Australia vs Nigeria: Electricity generation from hydropower

Australia

12.22 terawatt-hours

in 2025

Nigeria

12.82 terawatt-hours

in 2025

Australia rank

45th

Nigeria rank

42nd

Electricity generation from hydropower over time

Nigeria currently reports 12.82 terawatt-hours against 12.22 terawatt-hours in Australia, a difference of 0.6 terawatt-hours.

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

Australia ranks 45th and Nigeria ranks 42nd of 214 countries.

Indicator: Electricity generation from hydropower
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: 217 places, 7,927 data points, 1920–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured in terawatt-hours.