Ranked: The World’s Biggest Electricity Consumers

Key Takeaways

• China now consumes roughly one-third of the world’s electricity, more than the U.S., India, Japan, and Russia combined.
• Canada and the U.S. use the most electricity per person among major economies, driven by large homes, industry, and climate.
• India is already the world’s third-largest electricity consumer, but per capita usage remains far below the global average.

Electricity demand is becoming one of the defining economic stories of the decade, fueled by industrial growth, electric vehicles, air conditioning, and increasingly AI data centers.

This infographic ranks the world’s largest electricity consumers in 2025 using data from Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2026. It compares total electricity demand in terawatt-hours (TWh) alongside per capita consumption in megawatt-hours (MWh).

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