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Rank	Country	Electricity consumption per capita (kWh per person)
1	Iceland	52,620.99
2	Norway	24,557.76
3	Kuwait	16,090.31
4	Canada	16,020.37
5	Finland	15,787.78
6	Sweden	14,510.44
7	United Arab Emirates	13,281.1
8	Luxembourg	12,675.96
9	United States	11,919.8
10	Guam	10,261.77
11	Australia	10,238.21
12	Cayman Islands	10,226.41
13	Qatar	9,628.04
14	Taiwan	9,502.93
15	Korea, South	9,314.27
16	Bermuda	9,212.51
17	New Zealand	9,015.83
18	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	8,453.1
19	Bahrain	8,395.09
20	Belgium	8,121.97
21	Austria	7,989.3
22	Aruba	7,862.68
23	Singapore	7,695.91
24	Brunei	7,470.9
25	Virgin Islands	7,451.91
26	Slovenia	7,362.45
27	Switzerland	7,255.05
28	Andorra	7,036.74
29	France	7,022.63
30	Japan	6,749.73
31	Netherlands	6,724.19
32	Germany	6,696.93
33	Jersey	6,636.19
34	Saudi Arabia	6,576.34
35	New Caledonia	6,434.35
36	Macau	6,331.91
37	Montenegro	6,236.75
38	Israel	6,212.82
39	Bahamas, The	6,031.34
40	Hong Kong	6,030.6
41	Russia	6,017.5
42	Trinidad and Tobago	5,908.43
43	Estonia	5,829.57
44	Czech Republic	5,822.76
45	Denmark	5,785.2
46	Spain	5,686.29
47	Greece	5,528.51
48	Ireland	5,527.29
49	United Kingdom	5,467.34
50	Faroe Islands	5,432.17
51	Gibraltar	5,373.01
52	Puerto Rico	5,272.39
53	Slovakia	5,245.22
54	Italy	5,058.66
55	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	5,035.03
56	Kazakhstan	5,028.53
57	Serbia	4,878.65
58	Malta	4,858.04
59	Portugal	4,477.13
60	South Africa	4,347.43
61	Macedonia	4,333.52
62	Oman	4,287.82
63	Hungary	4,274.76
64	Croatia	4,212.01
65	Greenland	4,149.41
66	Libya	4,077.76
67	Bulgaria	4,021.07
68	Montserrat	3,962.04
69	Turks and Caicos Islands	3,513.54
70	China	3,493.79
71	Poland	3,441.34
72	Chile	3,301.62
73	Barbados	3,284.29
74	Belarus	3,221.84
75	American Samoa	3,215.83
76	Malaysia	3,214.54
77	Nauru	3,173.38
78	Kosovo	3,089.52
79	Venezuela	3,060.83
80	Ukraine	3,000.84
81	Lithuania	2,921.36
82	Latvia	2,835.85
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,784.01
84	Cook Islands	2,761.44
85	Seychelles	2,685.95
86	Iran	2,620.81
87	Turkmenistan	2,571.8
88	Suriname	2,570.71
89	Argentina	2,481.48
90	Uruguay	2,400.25
91	Saint Kitts and Nevis	2,383.39
92	Lebanon	2,365.29
93	Romania	2,355.31
94	Brazil	2,286.26
95	French Polynesia	2,269.85
96	Jamaica	2,215.16
97	Niue	2,198.58
98	Albania	2,195.57
99	Tajikistan	2,149.74
100	Georgia	2,024.97
101	Turkey	2,018.82
102	Azerbaijan	1,980.28
103	Thailand	1,961.51
104	Armenia	1,952.54
105	Saint Lucia	1,899.15
106	Namibia	1,813.63
107	Costa Rica	1,794.73
108	Iraq	1,788.03
109	Jordan	1,736.09
110	Mauritius	1,701.32
111	Micronesia, Federated States of	1,677.2
112	Panama	1,653.82
113	Grenada	1,627.36
114	Mexico	1,578.6
115	Uzbekistan	1,412.26
116	Maldives	1,374.06
117	Kyrgyzstan	1,359.72
118	Botswana	1,358.42
119	British Virgin Islands	1,343.59
120	Egypt	1,303.65
121	Paraguay	1,299.38
122	Syria	1,286.69
123	Cuba	1,282.14
124	Dominican Republic	1,275.7
125	Moldova	1,220.45
126	Antigua and Barbuda	1,202
127	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,185.08
128	Tunisia	1,163.71
129	Peru	1,159.07
130	Dominica	1,106.45
131	Vietnam	1,103.59
132	Mongolia	1,061.32
133	Gabon	994.83
134	Zimbabwe	988.15
135	Ecuador	980.05
136	Fiji	972.75
137	Saint Helena	962.73
138	El Salvador	945.06
139	Guyana	927.34
140	Swaziland	870.28
141	Colombia	858.11
142	Algeria	816.22
143	Honduras	788.27
144	Korea, North	766.6
145	Morocco	664.52
146	Bolivia	612.34
147	Belize	611.5
148	Guatemala	578.83
149	Zambia	551.04
150	Philippines	524.21
151	Samoa	507.31
152	Indonesia	507.15
153	India	498.39
154	Nicaragua	461.96
155	Cape Verde	455.72
156	Papua New Guinea	436.92
157	Mozambique	432.9
158	Sri Lanka	431.44
159	Pakistan	390.72
160	Tonga	350.46
161	Laos	338.58
162	Djibouti	336.27
163	Bhutan	256.66
164	Ghana	245.82
165	Cameroon	242.57
166	West Bank	209.72
167	Sao Tome and Principe	208.16
168	Kiribati	200.59
169	Yemen	187.55
170	Angola	186.36
171	Cote d'Ivoire	163.26
172	Nepal	161.69
173	Western Sahara	160.06
174	Vanuatu	156.12
175	Mauritania	151.44
176	Bangladesh	148.62
177	Senegal	135.93
178	Kenya	133.4
179	Equatorial Guinea	124.72
180	Solomon Islands	124.09
181	Congo, Republic of the	122.3
182	Lesotho	122.25
183	Gambia, The	111.17
184	Sudan	110.71
185	Nigeria	106.63
186	Cambodia	104.26
187	Togo	96.52
188	Malawi	95.51
189	Burma	84.82
190	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	82.01
191	Liberia	80.15
192	Guinea	78.6
193	Tanzania	73.14
194	Benin	68.03
195	Comoros	65.59
196	East Timor	59.1
197	Uganda	58.2
198	Madagascar	46.9
199	Guinea-Bissau	39.97
200	Burkina Faso	39.57
201	Niger	38.3
202	Eritrea	36.95
203	Ethiopia	36.81
204	Haiti	31.53
205	Central African Republic	29.42
206	Mali	29.41
207	Somalia	29.05
208	Burundi	25.9
209	Rwanda	20.26
210	Sierra Leone	9.83
211	Chad	8.47
212	Afghanistan	7.6
213	Northern Mariana Islands	0.01
214	Gaza Strip	0

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

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