Japan vs Norway: Electricity generation from hydropower

Japan

73.9 terawatt-hours

in 2025

Norway

144.77 terawatt-hours

in 2025

Japan rank

9th

Norway rank

7th

Electricity generation from hydropower over time

Norway currently reports 144.77 terawatt-hours against 73.9 terawatt-hours in Japan, a difference of 70.87 terawatt-hours.

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

The two have swapped places 5 times across 61 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 9th and Norway ranks 7th 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.