	4,604
2	United States	3,953
3	Japan	937.6
4	Russia	925.9
5	India	835.3
6	Canada	604.4
7	Germany	556.4
8	France	510
9	Brazil	509.2
10	Korea, South	459.5
11	United Kingdom	346
12	Italy	290.7
13	Spain	275.1
14	Mexico	239.1
15	South Africa	238.3
16	Australia	232
17	Taiwan	229.1
18	Iran	212.8
19	Saudi Arabia	194.4
20	Turkey	185.2
21	Ukraine	172.9
22	Poland	141.8
23	Indonesia	141.2
24	Thailand	139
25	Norway	129.9
26	Sweden	129.4
27	Egypt	123.9
28	Venezuela	123.1
29	Malaysia	118.2
30	Argentina	115.4
31	Vietnam	106
32	Netherlands	105.7
33	Pakistan	93.35
34	Kazakhstan	86.2
35	Belgium	84.2
36	United Arab Emirates	80.94
37	Czech Republic	79.47
38	Finland	67.94
39	Switzerland	64.08
40	Austria	62.98
41	Romania	60.98
42	Chile	60.28
43	Philippines	59.19
44	Paraguay	54.91
45	Israel	53.04
46	Greece	51.5
47	Colombia	51.01
48	Kuwait	49.82
49	Iraq	48.96
50	Uzbekistan	47.42
51	Portugal	46.53
52	Singapore	45.37
53	New Zealand	42
54	Hong Kong	41.22
55	Algeria	40.11
56	Denmark	38.79
57	Syria	38.71
58	Peru	38.7
59	Hungary	37.37
60	Serbia	36.06
61	Bulgaria	34.31
62	Belarus	32.95
63	Slovakia	27.7
64	Libya	26.95
65	Ireland	26.35
66	Bangladesh	25.62
67	Azerbaijan	22.55
68	Korea, North	22.52
69	Puerto Rico	20.92
70	Nigeria	20.13
71	Morocco	19.49
72	Qatar	19.18
73	Oman	17.63
74	Cuba	16.99
75	Ecuador	16.88
76	Iceland	16.48
77	Tajikistan	16.1
78	Turkmenistan	15.5
79	Mozambique	14.98
80	Kyrgyzstan	14.9
81	Croatia	14.67
82	Dominican Republic	14.58
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	14.58
84	Tunisia	14.4
85	Jordan	13.01
86	Slovenia	13
87	Estonia	12.96
88	Lithuania	12.27
89	Bahrain	11.22
90	Sri Lanka	10.71
91	Lebanon	10.41
92	Georgia	10.1
93	Zambia	9.6
94	Uruguay	9.5
95	Costa Rica	9.29
96	Ghana	8.17
97	Guatemala	8.15
98	Zimbabwe	7.72
99	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	7.45
100	Armenia	7.43
101	Trinidad and Tobago	7.42
102	Jamaica	7.32
103	Kenya	6.79
104	Bolivia	6.61
105	Honduras	6.58
106	Panama	6.55
107	Burma	6.43
108	Macedonia	6.39
109	Yemen	6.15
110	El Salvador	5.73
111	Cote d'Ivoire	5.55
112	Cameroon	5.42
113	Albania	5.2
114	Kosovo	5.16
115	Sudan	4.32
116	Mongolia	4.31
117	Tanzania	4.28
118	Angola	3.94
119	Ethiopia	3.72
120	Latvia	3.57
121	Nicaragua	3.42
122	Moldova	3.41
123	Brunei	3.22
124	Nepal	3.16
125	Papua New Guinea	2.97
126	Luxembourg	2.67
127	Montenegro	2.66
128	Mauritius	2.4
129	Senegal	2.23
130	Namibia	2.2
131	Uganda	2.18
132	Malta	2.17
133	Gabon	1.96
134	Bahamas, The	1.95
135	New Caledonia	1.8
136	Guam	1.76
137	Malawi	1.68
138	Suriname	1.58
139	Laos	1.55
140	Bhutan	1.48
141	Cambodia	1.38
142	Madagascar	1.11
143	Macau	1.1
144	Barbados	1.01
145	Fiji	0.97
146	Guinea	0.92
147	Aruba	0.91
148	Virgin Islands	0.84
149	Guyana	0.82
150	Bermuda	0.69
151	French Polynesia	0.67
152	Burkina Faso	0.66
153	Haiti	0.65
154	Cayman Islands	0.6
155	Botswana	0.59
156	Mauritania	0.55
157	Maldives	0.54
158	Mali	0.49
159	Swaziland	0.47
160	Congo, Republic of the	0.45
161	Saint Lucia	0.34
162	Liberia	0.34
163	Somalia	0.32
164	Sint Maarten	0.3
165	Afghanistan	0.29
166	Faroe Islands	0.28
167	Djibouti	0.28
168	Greenland	0.28
169	Eritrea	0.27
170	Seychelles	0.26
171	Cape Verde	0.26
172	Gambia, The	0.22
173	Belize	0.22
174	Burundi	0.21
175	Lesotho	0.2
176	Niger	0.2
177	Grenada	0.2
178	Micronesia, Federated States of	0.19
179	American Samoa	0.19
180	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.18
181	Rwanda	0.16
182	Central African Republic	0.16
183	Togo	0.16
184	Gibraltar	0.16
185	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.13
186	East Timor	0.13
187	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.13
188	Benin	0.13
189	Antigua and Barbuda	0.12
190	Samoa	0.11
191	Andorra	0.1
192	Chad	0.1
193	Equatorial Guinea	0.09
194	Western Sahara	0.09
195	Dominica	0.09
196	Solomon Islands	0.08
197	Guinea-Bissau	0.07
198	Sierra Leone	0.06
199	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.05
200	Comoros	0.05
201	British Virgin Islands	0.05
202	Vanuatu	0.04
203	Sao Tome and Principe	0.04
204	Tonga	0.04
205	Nauru	0.03
206	Cook Islands	0.03
207	Montserrat	0.02
208	Kiribati	0.02
209	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0.02
210	Saint Helena	0.01
211	Niue	0
212	Northern Mariana Islands	0
213	Gaza Strip	0
214	West Bank	0

Definition: This entry is the annual electricity generated expressed in kilowatt-hours. The discrepancy between the amount of electricity generated and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is accounted for as loss in transmission and distribution.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012

See also: Electricity - production map

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