Australia vs Canada: Renewable electricity generation by source

Australia
39.23 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Canada
51.48 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Australia rank
11th
Canada rank
8th

Renewable electricity generation by source over time

  • Australia
  • Canada
0204060198520052025

How they compare

Canada currently reports 51.48 terawatt-hours against 39.23 terawatt-hours in Australia, a difference of 12.25 terawatt-hours.

That makes Canada's figure about 1.3 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Canada ahead.

Australia ranks 11th and Canada ranks 8th of 212 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Renewable electricity generation by source
Unit
terawatt-hours
Source
Ember (2026); Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Pinto et al. (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
214 places, 6,974 data points, 1920–2025
Last refreshed

Measured in terawatt-hours.