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Field Listing :: 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

By Country Listing of the values for the Electricity - installed generating capacity field
Country Electricity - installed generating capacity
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.)
Macedonia
1.828 million 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.)
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

Western Sahara
58,000 kW (2016 est.)
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.)