{"chart":{"title":"Electricity generation","subtitle":"Measured in terawatt-hours.","citation":"Ember (2026) and other sources","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?frequency=annual&metric=generation&source=total","selection":["United States","United Kingdom","China","World","India","Brazil","South Africa"]},"columns":{"Electricity generation - TWh":{"titleShort":"Total electricity generation","titleLong":"Total electricity generation","descriptionShort":"Total electricity generated in each country or region, measured in terawatt-hours.","descriptionProcessing":"- Electricity data from 2000 onwards (and from 1990 onwards for European countries, including Turkey) comes from Ember. Earlier data comes from the Energy Institute.\n- For the World, data before 1965 (going back to 1900) comes from a historical reconstruction by Pinto et al. (2023).\n- For the United Kingdom, data for earlier years (going back to 1920) comes from estimates of generation by fuel published by the UK's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). These cover total, coal, oil, gas and fossil generation up to 1984, and nuclear and hydro generation up to 1964, after which the sources above take over.","shortUnit":"TWh","unit":"terawatt-hours","timespan":"1900-2025","type":"Numeric","owidVariableId":1295558,"shortName":"total_generation__twh","lastUpdated":"2026-06-30","nextUpdate":"2027-06-30","citationShort":"Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data","citationLong":"Ember (2026); Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Pinto et al. (2023); Department for Energy Security and Net Zero of the UK (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Total electricity generation” [dataset]. Ember, “Yearly Electricity Data Europe”; Ember, “Yearly Electricity Data”; Energy Institute, “Statistical Review of World Energy”; Pinto et al., “Global historical electricity”; Department for Energy Security and Net Zero of the UK, “UK electricity capacity and generation by fuel between 1920 and 2020” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1295558.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2026-09-02","activeFilters":{"source":"total","metric":"generation","frequency":"annual"}}