Electricity Consumption and GDP
Listed countries are top 20 populous countries and/or top 20 GDP (PPP) countries and Saudi Arabia as of CIA World Factbook 2009.
30 countries (exclude EU/IEA) in this table represent 77% of world population, 84% of world GDP, 83% of world electricity consumption.
Productivity per Electricity consumption (concept similar to Energy intensity) can be measured by dividing GDP amount by the electricity consumed. World average was $3.5 production/kWh.
Electricity consumption include Final consumption, in process consumption, and losses.
| Country | Population million |
rank* | GDP (PPP) billion USD |
rank* | GDP (PPP) per capita |
rank* | Electricity consumption (GWh/yr) |
rank** | daily kWh per capita |
rank** | GDP (PPP) /kWh* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World | 6,784 | — | $70,048 | — | $10,325 | — | 20,279,640 | — | 8.18 | — | $3.5 |
| China | 1,339 | 01 | $7,992 | 02 | $5,969 | 133 | 3,444,108 | 02 | 7.04 | 17 | $2.3 |
| India | 1,166 | 02 | $3,304 | 04 | $2,834 | 166 | 860,723 | 05 | 2.02 | 23 | $3.8 |
| USA | 307 | 03 | $14,440 | 01 | $47,036 | 11 | 4,401,698 | 01 | 39.25 | 02 | $3.3 |
| EU* | 541 | — | $16,221 | — | $29,983 | — | 3,635,604 | — | 18.40 | — | $4.5 |
| Indonesia | 240 | 04 | $917 | 15 | $3,821 | 158 | 149,437 | 20 | 1.70 | 24 | $6.1 |
| Brazil | 199 | 05 | $1,998 | 09 | $10,040 | 102 | 505,083 | 09 | 6.95 | 18 | $4.0 |
| Pakistan | 176 | 06 | $431 | 27 | $2,449 | 172 | 91,626 | 24 | 1.43 | 26 | $4.7 |
| Bangladesh | 156 | 07 | $226 | 49 | $1,449 | 196 | 35,893 | 27 | 0.63 | 27 | $6.3 |
| Nigeria | 149 | 08 | $336 | 35 | $2,255 | 176 | 21,110 | 28 | 0.39 | 28 | $15.9 |
| Russia | 140 | 09 | $2,271 | 06 | $16,221 | 72 | 1,022,726 | 04 | 20.00 | 10 | $2.2 |
| Japan | 127 | 10 | $4,340 | 03 | $34,173 | 36 | 1,083,142 | 03 | 23.35 | 06 | $4.0 |
| Mexico | 111 | 11 | $1,567 | 11 | $14,117 | 77 | 257,812 | 14 | 6.36 | 19 | $6.1 |
| Philippines | 98 | 12 | $318 | 37 | $3,425 | 162 | 60,819 | 26 | 1.70 | 25 | $5.2 |
| Vietnam | 87 | 13 | $242 | 45 | $2,782 | 167 | 76,269 | 25 | 2.40 | 22 | $3.2 |
| Ethiopia | 85 | 14 | $70 | 78 | $824 | 216 | 3,777 | 30 | 0.12 | 30 | $18.5 |
| Egypt | 83 | 15 | $445 | 26 | $5,361 | 135 | 130,144 | 22 | 4.29 | 21 | $3.4 |
| Germany | 82 | 16 | $2,925 | 05 | $35,671 | 33 | 617,132 | 07 | 20.61 | 08 | $4.7 |
| Turkey | 77 | 17 | $904 | 16 | $11,740 | 92 | 198,085 | 19 | 7.04 | 16 | $4.6 |
| DR Congo | 69 | 18 | $21 | 120 | $304 | 226 | 6,939 | 29 | 0.28 | 29 | $3.0 |
| Iran | 66 | 19 | $844 | 17 | $12,788 | 86 | 211,972 | 17 | 8.79 | 15 | $4.0 |
| Thailand | 66 | 20 | $549 | 24 | $8,318 | 115 | 149,034 | 21 | 6.18 | 20 | $3.7 |
| France | 64 | 21 | $2,133 | 08 | $33,328 | 38 | 526,862 | 08 | 22.54 | 07 | $4.0 |
| UK | 61 | 22 | $2,236 | 07 | $36,656 | 30 | 400,390 | 11 | 17.97 | 13 | $5.6 |
| Italy | 58 | 23 | $1,827 | 10 | $31,500 | 41 | 359,161 | 12 | 16.95 | 14 | $5.1 |
| Korea | 49 | 25 | $1,338 | 13 | $27,306 | 49 | 443,888 | 10 | 24.80 | 05 | $3.0 |
| Spain | 41 | 32 | $1,402 | 12 | $34,195 | 35 | 303,179 | 13 | 20.25 | 09 | $4.6 |
| Canada | 33 | 37 | $1,303 | 14 | $39,485 | 22 | 620,684 | 06 | 51.50 | 01 | $2.1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 29 | 41 | $578 | 22 | $19,931 | 59 | 204,200 | 18 | 19.28 | 12 | $2.8 |
| Taiwan | 23 | 49 | $714 | 19 | $31,043 | 42 | 238,458 | 16 | 28.39 | 04 | $3.0 |
| Australia | 21 | 54 | $803 | 18 | $38,238 | 25 | 257,247 | 15 | 33.54 | 03 | $3.1 |
| Netherlands | 17 | 59 | $674 | 20 | $39,647 | 20 | 123,496 | 23 | 19.89 | 11 | $5.5 |
Population and GDP data are from CIA World Factbook 2009
Electricity data are from IEA/OECD 2008 (retrieved on Apr-2011)
rank* of Population and GDP are World ranking
rank** of Electricity consumption are ranking within this list
GDP PP/kWh Amount of GDP (PPP) (USD) produced per every 1kWh.
EU* are EU states which are member of IEA.
include; Austria, Belgium, Czech, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK
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