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Rank	Country	Electricity - consumption (billion kWh)
1	China	4,693
2	United States	3,741
3	Japan	859.7
4	Russia	857.6
5	India	600.6
6	Canada	549.5
7	Germany	544.5
8	France	460.9
9	Brazil	455.7
10	Korea, South	455.1
11	United Kingdom	344.7
12	Italy	309.9
13	Spain	267.5
14	Australia	225.4
15	Taiwan	220.8
16	South Africa	212.2
17	Iran	206.7
18	Mexico	181.5
19	Saudi Arabia	174.5
20	Turkey	161
21	Ukraine	134.6
22	Poland	132.2
23	Sweden	132.1
24	Thailand	131.6
25	Indonesia	126.1
26	Norway	115.6
27	Netherlands	112.5
28	Egypt	109.1
29	Argentina	104.7
30	Vietnam	101
31	Malaysia	93.8
32	Kazakhstan	88.11
33	Venezuela	85.85
34	Belgium	84.78
35	Finland	83.09
36	Pakistan	74.35
37	United Arab Emirates	70.58
38	Austria	65.67
39	Greece	59.53
40	Czech Republic	59.26
41	Switzerland	57.5
42	Chile	56.35
43	Iraq	55.66
44	Philippines	54.4
45	Romania	51.46
46	Portugal	48.27
47	Israel	47.16
48	Hong Kong	43.14
49	Kuwait	42.58
50	Hungary	42.57
51	Singapore	41.2
52	Uzbekistan	40.1
53	New Zealand	39.02
54	Colombia	38.82
55	Serbia	35.5
56	Peru	34.25
57	Denmark	32.07
58	Belarus	31.07
59	Algeria	30.5
60	Syria	28.99
61	Slovakia	28.76
62	Bulgaria	28.3
63	Ireland	26.1
64	Bangladesh	23.94
65	Libya	22.89
66	Morocco	21.47
67	Puerto Rico	19.46
68	Croatia	18.87
69	Korea, North	18.85
70	Azerbaijan	18.8
71	Qatar	18.79
72	Nigeria	18.14
73	Tajikistan	16.7
74	Iceland	16.48
75	Ecuador	14.92
76	Slovenia	14.7
77	Cuba	14.2
78	Oman	13.25
79	Turkmenistan	13
80	Dominican Republic	12.87
81	Tunisia	12.49
82	Zimbabwe	12.47
83	Jordan	11.3
84	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10.8
85	Bahrain	10.48
86	Lithuania	10.3
87	Mozambique	10.18
88	Lebanon	9.79
89	Sri Lanka	9.27
90	Georgia	9.26
91	Macedonia	9.02
92	Paraguay	8.5
93	Costa Rica	8.32
94	Guatemala	8.16
95	Uruguay	7.96
96	Zambia	7.61
97	Kyrgyzstan	7.47
98	Estonia	7.43
99	Trinidad and Tobago	7.25
100	Albania	6.59
101	Honduras	6.54
102	Luxembourg	6.45
103	Jamaica	6.4
104	Bolivia	6.3
105	Latvia	6.22
106	Ghana	6.06
107	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	6.04
108	Panama	5.81
109	Armenia	5.8
110	El Salvador	5.76
111	Kenya	5.74
112	Kosovo	5.67
113	Cameroon	4.88
114	Nepal	4.83
115	Yemen	4.65
116	Burma	4.63
117	Moldova	4.46
118	Montenegro	4.1
119	Namibia	3.93
120	Sudan	3.79
121	Macau	3.66
122	Cote d'Ivoire	3.58
123	Tanzania	3.43
124	Mongolia	3.38
125	Angola	3.37
126	Ethiopia	3.36
127	Brunei	3.05
128	Botswana	2.85
129	Papua New Guinea	2.76
130	Nicaragua	2.65
131	Mauritius	2.23
132	Laos	2.23
133	Malta	1.99
134	Uganda	1.96
135	Bahamas, The	1.91
136	Senegal	1.76
137	New Caledonia	1.67
138	Guam	1.64
139	Gabon	1.6
140	Cambodia	1.56
141	Malawi	1.56
142	Suriname	1.44
143	Swaziland	1.21
144	Madagascar	1.03
145	Barbados	0.95
146	Fiji	0.87
147	Guinea	0.86
148	Aruba	0.85
149	Virgin Islands	0.78
150	Guyana	0.69
151	Burkina Faso	0.68
152	Togo	0.67
153	Benin	0.65
154	Bermuda	0.64
155	Jersey	0.63
156	Niger	0.63
157	French Polynesia	0.62
158	Andorra	0.6
159	West Bank	0.55
160	Maldives	0.54
161	Cayman Islands	0.54
162	Congo, Republic of the	0.53
163	Mauritania	0.51
164	Mali	0.46
165	Liberia	0.31
166	Haiti	0.31
167	Saint Lucia	0.31
168	Somalia	0.29
169	Burundi	0.27
170	Faroe Islands	0.27
171	Djibouti	0.26
172	Seychelles	0.24
173	Greenland	0.24
174	Cape Verde	0.24
175	Rwanda	0.24
176	Lesotho	0.24
177	Afghanistan	0.23
178	Eritrea	0.22
179	Gambia, The	0.2
180	Belize	0.2
181	Bhutan	0.18
182	Micronesia, Federated States of	0.18
183	Grenada	0.18
184	American Samoa	0.18
185	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.16
186	Gibraltar	0.16
187	Central African Republic	0.15
188	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.12
189	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.12
190	Antigua and Barbuda	0.11
191	Samoa	0.1
192	Chad	0.09
193	Equatorial Guinea	0.09
194	Western Sahara	0.08
195	Dominica	0.08
196	Solomon Islands	0.07
197	East Timor	0.07
198	Guinea-Bissau	0.07
199	Sierra Leone	0.05
200	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.05
201	Comoros	0.05
202	British Virgin Islands	0.04
203	Vanuatu	0.04
204	Sao Tome and Principe	0.04
205	Tonga	0.04
206	Nauru	0.03
207	Cook Islands	0.03
208	Montserrat	0.02
209	Kiribati	0.02
210	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0.02
211	Saint Helena	0.01
212	Niue	0
213	Northern Mariana Islands	0
214	Gaza Strip	0

Definition: This entry consists of total electricity generated annually plus imports and minus exports, 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 - consumption map

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