India vs Japan: Electricity demand

India
2,083 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Japan
1,030 terawatt-hours
in 2025
India rank
3rd
Japan rank
5th

Electricity demand over time

  • India
  • Japan
5001.0k1.5k2.0k200020122025

How they compare

India currently reports 2,083 terawatt-hours against 1,030 terawatt-hours in Japan, a difference of 1,053 terawatt-hours.

That makes India's figure about 2.0 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 26 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Japan ahead.

India ranks 3rd and Japan ranks 5th of 214 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Electricity demand
Unit
terawatt-hours
Source
Ember (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
214 places, 5,717 data points, 1990–2025
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Measured in terawatt-hours.