Hydroelectricity Generation by Country

Hydroelectricity generation by country measures the amount of electricity generated from hydroelectric sources in each country, measured in quadrillion British thermal units (quad Btu) per year. The statistics are based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) International Energy Statistics. The table covers 133 countries with a reported 2024 value, from 2019 to 2024. The World total stood at 15.4 quad Btu in 2024, up from 14.44 in 2023.

Hydroelectricity generation measures the electricity produced from hydroelectric sources, as reported in the EIA dataset.

Hydroelectricity Generation by Country

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#	Country	2024 (quad Btu)
1	China CN	4.86
2	Brazil BR	1.43
3	Canada CA	1.17
4	United States US	0.83
5	Russia RU	0.72
6	India IN	0.53
7	Norway NO	0.47
8	Vietnam VN	0.33
9	Venezuela VE	0.25
10	Türkiye TR	0.24
11	France FR	0.24
12	Japan JP	0.24
13	Sweden SE	0.22
14	Colombia CO	0.19
15	Paraguay PY	0.18
16	Italy IT	0.18
17	Switzerland CH	0.15
18	Austria AT	0.15
19	Laos LA	0.14
20	Pakistan PK	0.14
21	Spain ES	0.12
22	Argentina AR	0.11
23	Malaysia MY	0.11
24	Peru PE	0.11
25	Indonesia ID	0.09
26	Chile CL	0.09
27	New Zealand NZ	0.08
28	Germany DE	0.08
29	Ecuador EC	0.08
30	Mexico MX	0.08
31	Tajikistan TJ	0.07
32	Iran IR	0.06
33	North Korea KP	0.06
34	Zambia ZM	0.06
35	Mozambique MZ	0.06
36	Ethiopia ET	0.05
37	Portugal PT	0.05
38	Egypt EG	0.05
39	Romania RO	0.05
40	Finland FI	0.05
41	Kyrgyzstan KG	0.05
42	Australia AU	0.05
43	Iceland IS	0.05
44	DR Congo CD	0.05
45	Sudan SD	0.04
46	Angola AO	0.04
47	Bhutan BT	0.04
48	Georgia GE	0.04
49	Kazakhstan KZ	0.04
50	Nepal NP	0.04
51	Serbia RS	0.04
52	Philippines PH	0.03
53	Myanmar MM	0.03
54	Nigeria NG	0.03
55	Ukraine UA	0.03
56	Ghana GH	0.03
57	Albania AL	0.03
58	Costa Rica CR	0.03
59	Uzbekistan UZ	0.03
60	Panama PA	0.02
61	Cambodia KH	0.02
62	Sri Lanka LK	0.02
63	Croatia HR	0.02
64	Thailand TH	0.02
65	Guatemala GT	0.02
66	United Kingdom GB	0.02
67	Zimbabwe ZW	0.02
68	Cameroon CM	0.02
69	Slovenia SI	0.02
70	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	0.02
71	Uganda UG	0.02
72	Uruguay UY	0.02
73	Slovakia SK	0.01
74	South Korea KR	0.01
75	Taiwan TW	0.01
76	Honduras HN	0.01
77	Bolivia BO	0.01
78	Latvia LV	0.01
79	Kenya KE	0.01
80	Greece GR	0.01
81	Azerbaijan AZ	0.01
82	Ivory Coast CI	0.01
83	Guinea GN	0.01
84	South Africa ZA	0.01
85	Bulgaria BG	0.01
86	Tanzania TZ	0.01
87	Czech Republic CZ	0.01
88	El Salvador SV	0.01
89	Armenia AM	0.01
90	Iraq IQ	0.01
91	Montenegro ME	0.01
92	Poland PL	0.01
93	Malawi MW	0.01
94	Dominican Republic DO	0.01
95	North Macedonia MK	0
96	Congo CG	0
97	Namibia NA	0
98	Papua New Guinea PG	0
99	Mali ML	0
100	Gabon GA	0
101	Madagascar MG	0
102	Suriname SR	0
103	Morocco MA	0
104	Ireland IE	0
105	Syria SY	0
106	Afghanistan AF	0
107	Bangladesh BD	0
108	Lebanon LB	0
109	Nicaragua NI	0
110	Fiji FJ	0
111	Belgium BE	0
112	New Caledonia NC	0
113	Rwanda RW	0
114	Greenland GL	0
115	Lithuania LT	0
116	Belarus BY	0
117	Equatorial Guinea GQ	0
118	Kosovo XK	0
119	Burundi BI	0
120	Eswatini SZ	0
121	Moldova MD	0
122	Senegal SN	0
123	Liberia LR	0
124	Belize BZ	0
125	Hungary HU	0
126	Mauritania MR	0
127	French Polynesia PF	0
128	Sierra Leone SL	0
129	Haiti HT	0
130	Central African Republic CF	0
131	Jamaica JM	0
132	Algeria DZ	0
133	Lesotho LS	0

China alone accounted for about 32 percent of the World total in 2024, and China and Brazil together for about 41 percent; the top three countries accounted for about 48 percent, the top five for about 58 percent, and the top ten for about 70 percent. China's hydroelectricity generation was about 3.4 times that of Brazil, the second-largest generator.

Countries With the Largest Hydroelectricity Generation in 2024

China generated the most hydroelectricity generation in 2024 with 4.86 quad Btu. Brazil ranked second with 1.43 quad Btu, followed by Canada (1.17), United States (0.83), Russia (0.72), India (0.53), Norway (0.47), Vietnam (0.33), Venezuela (0.25), Türkiye (0.24).

Hydroelectricity Generation Around the World

In Asia, China (4.86) leads by a wide margin, ahead of India (0.53) and Vietnam (0.33); Japan (0.24) and Türkiye (0.24) also report notable volumes. In Europe, Norway (0.47) is the largest generator, ahead of France (0.24), Sweden (0.22) and Austria (0.15).

In North America, Canada (1.17) dominates, followed by the United States (0.83) and Mexico (0.08). In South America, Brazil (1.43) leads, ahead of Venezuela (0.25) and Colombia (0.19). In Africa, Zambia (0.06) and Mozambique (0.06) report the largest volumes, while values remain small compared with global totals.

Comparison of Hydroelectricity Generation and Total Generation

From the same EIA dataset, this indicator is reported separately from other generation sources. The comparison is limited to the two indicators taken directly from the same EIA tables.

Global Structure in This Dataset

Hydroelectricity generation figures are concentrated among the largest generators: the top five generators account for about 58 percent of World generation in 2024, while the top ten account for about 70 percent. The structure was stable between 2019 and 2024, with China remaining the largest generator in every year shown.

Largest Changes in Hydroelectricity Generation, 2023-2024

China recorded the largest increase among the listed countries, rising from 4.24 quad Btu in 2023 to 4.86 in 2024 (up 0.62, about 14.6 percent). France rose by 0.05, and Russia by 0.05.

Canada recorded the largest decline, falling from 1.23 to 1.17 quad Btu (down 0.06, about 5.1 percent). Vietnam fell from 0.34 to 0.33 (down 0.02), while Romania declined by 0.01. The World total rose from 14.44 to 15.4 quad Btu (up 0.96, about 6.6 percent).

The trend between 2019 and 2024 shows variations across countries, with some recording steady growth and others experiencing fluctuations.

Total and Ratio Analysis for 2019-2024

The World total for hydroelectricity generation moved between 14.35 and 15.4 quad Btu in this period. It was 14.35 in 2019, 14.78 in 2020, 14.57 in 2021, 14.76 in 2022, 14.44 in 2023, and then 15.4 in 2024.

Hydroelectricity Generation by Country

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#	Country	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
1	China	4.3	4.51	4.37	4.46	4.24	4.86
2	Brazil	1.36	1.35	1.24	1.46	1.44	1.43
3	Canada	1.28	1.3	1.29	1.34	1.23	1.17
4	United States	0.98	0.97	0.86	0.87	0.84	0.83
5	Russia	0.66	0.73	0.73	0.67	0.68	0.72
6	India	0.53	0.51	0.56	0.59	0.5	0.53
7	Norway	0.42	0.48	0.49	0.44	0.46	0.47
8	Vietnam	0.23	0.25	0.27	0.33	0.34	0.33
9	Venezuela	0.17	0.21	0.22	0.22	0.22	0.25
10	Türkiye	0.3	0.27	0.19	0.23	0.21	0.24
11	France	0.19	0.21	0.2	0.15	0.19	0.24
12	Japan	0.27	0.27	0.27	0.25	0.25	0.24
13	Sweden	0.22	0.24	0.24	0.25	0.22	0.22
14	Colombia	0.18	0.17	0.21	0.2	0.19	0.19
15	Paraguay	0.17	0.16	0.14	0.15	0.15	0.18
16	Italy	0.15	0.16	0.15	0.1	0.13	0.18
17	Switzerland	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.1	0.13	0.15
18	Austria	0.14	0.14	0.14	0.12	0.14	0.15
19	Laos	0.07	0.1	0.11	0.13	0.14	0.14
20	Pakistan	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.12	0.12	0.14
21	Spain	0.08	0.1	0.1	0.06	0.08	0.12
22	Argentina	0.09	0.08	0.07	0.08	0.07	0.11
23	Malaysia	0.09	0.09	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.11
24	Peru	0.11	0.1	0.11	0.1	0.1	0.11
25	Indonesia	0.07	0.08	0.08	0.09	0.08	0.09
26	Chile	0.08	0.07	0.06	0.07	0.08	0.09
27	New Zealand	0.09	0.08	0.08	0.09	0.09	0.08
28	Germany	0.07	0.06	0.07	0.06	0.07	0.08
29	Ecuador	0.08	0.08	0.09	0.08	0.09	0.08
30	Mexico	0.08	0.09	0.11	0.12	0.07	0.08
31	Tajikistan	0.07	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.07	0.07
32	Iran	0.11	0.08	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.06
33	North Korea	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.06
34	Zambia	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.06
35	Mozambique	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.06
36	Ethiopia	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.05
37	Portugal	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.02	0.04	0.05
38	Egypt	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
39	Romania	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.05	0.06	0.05
40	Finland	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
41	Kyrgyzstan	0.05	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05
42	Australia	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.05	0.05
43	Iceland	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
44	DR Congo	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.05
45	Sudan	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
46	Angola	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
47	Bhutan	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
48	Georgia	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.04
49	Kazakhstan	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.04
50	Nepal	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.04
51	Serbia	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.04
52	Philippines	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
53	Myanmar	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
54	Nigeria	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
55	Ukraine	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.03
56	Ghana	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
57	Albania	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.03
58	Costa Rica	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
59	Uzbekistan	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03
60	Panama	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.02
61	Cambodia	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
62	Sri Lanka	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
63	Croatia	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02
64	Thailand	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
65	Guatemala	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
66	United Kingdom	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
67	Zimbabwe	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
68	Cameroon	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
69	Slovenia	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.02
70	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
71	Uganda	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
72	Uruguay	0.03	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02
73	Slovakia	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
74	South Korea	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
75	Taiwan	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01
76	Honduras	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
77	Bolivia	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
78	Latvia	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
79	Kenya	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
80	Greece	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.01
81	Azerbaijan	0.01	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.01
82	Ivory Coast	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
83	Guinea	0	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
84	South Africa	0	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
85	Bulgaria	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01
86	Tanzania	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
87	Czech Republic	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
88	El Salvador	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
89	Armenia	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
90	Iraq	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0	0.01
91	Montenegro	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.01	0.01
92	Poland	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
93	Malawi	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
94	Dominican Republic	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
95	North Macedonia	0	0	0	0	0.01	0
96	Congo	0	0	0	0	0	0
97	Namibia	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
98	Papua New Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0
99	Mali	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
100	Gabon	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
101	Madagascar	0	0	0	0	0	0
102	Suriname	0	0	0	0	0	0
103	Morocco	0.01	0	0	0	0	0
104	Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0
105	Syria	0	0	0	0	0	0
106	Afghanistan	0	0	0	0	0	0
107	Bangladesh	0	0	0	0	0	0
108	Lebanon	0	0	0	0	0	0
109	Nicaragua	0	0	0	0	0	0
110	Fiji	0	0	0	0	0	0
111	Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0
112	New Caledonia	0	0	0	0	0	0
113	Rwanda	0	0	0	0	0	0
114	Greenland	0	0	0	0	0	0
115	Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0	0
116	Belarus	0	0	0	0	0	0
117	Equatorial Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0
118	Kosovo	0	0	0	0	0	0
119	Burundi	0	0	0	0	0	0
120	Eswatini	0	0	0	0	0	0
121	Moldova	0	0	0	0	0	0
122	Senegal	0	0	0	0	0	0
123	Liberia	0	0	0	0	0	0
124	Belize	0	0	0	0	0	0
125	Hungary	0	0	0	0	0	0
126	Mauritania	0	0	0	0	0	0
127	French Polynesia	0	0	0	0	0	0
128	Sierra Leone	0	0	0	0	0	0
129	Haiti	0	0	0	0	0	0
130	Central African Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0
131	Jamaica	0	0	0	0	0	0
132	Algeria	0	0	0	0	0	0
133	Lesotho	0	0	0	0	0	0

Methodology

The statistics are based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) International Energy Statistics. Values refer to hydroelectricity generation, in quadrillion British thermal units (quad Btu) per year as in the source, and 2024 figures are from the INTL.33-12 series where listed. Where no value is available, the cell is left empty. A value of 0 indicates that the source reports zero. The sum of individually listed countries does not equal the World total where shown, because the source includes estimates and rounding. This page covers hydroelectricity generation only and does not include other indicators, which are reported separately in the source.