China vs India: Electricity generation from renewables

China
3,920 terawatt-hours
in 2025
India
500.98 terawatt-hours
in 2025
China rank
1st
India rank
4th

Electricity generation from renewables over time

  • China
  • India
01.0k2.0k3.0k4.0k197119982025

How they compare

China currently reports 3,920 terawatt-hours against 500.98 terawatt-hours in India, a difference of 3,419 terawatt-hours.

That makes China's figure about 7.8 times India's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1971 it was India ahead.

China ranks 1st and India ranks 4th of 209 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Electricity generation from renewables
Unit
terawatt-hours
Source
Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
216 places, 7,081 data points, 1920–2025
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Measured in terawatt-hours.