Indicators · Energy
Electricity generation by country
Watch how annual electricity generation changed among selected major economies from 2000 to 2025.
China and the world · formal data
China's share of world electricity generation
China and World both come from one archived Ember 2026 Yearly Electricity Data release, using same-year Total Generation records in TWh.
Source: Ember ↗ · Ember Yearly Electricity Data 2026; same-source, same-year derived sharechinainfigures.com
Ember reports 10,577.71 TWh for China in 2025, while the NBS national total is 10,575.25 TWh—a difference of 2.46 TWh (0.023%). The global share uses Ember for both numerator and denominator; it does not mix the NBS value with the Ember World total.
Annual electricity generation
Selected countries · terawatt-hours
2025
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Source:Our World in Data ↗; recent observations attributed upstream toEmber 2026 ↗.China 2025 official total:National Bureau of Statistics ↗Status: Prototype cross-check; 2024–2025 per-person values use UN medium population projections as the denominator.chinainfigures.com
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This interactive page covers 2000–2025 with animation, sorting, filtering and export. International values remain a prototype cross-check for relative ranks and long-run paths—not a replacement for each country’s final official vintage. Per-person figures divide generation by same-year population; for 2024–2025 the denominator uses UN medium-variant projections via OWID because historical population estimates are not yet complete. China’s official total is cited separately from NBS for cross-check.
First choose total versus per-person, then check whether the filtered set is a fair peer group. Do not mix this prototype cross-check with an unexplained second database into a fake-precision ranking, and do not treat generation as identical to final electricity consumption or installed capacity.
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Revision and update timeline
Electricity-generation governance state reconciled
Aligned the published NBS primary electricity series with its registered lineage and archived communique evidence, added explicit lineage for 2025 mix/context points, and reconciled the catalog with the already-formal Ember world-share section. The animated international ranking remains a prototype cross-check. Published numeric values were unchanged.
Related sources: National Bureau of Statistics of China ↗ · National Bureau of Statistics of China ↗ · National Energy Administration ↗ · National Energy Administration ↗ · Ember ↗
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Global electricity-generation share added
Added China's 2000–2025 share of world electricity generation from one archived official Ember release, with a separate NBS China-total cross-check.
Related sources: Ember ↗ · National Bureau of Statistics of China ↗
Sources and definitions registered; automated checks passed
Data downloads and revision timeline added
Added page-level formal-data CSV files, chart-level CSV/PNG/SVG exports and a bilingual revision timeline to all indicator pages.
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Indicator page published
Published the electricity-generation page with an animated international comparison and a separately cited official China total.
Related sources: National Bureau of Statistics of China ↗
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