Austria vs Switzerland: Electricity generation from hydropower

Austria
37.93 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Switzerland
33.99 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Austria rank
19th
Switzerland rank
21st

Electricity generation from hydropower over time

  • Austria
  • Switzerland
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How they compare

Austria currently reports 37.93 terawatt-hours against 33.99 terawatt-hours in Switzerland, a difference of 3.94 terawatt-hours.

That makes Austria's figure about 1.1 times Switzerland's.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 61 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Switzerland ahead.

Austria ranks 19th and Switzerland ranks 21st of 214 countries.

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About this data

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

Measured in terawatt-hours.