Canada vs United States: Electricity generation from hydropower

Canada
344.74 terawatt-hours
in 2025
United States
241.7 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Canada rank
3rd
United States rank
4th

Electricity generation from hydropower over time

  • Canada
  • United States
100200300400196519952025

How they compare

Canada currently reports 344.74 terawatt-hours against 241.7 terawatt-hours in United States, a difference of 103.04 terawatt-hours.

That makes Canada's figure about 1.4 times United States's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 61 shared years of data; in 1965 it was United States ahead.

Canada ranks 3rd and United States ranks 4th 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.