Editing Electricity generation (section)

== Electricity generation capacity by country ==
{{Main|List of countries by electricity production}}

The table lists 45 countries with their total electricity capacities. The data is from 2022.
According to the [[Energy Information Administration]], the total global electricity capacity in 2022 was nearly 8.9 [[terawatt]] (TW), more than four times the total global electricity capacity in 1981. The global average per-capita electricity capacity was about 1,120 [[watt]]s in 2022, nearly two and a half times the global average per-capita electricity capacity in 1981. 

[[Iceland]] has the highest installed capacity per capita in the world, at about 8,990 watts. All developed countries have an average per-capita electricity capacity above the global average per-capita electricity capacity, with the [[United Kingdom]] having the lowest average per-capita electricity capacity of all other developed countries.

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{| class="wikitable sortable mw-datatable static-row-numbers"
|-class=static-row-header
! Country
! data-sort-type="number" | Total capacity<br />(GW)
! data-sort-type="number" | Average per capita capacity<br />(watts)
|-class="static-row-header " style="font-weight:bold;"
| World||style="text-align:left;"|8,890||1,120
|-
| {{flagicon|China}} [[China]] || 2,510 || 1,740
|-
| {{flagicon|United States}} [[United States]] || 1,330 || 3,940
|-class="static-row-header " style="font-weight:bold;"
| {{flagicon|European Union}} [[European Union]] || 1,080 || 2,420
|-
| {{flagicon|India}} [[India]] || 556 || 397
|-
| {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Japan]] || 370 || 2,940
|-
| {{flagicon|Russia}} [[Russia]] || 296 || 2,030
|-
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Germany]] || 267 || 3,220
|-
| {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Brazil]] || 222 || 1,030
|-
| {{flagicon|Canada}} [[Canada]] || 167 || 4,460
|-
| {{flagicon|South Korea}} [[South Korea]] || 160 || 3,130
|-
| {{flagicon|France}} [[France]] || 148 || 2,280
|-
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Italy]] || 133 || 2,230
|-
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Spain]] || 119 || 2,580
|-
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]] || 111 || 1,640
|-
| {{flagicon|Turkey}} [[Turkey]] || 107 || 1,240
|-
| {{flagicon|Mexico}} [[Mexico]] || 104 || 792
|-
| {{flagicon|Australia}} [[Australia]] || 95.8 || 3,680
|-
| {{flagicon|Saudi Arabia}} [[Saudi Arabia]] || 85.3 || 2,380
|-
| {{flagicon|Iran}} [[Iran]] || 83.3 || 977
|-
| {{flagicon|Vietnam}} [[Vietnam]] || 72.2 || 721
|-
| {{flagicon|South Africa}} [[South Africa]] || 66.7 || 1,100
|-
| {{flagicon|Poland}} [[Poland]] || 64 || 1,690
|-
| {{flagicon|Thailand}} [[Thailand]] || 63 || 901
|-
| {{flagicon|Ukraine}} [[Ukraine]] || 62.2 || 1,440
|-
| {{flagicon|Egypt}} [[Egypt]] || 61.1 || 582
|-
| {{flagicon|Taiwan}} [[Taiwan]] || 58 || 2,440
|-
| {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Netherlands]] || 53.3 || 3,010
|-
| {{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Sweden]] || 52.1 || 5,100
|-
| {{flagicon|Argentina}} [[Argentina]] || 51.9 || 1,130
|-
| {{flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Pakistan]] || 42.7 || 192
|-
| {{flagicon|Norway}} [[Norway]] || 41.7 || 7,530
|-
| {{flagicon|United Arab Emirates}} [[United Arab Emirates]] || 40.7 || 4,010
|-
| {{flagicon|Malaysia}} [[Malaysia]] || 37.9 || 1,110
|-
| {{flagicon|Chile}} [[Chile]] || 37 || 1,930
|-
| {{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[Venezuela]] || 34.1 || 1,210
|-
| {{flagicon|Kazakhstan}} [[Kazakhstan]] || 29.6 || 1,600
|-
| {{flagicon|Switzerland}} [[Switzerland]] || 27.8 || 2,960
|-
| {{flagicon|Austria}} [[Austria]] || 26.7 || 2,890
|-
| {{flagicon|Algeria}} [[Algeria]] || 25.9 || 590
|-
| {{flagicon|Greece}} [[Greece]] || 24.4 || 2,400
|-
| {{flagicon|Israel}} [[Israel]] || 23.7 || 2,520
|-
| {{flagicon|Finland}} [[Finland]] || 22.2 || 3,980
|-
| {{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Denmark]] || 21.3 || 3,710
|-
| {{flagicon|Ireland}} [[Ireland]] || 13.3 || 2,420
|-
| {{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[New Zealand]] || 11.6 || 2,320
|-
| {{flagicon|Iceland}} [[Iceland]] || 3.24 || 8,990
|}