Annual change in primary energy from nuclear in Brazil
Brazil: Annual change in primary energy from nuclear was 0.0925 terawatt-hours in 2025. ◆ Volatile
Latest (2025)
0.0925 terawatt-hours
Change on year
down 97.6%
World rank
19th
of 219 countries
All-time high
24.95 terawatt-hours
in 2001
All-time low
-9.81 terawatt-hours
in 1986
Years of data
60
1966–2025
Annual change in primary energy from nuclear in Brazil, 1966–2025
Source: Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in terawatt-hours.
Analysis
The most recent figure for annual change in primary energy from nuclear in Brazil is 0.0925 terawatt-hours, measured in 2025.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 97.6% on the previous year and up 104.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, annual change in primary energy from nuclear in Brazil peaked at 24.95 terawatt-hours in 2001 and was at its lowest, -9.81 terawatt-hours, in 1986.
That places Brazil 19th out of 219 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top 10%.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Annual change in primary energy from nuclear in Brazil, year by year
| Year | terawatt-hours | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1967 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1968 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1969 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1970 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1971 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1972 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1973 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1974 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1975 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1976 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1977 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1978 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1979 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1980 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1981 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1982 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1983 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1984 | 4.98 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1985 | 5.27 terawatt-hours | +5.8% |
| 1986 | -9.81 terawatt-hours | -286.2% |
| 1987 | 2.51 terawatt-hours | -125.6% |
| 1988 | -1.11 terawatt-hours | -144.0% |
| 1989 | 3.7 terawatt-hours | -434.8% |
| 1990 | 1.23 terawatt-hours | -66.7% |
| 1991 | -2.41 terawatt-hours | -295.3% |
| 1992 | 0.9606 terawatt-hours | -139.9% |
| 1993 | -3.99 terawatt-hours | -515.5% |
| 1994 | -1.17 terawatt-hours | -70.6% |
| 1995 | 7.47 terawatt-hours | -736.7% |
| 1996 | -0.2788 terawatt-hours | -103.7% |
| 1997 | 2.25 terawatt-hours | -906.5% |
| 1998 | 0.2909 terawatt-hours | -87.1% |
| 1999 | 2.16 terawatt-hours | +641.7% |
| 2000 | 6.27 terawatt-hours | +190.6% |
| 2001 | 24.95 terawatt-hours | +297.9% |
| 2002 | -1.34 terawatt-hours | -105.4% |
| 2003 | -1.45 terawatt-hours | +7.9% |
| 2004 | -5.29 terawatt-hours | +265.5% |
| 2005 | -5.32 terawatt-hours | +0.5% |
| 2006 | 11.82 terawatt-hours | -322.0% |
| 2007 | -4.26 terawatt-hours | -136.0% |
| 2008 | 4.91 terawatt-hours | -215.3% |
| 2009 | -3.07 terawatt-hours | -162.5% |
| 2010 | 4.75 terawatt-hours | -254.8% |
| 2011 | 3.44 terawatt-hours | -27.5% |
| 2012 | 1.15 terawatt-hours | -66.6% |
| 2013 | -1.78 terawatt-hours | -255.3% |
| 2014 | -0.2158 terawatt-hours | -87.9% |
| 2015 | -1.95 terawatt-hours | +804.6% |
| 2016 | 3.42 terawatt-hours | -275.4% |
| 2017 | -0.3792 terawatt-hours | -111.1% |
| 2018 | -0.1979 terawatt-hours | -47.8% |
| 2019 | 1.38 terawatt-hours | -796.6% |
| 2020 | -6.29 terawatt-hours | -556.4% |
| 2021 | 1.98 terawatt-hours | -131.4% |
| 2022 | -0.4411 terawatt-hours | -122.3% |
| 2023 | -0.1675 terawatt-hours | -62.0% |
| 2024 | 3.83 terawatt-hours | -2384.5% |
| 2025 | 0.0925 terawatt-hours | -97.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Annual change in primary energy from nuclear in Brazil changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | +2384.5% | -0.1675 terawatt-hours | 3.83 terawatt-hours |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0 terawatt-hours | 0 terawatt-hours | 0 terawatt-hours | 4 |
| 1970s | 0 terawatt-hours | 0 terawatt-hours | 0 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.5545 terawatt-hours | -9.81 terawatt-hours | 5.27 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.6506 terawatt-hours | -3.99 terawatt-hours | 7.47 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 2000s | 2.72 terawatt-hours | -5.32 terawatt-hours | 24.95 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.9612 terawatt-hours | -1.95 terawatt-hours | 4.75 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 2020s | -0.1674 terawatt-hours | -6.29 terawatt-hours | 3.83 terawatt-hours | 6 |
Countries ranked near Brazil
- 16 Romania 0.303 terawatt-hours compare
- 17 Hungary 0.2452 terawatt-hours compare
- 18 United Arab Emirates 0.1599 terawatt-hours compare
- 20 Afghanistan 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Albania 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Algeria 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 American Samoa 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Angola 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Antarctica 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Antigua and Barbuda 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Aruba 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Australia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Austria 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Azerbaijan 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Bahamas 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Bahrain 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Bangladesh 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Barbados 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Belize 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Benin 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Bermuda 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Bhutan 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Bolivia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Botswana 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 British Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Brunei 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Burkina Faso 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Burundi 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Cambodia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Cameroon 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Cape Verde 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Cayman Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Central African Republic 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Chad 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Chile 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Colombia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Comoros 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Congo 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Cook Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Costa Rica 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Cote d'Ivoire 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Croatia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Cuba 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Curacao 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Cyprus 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Denmark 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Djibouti 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Dominica 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Dominican Republic 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 East Timor 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Ecuador 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Egypt 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 El Salvador 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Equatorial Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Eritrea 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Estonia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Eswatini 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Ethiopia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Falkland Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Faroe Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Fiji 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 French Guiana 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 French Polynesia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Gabon 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Gambia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Georgia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Germany 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 20 Ghana 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Greece 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Greenland 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Grenada 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Guadeloupe 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Guam 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Guatemala 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Guinea-Bissau 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Guyana 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Haiti 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Honduras 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Hong Kong 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Iceland 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Indonesia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Iraq 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Ireland 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Israel 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Italy 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 20 Jamaica 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Jordan 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Kazakhstan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 20 Kenya 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Kiribati 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Kuwait 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Kyrgyzstan 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Laos 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Latvia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Lebanon 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Lesotho 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Liberia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Libya 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Lithuania 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 20 Luxembourg 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Macao 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Madagascar 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Malawi 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Malaysia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Maldives 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Mali 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Malta 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Martinique 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Mauritania 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Mauritius 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Micronesia (country) 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Moldova 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Mongolia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Montenegro 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Montserrat 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Morocco 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Mozambique 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Myanmar 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Namibia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Nauru 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Nepal 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Netherlands Antilles 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 New Caledonia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 New Zealand 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Nicaragua 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Niger 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Nigeria 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Niue 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 North Korea 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 North Macedonia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Northern Mariana Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Norway 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Oman 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Palestine 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Panama 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Papua New Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Paraguay 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Peru 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Philippines 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Poland 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Portugal 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Puerto Rico 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Qatar 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Reunion 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Rwanda 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Saint Helena 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Saint Lucia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Samoa 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Sao Tome and Principe 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Saudi Arabia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Senegal 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Serbia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Seychelles 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Sierra Leone 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Singapore 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Solomon Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Somalia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 South Sudan 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Sri Lanka 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Sudan 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Suriname 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Syria 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Tajikistan 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Tanzania 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Thailand 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Togo 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Tonga 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Trinidad and Tobago 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Tunisia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Turkey 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Turkmenistan 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Tuvalu 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Uganda 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 United States Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Uruguay 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Uzbekistan 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Vanuatu 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Venezuela 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Vietnam 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Western Sahara 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Yemen 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Zambia 0 terawatt-hours
- 20 Zimbabwe 0 terawatt-hours
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- Coal consumption, per unit of GDP 0 terawatt-hours per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Primary energy use, per unit of GDP 0 terawatt-hours per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Primary energy use, per capita 0 terawatt-hours per person (2025)
- Coal production, per capita 0 terawatt-hours per person (2025)
- Coal production, per unit of GDP 0 terawatt-hours per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Fossil fuel consumption by fuel, per capita 0 terawatt-hours per person (2025)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is annual change in primary energy from nuclear in Brazil?
- Annual change in primary energy from nuclear in Brazil was 0.0925 terawatt-hours in 2025, according to Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest annual change in primary energy from nuclear recorded in Brazil?
- The highest recorded value was 24.95 terawatt-hours in 2001.
- What is the lowest annual change in primary energy from nuclear recorded in Brazil?
- The lowest recorded value was -9.81 terawatt-hours in 1986.
- How does Brazil rank for annual change in primary energy from nuclear?
- Brazil ranks 19th out of 219 countries with data for 2025.
- Is annual change in primary energy from nuclear rising or falling in Brazil?
- Over the last ten years it is up 104.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Brazil data come from?
- The figures come from Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Annual change in primary energy from nuclear. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Change in total energy supply relative to the previous year, measured in terawatt-hours.