Oil Electricity Generation by Country

Oil electricity generation by country measures electricity generated from oil for each country, in billion kilowatt-hours (BkWh) per year. Oil is the smallest of the four fossil-fuel sources in the EIA electricity generation series, well behind coal and natural gas.

Saudi Arabia (180.00 BkWh) generated about a quarter of the world's oil electricity in 2024 — about 2.6 times Iraq (68.00 BkWh). Iran (58.00 BkWh), Kuwait (33.00 BkWh) and Mexico (28.93 BkWh) completed the top five. Empty means no reported value, not zero.

Oil Electricity Generation by Country

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#	Country	2024 (BkWh)
1	Saudi Arabia SA	180
2	Iraq IQ	68
3	Iran IR	58
4	Kuwait KW	33
5	Mexico MX	28.93
6	Egypt EG	24
7	Japan JP	17.54
8	Pakistan PK	17.3
9	Cuba CU	16
10	United States US	15.08
11	Bangladesh BD	12.5
12	Syria SY	11
13	Puerto Rico PR	10.2
14	Spain ES	10.08
15	China CN	9.64
16	Italy IT	9.4
17	Brazil BR	9.39
18	Russia RU	9
19	Libya LY	8.8
20	Indonesia ID	8.03
21	Ecuador EC	8
22	France FR	7
23	Senegal SN	6
24	Argentina AR	5.51
25	Honduras HN	5.5
26	Dominican Republic DO	5.3
27	Canada CA	4.95
28	Germany DE	4.91
29	Mali ML	4.8
30	Greece GR	4.65
31	Yemen YE	4.6
32	India IN	4.27
33	Cyprus CY	4.2
34	Taiwan TW	4.18
35	Australia AU	4.18
36	South Korea KR	3.92
37	South Africa ZA	3.85
38	Colombia CO	3.65
39	Venezuela VE	3.5
40	Jordan JO	3.3
41	Lebanon LB	3
42	Sri Lanka LK	3
43	Sudan SD	3
44	Angola AO	2.7
45	Papua New Guinea PG	2.7
46	Guatemala GT	2.5
47	Poland PL	2.27
48	Bahamas BS	2.23
49	Malaysia MY	2
50	Uzbekistan UZ	2
51	Belarus BY	1.7
52	Guam GU	1.7
53	Nicaragua NI	1.7
54	Mauritania MR	1.6
55	Morocco MA	1.54
56	Jamaica JM	1.5
57	Mauritius MU	1.46
58	Burkina Faso BF	1.4
59	Philippines PH	1.34
60	Guyana GY	1.33
61	United Kingdom GB	1.33
62	Netherlands NL	1.3
63	Estonia EE	1.23
64	Portugal PT	1.15
65	New Caledonia NC	1.14
66	Kenya KE	1.13
67	Guinea GN	1
68	Panama PA	1
69	Barbados BB	0.98
70	Romania RO	0.91
71	Madagascar MG	0.9
72	United Arab Emirates AE	0.9
73	Aruba AW	0.83
74	Oman OM	0.8
75	Suriname SR	0.8
76	Maldives MV	0.79
77	Kazakhstan KZ	0.77
78	Austria AT	0.72
79	El Salvador SV	0.7
80	Haiti HT	0.7
81	Niger NE	0.7
82	North Korea KP	0.7
83	Cayman Islands KY	0.68
84	US Virgin Islands VI	0.66
85	Ireland IE	0.6
86	Bermuda BM	0.6
87	Palestine PS	0.6
88	Mongolia MN	0.57
89	Ghana GH	0.57
90	South Sudan SS	0.55
91	Seychelles SC	0.53
92	Gabon GA	0.53
93	Timor-Leste TL	0.51
94	Gambia GM	0.51
95	French Polynesia PF	0.47
96	Hong Kong HK	0.45
97	Cambodia KH	0.44
98	Peru PE	0.42
99	Fiji FJ	0.42
100	Eritrea ER	0.4
101	Bulgaria BG	0.39
102	Saint Lucia LC	0.39
103	Tanzania TZ	0.38
104	Cape Verde CV	0.36
105	Cameroon CM	0.35
106	Chad TD	0.35
107	Zambia ZM	0.34
108	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0.34
109	Somalia SO	0.34
110	Türkiye TR	0.33
111	Chile CL	0.32
112	Slovakia SK	0.3
113	Congo CG	0.29
114	Sweden SE	0.28
115	Thailand TH	0.28
116	Algeria DZ	0.27
117	Faroe Islands FO	0.26
118	Liberia LR	0.26
119	Turks and Caicos Islands TC	0.26
120	Belgium BE	0.25
121	Grenada GD	0.24
122	Benin BJ	0.24
123	Finland FI	0.23
124	Moldova MD	0.22
125	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0.21
126	Israel IL	0.21
127	Bolivia BO	0.2
128	Norway NO	0.18
129	Singapore SG	0.18
130	North Macedonia MK	0.17
131	British Virgin Islands VG	0.17
132	Uganda UG	0.17
133	American Samoa AS	0.17
134	Uruguay UY	0.15
135	Mozambique MZ	0.15
136	Comoros KM	0.14
137	Djibouti DJ	0.13
138	Dominica DM	0.13
139	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0.13
140	Denmark DK	0.12
141	Ukraine UA	0.12
142	Myanmar MM	0.12
143	Burundi BI	0.12
144	Lithuania LT	0.12
145	Vietnam VN	0.11
146	Afghanistan AF	0.1
147	Greenland GL	0.1
148	Rwanda RW	0.1
149	Solomon Islands SB	0.1
150	Samoa WS	0.1
151	Guinea-Bissau GW	0.08
152	Sao Tome and Principe ST	0.08
153	Malawi MW	0.08
154	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	0.07
155	Czech Republic CZ	0.07
156	Azerbaijan AZ	0.07
157	Tonga TO	0.07
158	Hungary HU	0.06
159	Vanuatu VU	0.06
160	Belize BZ	0.06
161	Botswana BW	0.05
162	Macau MO	0.05
163	Kyrgyzstan KG	0.05
164	Saint Pierre and Miquelon PM	0.05
165	Brunei BN	0.05
166	Gibraltar GI	0.04
167	New Zealand NZ	0.04
168	Nauru NR	0.04
169	Croatia HR	0.04
170	Trinidad and Tobago TT	0.04
171	Switzerland CH	0.03
172	Tunisia TN	0.03
173	Kiribati KI	0.03
174	Cook Islands CK	0.02
175	Ivory Coast CI	0.02
176	Serbia RS	0.01
177	Falkland Islands FK	0.01
178	Kosovo XK	0.01
179	Equatorial Guinea GQ	0.01
180	Costa Rica CR	0.01
181	Slovenia SI	0.01
182	Malta MT	0.01
183	Sierra Leone SL	0.01
184	Namibia NA	0.01
185	Iceland IS	0
186	DR Congo CD	0
187	Niue NU	0
188	Togo TG	0
189	Ethiopia ET	0
190	Bahrain BH	0
191	Central African Republic CF	0
192	Paraguay PY	0
193	Latvia LV	0
194	Lesotho LS	0
195	Nepal NP	0
196	Bhutan BT	0
197	Albania AL	0
198	Eswatini SZ	0
199	Georgia GE	0
200	Luxembourg LU	0
201	Western Sahara EH	0
202	Zimbabwe ZW	0

Saudi Arabia accounted for about 24.5% of the world total in 2024. The top two together held about 33.7%, the top three about 41.6%, the top five about 50.0%, and the top ten about 62.2%.

Change from 2023 to 2024

Mexico recorded the largest increase in absolute terms, rising from 27.82 to 28.93 BkWh (+1.12 BkWh, about 4.0%). The world total fell from 773.94 to 735.93 BkWh (-38.01 BkWh, about 4.9%). The largest decline among reported pairs was Japan, falling from 27.86 to 17.54 BkWh (-10.32 BkWh, about 37.0%).

Japan stands out among major oil generators

The top five were relatively stable overall: Saudi Arabia (-0.9%), Iraq (+0.6%), Iran (+1.6%), Kuwait (+0.7%) and Mexico (+4.0%). Japan was the clear exception, with generation falling 37.0%. Among the ten largest producers, the United States declined by 7.1%, while Pakistan increased by 0.6%, but neither changed by as much as Japan.

2019 to 2024 in this series

Reported world values were 752.37 BkWh in 2019, 700.78 BkWh in 2020, 777.24 BkWh in 2021, 762.88 BkWh in 2022, 773.94 BkWh in 2023 and 735.93 BkWh in 2024. Generation ended about 2.2% below the 2019 level.

Oil electricity in context

At 735.93 BkWh, oil accounted for about 4.1% of the 18,024.02 BkWh generated from fossil fuels worldwide in 2024. The category is concentrated among a relatively small group of producers: Saudi Arabia alone generated 180.00 BkWh, while four of the five largest producers were in the Middle East. The United States ranked tenth with 15.08 BkWh. The ranking reflects electricity generated from oil, not oil production or consumption.

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#	Country	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
1	Saudi Arabia	168.22	164.08	168.81	172.38	181.66	180
2	Iraq	43.75	41.07	45.86	40.59	67.57	68
3	Iran	48.27	49.63	51.78	49.78	57.09	58
4	Kuwait	32.54	35.31	39.51	39.88	32.79	33
5	Mexico	45.35	45.26	50.99	23.45	27.82	28.93
6	Egypt	7.02	2.2	12.92	18.01	24.57	24
7	Japan	34.82	31.56	39.56	42.97	27.86	17.54
8	Pakistan	13.25	17.2	27.12	28.67	17.19	17.3
9	Cuba	17.36	16.12	15.46	13.03	16.52	16
10	United States	18.34	17.34	19.17	22.93	16.23	15.08
11	Bangladesh	14.26	10.18	19.19	25.81	21.89	12.5
12	Syria	11.47	11.38	11.45	11.5	11.19	11
13	Puerto Rico	7.27	9.63	10	10.2	10.2	10.2
14	Spain	12.88	10.29	9.66	10.21	10.34	10.08
15	China	10.53	10.78	10.72	8.2	9.13	9.64
16	Italy	10.15	10.04	8.86	12.35	10.08	9.4
17	Brazil	11.81	12.23	20.42	10.1	9.08	9.39
18	Russia	8.56	7.49	8.53	8.35	9.25	9
19	Libya	11.37	7.86	8.17	8.4	8.84	8.8
20	Indonesia	8.56	7.69	8.68	8.28	7.42	8.03
21	Ecuador	5.77	5.17	4.87	6.85	8.45	8
22	France	5.91	5.61	5.41	6	6.18	7
23	Senegal	4.22	4.84	4.89	5.26	6.7	6
24	Argentina	3.45	6.72	12.29	14.16	8.63	5.51
25	Honduras	4.97	4.55	4.23	4.5	5.64	5.5
26	Dominican Republic	9.5	4.12	4.15	5.37	5.3	5.3
27	Canada	5.27	5.03	4	4.44	4.68	4.95
28	Germany	4.78	4.37	4.26	4.54	5.37	4.91
29	Mali	2.35	2.33	2.4	2.48	4.82	4.8
30	Greece	5.06	4.28	4.44	4.95	4.69	4.65
31	Yemen	2.48	2.04	1.79	1.98	4.54	4.6
32	India	3.78	4.35	3.45	3.84	4.15	4.27
33	Cyprus	4.63	4.25	4.35	4.38	4.23	4.2
34	Taiwan	5.85	4.42	5.33	4.45	3.78	4.18
35	Australia	4.92	4.51	4.66	4.43	3.97	4.18
36	South Korea	9.3	7.29	7.52	6.66	4.67	3.92
37	South Africa	2.04	2.16	2.73	4.12	8.12	3.85
38	Colombia	2.72	2.63	2.81	2.73	3.62	3.65
39	Venezuela	14.14	6.31	5.44	5.71	3.26	3.5
40	Jordan	0.91	0.83	0.93	0.86	3.88	3.3
41	Lebanon	20.47	17.02	9.38	2.38	4.14	3
42	Sri Lanka	5.62	4.41	2.79	2.51	3.2	3
43	Sudan	5.88	6.05	6.61	4.74	2.76	3
44	Angola	2.6	2.45	2.48	2.56	2.7	2.7
45	Papua New Guinea	2.54	2.16	2.55	2.71	2.7	2.7
46	Guatemala	0.53	0.38	0.75	0.79	2.5	2.5
47	Poland	1.77	1.75	2.09	2.35	2.01	2.27
48	Bahamas	2.01	2.02	2.03	2.03	2.19	2.23
49	Malaysia	1.01	0.9	1.01	1.1	2.05	2
50	Uzbekistan	0.72	0.48	1.4	1.48	2.1	2
51	Belarus	0.2	2.13	1.98	1.81	1.66	1.7
52	Guam	1.67	1.63	1.66	1.66	1.66	1.7
53	Nicaragua	1.97	1.14	1.3	1.55	1.7	1.7
54	Mauritania	1.1	1.16	1.13	1.19	1.64	1.6
55	Morocco	0.79	0.69	1.38	4.19	1.83	1.54
56	Jamaica	2.79	1.21	1.23	1.52	1.38	1.5
57	Mauritius	1.36	1.06	1.1	1.53	1.6	1.46
58	Burkina Faso	1.34	1.29	1.4	1.44	1.42	1.4
59	Philippines	3.75	2.47	1.62	2.52	1.3	1.34
60	Guyana	1.11	1.11	1.1	1.24	1.33	1.33
61	United Kingdom	1.49	1.22	1.76	1.84	1.57	1.33
62	Netherlands	1.36	1.29	1.28	1.56	1.46	1.3
63	Estonia	4.32	2.25	3.62	5.17	1.99	1.23
64	Portugal	1.25	1.2	1.23	1.26	1.24	1.15
65	New Caledonia	1.36	1.2	1.12	1.14	1.14	1.14
66	Kenya	1.31	0.75	1.26	1.58	1.31	1.13
67	Guinea	0.74	0.97	0.98	1.02	1.02	1
68	Panama	1.62	0.65	0.53	0.87	1.91	1
69	Barbados	0.99	0.97	0.96	0.98	0.98	0.98
70	Romania	0.6	0.6	0.76	1.11	0.89	0.91
71	Madagascar	1.04	1.07	1.22	1.2	0.88	0.9
72	United Arab Emirates	0.8	0.75	0.82	0.86	0.91	0.9
73	Aruba	0.82	0.83	0.83	0.83	0.83	0.83
74	Oman	1.12	1.38	1.46	1.19	0.78	0.8
75	Suriname	1.05	1.04	1.06	1.16	0.79	0.8
76	Maldives	0.78	0.78	0.79	0.79	0.79	0.79
77	Kazakhstan	0.06	0.06	2.68	1.42	0.5	0.77
78	Austria	0.69	0.7	0.68	0.69	0.78	0.72
79	El Salvador	1.76	0.98	0.99	0.61	0.73	0.7
80	Haiti	0.89	0.88	0.9	0.82	0.66	0.7
81	Niger	0.4	0.39	0.46	0.54	0.73	0.7
82	North Korea	0.93	0.85	0.51	0.57	0.74	0.7
83	Cayman Islands	0.7	0.67	0.68	0.68	0.68	0.68
84	US Virgin Islands	0.65	0.63	0.64	0.66	0.66	0.66
85	Ireland	0.28	0.39	1.39	1.03	0.23	0.6
86	Bermuda	0.6	0.58	0.58	0.62	0.63	0.6
87	Palestine	0.69	0.66	0.69	0.68	0.51	0.6
88	Mongolia	0.37	0.35	0.34	0.34	0.47	0.57
89	Ghana	2.79	0.77	0.6	0.62	0.55	0.57
90	South Sudan	0.55	0.55	0.57	0.5	0.55	0.55
91	Seychelles	0.53	0.52	0.52	0.53	0.53	0.53
92	Gabon	0.42	0.4	0.47	0.54	0.53	0.53
93	Timor-Leste	0.52	0.5	0.51	0.51	0.51	0.51
94	Gambia	0.46	0.48	0.5	0.51	0.51	0.51
95	French Polynesia	0.49	0.46	0.47	0.47	0.47	0.47
96	Hong Kong	0.18	0.16	0.2	0.2	0.44	0.45
97	Cambodia	0.65	0.4	0.5	0.31	0.05	0.44
98	Peru	0.55	0.54	0.59	0.62	0.29	0.42
99	Fiji	0.48	0.4	0.4	0.42	0.42	0.42
100	Eritrea	0.35	0.36	0.37	0.39	0.44	0.4
101	Bulgaria	0.39	0.32	0.36	0.5	0.29	0.39
102	Saint Lucia	0.41	0.37	0.39	0.39	0.39	0.39
103	Tanzania	0.08	0.08	0.1	0.02	0.39	0.38
104	Cape Verde	0.36	0.35	0.35	0.36	0.36	0.36
105	Cameroon	1.03	0.83	0.83	0.87	0.34	0.35
106	Chad	0.33	0.33	0.41	0.37	0.34	0.35
107	Zambia	0.6	0.32	0.12	0	0.01	0.34
108	Antigua and Barbuda	0.35	0.33	0.33	0.34	0.34	0.34
109	Somalia	0.35	0.34	0.34	0.34	0.34	0.34
110	Türkiye	0.34	0.32	0.27	1.23	0.36	0.33
111	Chile	1.17	1.73	3.06	3.06	1.63	0.32
112	Slovakia	0.46	0.41	0.36	0.45	0.35	0.3
113	Congo	0.18	0.19	0.2	0.27	0.29	0.29
114	Sweden	0.22	0.14	0.34	0.43	0.31	0.28
115	Thailand	1.12	0.72	0.72	1.73	0.89	0.28
116	Algeria	0.33	0.3	0.31	0.33	0.27	0.27
117	Faroe Islands	0.23	0.25	0.26	0.26	0.26	0.26
118	Liberia	0.29	0.32	0.25	0.26	0.26	0.26
119	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.26	0.26	0.26	0.26	0.26	0.26
120	Belgium	0.07	0.12	0.17	0.21	0.2	0.25
121	Grenada	0.24	0.22	0.23	0.24	0.24	0.24
122	Benin	0.21	0.23	0.22	0.24	0.24	0.24
123	Finland	0.31	0.2	0.16	0.23	0.23	0.23
124	Moldova	0	0	0.04	0.19	0.3	0.22
125	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.22	0.21	0.21	0.21	0.21	0.21
126	Israel	0.84	0.24	0.15	0.32	0.21	0.21
127	Bolivia	0.29	0.28	0.24	0.23	0.19	0.2
128	Norway	0.34	0.22	0.39	0.18	0.19	0.18
129	Singapore	0.22	0.21	0.56	1.5	0.22	0.18
130	North Macedonia	0.06	0.09	0.13	0.53	0.53	0.17
131	British Virgin Islands	0.16	0.16	0.17	0.17	0.17	0.17
132	Uganda	0.14	0.12	0.13	0.15	0.17	0.17
133	American Samoa	0.16	0.17	0.17	0.17	0.17	0.17
134	Uruguay	0.16	0.81	2.45	1.37	0.97	0.15
135	Mozambique	0.14	0.14	0.17	0.13	0.16	0.15
136	Comoros	0.11	0.13	0.13	0.14	0.14	0.14
137	Djibouti	0.09	0.13	0.13	0.13	0.13	0.13
138	Dominica	0.12	0.12	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.13
139	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.13	0.13	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.13
140	Denmark	0.24	0.26	0.24	0.31	0.3	0.12
141	Ukraine	0.47	0.25	0.2	0.13	0.13	0.12
142	Myanmar	0.11	0.19	0.12	0.11	0.13	0.12
143	Burundi	0.12	0.09	0.12	0.12	0.12	0.12
144	Lithuania	0.07	0.12	0.1	0.34	0.17	0.12
145	Vietnam	2.21	1.06	0.3	0.18	3.52	0.11
146	Afghanistan	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
147	Greenland	0.08	0.09	0.08	0.07	0.11	0.1
148	Rwanda	0.19	0.09	0.15	0.18	0.09	0.1
149	Solomon Islands	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
150	Samoa	0.1	0.11	0.09	0.1	0.1	0.1
151	Guinea-Bissau	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08
152	Sao Tome and Principe	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.08	0.08	0.08
153	Malawi	0.07	0.01	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08
154	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.07	0.07
155	Czech Republic	0.12	0.09	0.09	0.08	0.09	0.07
156	Azerbaijan	0.05	0.05	0.63	0.09	0.11	0.07
157	Tonga	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07
158	Hungary	0.07	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06
159	Vanuatu	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06
160	Belize	0.07	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.05	0.06
161	Botswana	0	0.05	0.09	0.1	0.03	0.05
162	Macau	0.17	0.16	0.04	0.04	0.07	0.05
163	Kyrgyzstan	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.05
164	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
165	Brunei	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.05
166	Gibraltar	0.15	0	0	0	0.04	0.04
167	New Zealand	0	0.01	0.03	0.01	0	0.04
168	Nauru	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
169	Croatia	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.09	0.05	0.04
170	Trinidad and Tobago	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
171	Switzerland	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.03
172	Tunisia	0.03	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
173	Kiribati	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
174	Cook Islands	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
175	Ivory Coast	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
176	Serbia	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01
177	Falkland Islands	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
178	Kosovo	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
179	Equatorial Guinea	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
180	Costa Rica	0.1	0.02	0	0	0.01	0.01
181	Slovenia	0.01	0.01	0.05	0.05	0.01	0.01
182	Malta	0.03	0.06	0.04	0.06	0.02	0.01
183	Sierra Leone	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
184	Namibia	0.01	0.01	0	0	0.01	0.01
185	Iceland	0	0	0	0	0	0
186	DR Congo	0.01	0.01	0	0	0	0
187	Niue	0	0	0	0	0	0
188	Togo	0.02	0.06	0.07	0.07	0	0
189	Ethiopia	0.01	0.01	0	0	0	0
190	Bahrain	0	0	0	0	-	0
191	Central African Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0
192	Paraguay	0	0	0	0	0	0
193	Latvia	0	0	0	0	0	0
194	Lesotho	0	0	0	0	0	0
195	Nepal	0	0	0	0	0	0
196	Bhutan	0	0	0	0	0	0
197	Albania	0	0	0	0	0	0
198	Eswatini	0	0	0	0	0	0
199	Georgia	0	0	0	0	0	0
200	Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0
201	Western Sahara	0	0	0	0	0	0
202	Zimbabwe	0.05	0.04	0	0	0	0

Methodology

The statistics are based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) International Energy Statistics. Values represent annual electricity generation from oil in billion kilowatt-hours (BkWh). Where no value is available, the cell is left empty. A value of 0 indicates that the source reports zero. The sum of the countries listed on this page may not equal the reported world total because the country-level data presented here do not necessarily represent the complete set of values used for the world total. This page covers oil generation only; other sources and total generation are reported separately in the source.