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Who's the Largest Consumer of Electricity per Capita?

Electric Power Consumption Per Capita (kWh), 2013

Energy & Utility | December 26, 2018

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Based on a comparison of 136 countries in 2015, Iceland ranked the highest in electric power consumption per capita with 54,799 kWh followed by Norway and Bahrain. On the other end of the scale was South Sudan with 38.9 kWh, Haiti with 48.5 kWh and Niger with 48.6 kWh.

Data for more countries are available at Electric Power Consumption Per Capita indicator page.

Electric Power Consumption Per Capita	Unit	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Australia	kWh															516	497	490	479	468
Bahrain	kWh															10,426	9,134	9,045	9,895	10,029
Brunei	kWh															8,468	8,399	8,605	8,548	8,516
Canada	kWh															16,818	16,424	15,108	15,138	16,420
Finland	kWh															17,150	16,335	15,227	16,469	15,750
Iceland	kWh															37,651	51,365	52,026	51,440	51,933
Kuwait	kWh															16,753	16,740	16,351	16,759	16,140
Luxembourg	kWh															16,477	15,980	14,414	16,803	15,606
New Zealand	kWh															9,620	9,515	9,360	9,565	9,389
Norway	kWh															24,792	24,815	23,826	25,165	23,239
Qatar	kWh															15,683	14,779	14,476	15,075	15,770
South Korea	kWh															8,660	8,990	9,088	9,937	10,392
Sweden	kWh															15,240	14,845	14,125	14,933	14,043
USA	kWh															13,543	13,549	12,800	13,270	13,119
United Arab Emirates	kWh															13,311	12,237	10,857	10,891	10,537