Canada vs Japan: Electricity generation from nuclear

Canada
85.32 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Japan
94.09 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Canada rank
7th
Japan rank
6th

Electricity generation from nuclear over time

  • Canada
  • Japan
0100200300196519952025

How they compare

Japan currently reports 94.09 terawatt-hours against 85.32 terawatt-hours in Canada, a difference of 8.77 terawatt-hours.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.1 times Canada's.

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

Canada ranks 7th and Japan ranks 6th of 208 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Electricity generation from nuclear
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
211 places, 8,460 data points, 1920–2025
Last refreshed

Measured in terawatt-hours.