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Energy and environment
Follow generation, installed capacity, energy structure and environmental outcomes while preserving unit and scope differences.
Electricity generation
10,583.4TWh · China · 2025Installed power capacity
3,891GW · year-end 2025Energy mix
30.4%clean energy share · 2025Energy-related CO₂ emissions
12,289.037billion tonnes CO₂ · 2024Read together
Related does not mean interchangeable
Installed capacity is not electricity generation, and either can move differently from the energy mix or emissions. Reading these measures together helps separate infrastructure scale, actual output and environmental outcome.
Related indicators
10 published measures
Electricity generation
Electricity generation
Follow annual generation across ten economies from 2000 to 2025. Switch between total and per-capita views, filter countries and export the chart.
Energy mix
Energy mix
Clean-energy and coal shares in total energy consumption, plus electricity generation by source.
Installed power capacity
Installed power capacity
Total, solar, wind, hydropower and biomass capacity, kept separate from electricity generation.
Energy-related CO₂ emissions
Energy-related CO₂ emissions
China’s territorial fossil-fuel and industrial-process CO₂ since 1950, source structure, world share and same-source country comparison.
Air quality and pollution
Air quality and pollution
Track PM2.5 and good-air days across 339 cities from 2021 to 2025, with a pollutant snapshot and explicit monitoring-scope boundaries.
Water resources and use
Water resources and use
Track China's annual water resources, sectoral use, supply sources and efficiency indicators from 2014 to 2025 with definition breaks preserved.
Forest cover and afforestation
Forest cover and afforestation
China's 1990–2023 forest cover and forest area from WDI/FAOSTAT, major-economy comparison, and 2023–2025 annual afforestation activity from the National Bureau of Statistics.
Coal, oil and natural gas consumption
Coal, oil and natural gas consumption
China’s 1980–2024 coal, oil and natural gas consumption, same-source world shares and an animated country ranking.
Wind, solar and hydro generation
Wind, solar and hydro generation
China’s 2000–2025 actual wind, solar and hydro electricity generation, same-source world shares and an animated country ranking.
Nuclear and fossil generation
Nuclear and fossil generation
China’s 2000–2025 nuclear and fossil electricity generation, same-source world shares and an animated country ranking.
International context
World shares require matching source, year and definition
Use China and the World to see which totals support defensible global shares and which rates, per-capita measures or rankings need a different comparison.
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