Electricity production by source in Portugal

Portugal: Electricity production by source was 0 terawatt-hours in 2025. ▼ Falling

Latest (2025)
0 terawatt-hours
World rank
85th
of 211 countries
All-time high
15.23 terawatt-hours
in 2005
All-time low
0 terawatt-hours
in 2022
Years of data
36
1990–2025

Electricity production by source in Portugal, 1990–2025

0510151990200720251990: 9.1 terawatt-hours1991: 9.8 terawatt-hours1992: 10.2 terawatt-hours1993: 11.4 terawatt-hours1994: 11.6 terawatt-hours1995: 13.4 terawatt-hours1996: 12.6 terawatt-hours1997: 13 terawatt-hours1998: 12 terawatt-hours1999: 15.1 terawatt-hours2000: 14.6 terawatt-hours2001: 13.6 terawatt-hours2002: 15.2 terawatt-hours2003: 14.5 terawatt-hours2004: 14.9 terawatt-hours2005: 15.2 terawatt-hours2006: 15 terawatt-hours2007: 12.4 terawatt-hours2008: 11.2 terawatt-hours2009: 12.9 terawatt-hours2010: 7.1 terawatt-hours2011: 9.8 terawatt-hours2012: 13.1 terawatt-hours2013: 11.8 terawatt-hours2014: 11.9 terawatt-hours2015: 14.7 terawatt-hours2016: 12.6 terawatt-hours2017: 14.7 terawatt-hours2018: 12 terawatt-hours2019: 5.5 terawatt-hours2020: 2.4 terawatt-hours2021: 0.8 terawatt-hours2022: 0 terawatt-hours2023: 0 terawatt-hours2024: 0 terawatt-hours2025: 0 terawatt-hours

Source: Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in terawatt-hours.

Analysis

The most recent figure for electricity production by source in Portugal is 0 terawatt-hours, measured in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 36 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 100.0% over ten years.

Over the whole period, electricity production by source in Portugal peaked at 15.23 terawatt-hours in 2005 and was at its lowest, 0 terawatt-hours, in 2022.

That places Portugal 85th out of 211 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 36 years of available data.

Electricity production by source in Portugal, year by year

Annual values for Electricity production by source in Portugal, 1990 to 2025.
Year terawatt-hours Change
1990 9.06 terawatt-hours
1991 9.75 terawatt-hours +7.6%
1992 10.17 terawatt-hours +4.3%
1993 11.38 terawatt-hours +11.9%
1994 11.57 terawatt-hours +1.7%
1995 13.41 terawatt-hours +15.9%
1996 12.55 terawatt-hours -6.4%
1997 12.96 terawatt-hours +3.3%
1998 11.98 terawatt-hours -7.6%
1999 15.05 terawatt-hours +25.6%
2000 14.6 terawatt-hours -3.0%
2001 13.61 terawatt-hours -6.8%
2002 15.21 terawatt-hours +11.8%
2003 14.53 terawatt-hours -4.5%
2004 14.86 terawatt-hours +2.3%
2005 15.23 terawatt-hours +2.5%
2006 14.96 terawatt-hours -1.8%
2007 12.4 terawatt-hours -17.1%
2008 11.2 terawatt-hours -9.7%
2009 12.9 terawatt-hours +15.2%
2010 7.1 terawatt-hours -45.0%
2011 9.85 terawatt-hours +38.7%
2012 13.09 terawatt-hours +32.9%
2013 11.84 terawatt-hours -9.5%
2014 11.95 terawatt-hours +0.9%
2015 14.73 terawatt-hours +23.3%
2016 12.63 terawatt-hours -14.3%
2017 14.67 terawatt-hours +16.2%
2018 12.01 terawatt-hours -18.1%
2019 5.53 terawatt-hours -54.0%
2020 2.36 terawatt-hours -57.3%
2021 0.8 terawatt-hours -66.1%
2022 0 terawatt-hours -100.0%
2023 0 terawatt-hours
2024 0 terawatt-hours
2025 0 terawatt-hours

Portugal compared with similar countries

  • Portugal's 0 terawatt-hours is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 0.33 terawatt-hours. (51 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 11.79 terawatt-hours 9.06 terawatt-hours 15.05 terawatt-hours 10
2000s 13.95 terawatt-hours 11.2 terawatt-hours 15.23 terawatt-hours 10
2010s 11.34 terawatt-hours 5.53 terawatt-hours 14.73 terawatt-hours 10
2020s 0.5267 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 2.36 terawatt-hours 6

Countries ranked near Portugal

  1. 82 Belarus 0.02 terawatt-hours compare
  2. 82 Eswatini 0.02 terawatt-hours compare
  3. 84 Peru 0.01 terawatt-hours compare
  4. 85 Albania 0 terawatt-hours
  5. 85 Algeria 0 terawatt-hours
  6. 85 American Samoa 0 terawatt-hours
  7. 85 Angola 0 terawatt-hours
  8. 85 Antigua and Barbuda 0 terawatt-hours
  9. 85 Armenia 0 terawatt-hours
  10. 85 Aruba 0 terawatt-hours
  11. 85 Austria 0 terawatt-hours compare
  12. 85 Azerbaijan 0 terawatt-hours
  13. 85 Bahamas 0 terawatt-hours
  14. 85 Bahrain 0 terawatt-hours
  15. 85 Barbados 0 terawatt-hours
  16. 85 Belgium 0 terawatt-hours compare
  17. 85 Belize 0 terawatt-hours
  18. 85 Benin 0 terawatt-hours
  19. 85 Bermuda 0 terawatt-hours
  20. 85 Bhutan 0 terawatt-hours
  21. 85 Bolivia 0 terawatt-hours
  22. 85 British Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours
  23. 85 Burkina Faso 0 terawatt-hours
  24. 85 Burundi 0 terawatt-hours
  25. 85 Cameroon 0 terawatt-hours
  26. 85 Cape Verde 0 terawatt-hours
  27. 85 Cayman Islands 0 terawatt-hours
  28. 85 Central African Republic 0 terawatt-hours
  29. 85 Chad 0 terawatt-hours
  30. 85 Comoros 0 terawatt-hours
  31. 85 Congo 0 terawatt-hours
  32. 85 Cook Islands 0 terawatt-hours
  33. 85 Costa Rica 0 terawatt-hours
  34. 85 Cote d'Ivoire 0 terawatt-hours
  35. 85 Cuba 0 terawatt-hours
  36. 85 Cyprus 0 terawatt-hours
  37. 85 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 terawatt-hours
  38. 85 Djibouti 0 terawatt-hours
  39. 85 Dominica 0 terawatt-hours
  40. 85 East Timor 0 terawatt-hours
  41. 85 Ecuador 0 terawatt-hours
  42. 85 Egypt 0 terawatt-hours
  43. 85 Equatorial Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
  44. 85 Eritrea 0 terawatt-hours
  45. 85 Estonia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  46. 85 Ethiopia 0 terawatt-hours
  47. 85 Falkland Islands 0 terawatt-hours
  48. 85 Faroe Islands 0 terawatt-hours
  49. 85 Fiji 0 terawatt-hours
  50. 85 French Polynesia 0 terawatt-hours
  51. 85 Gabon 0 terawatt-hours
  52. 85 Gambia 0 terawatt-hours
  53. 85 Georgia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  54. 85 Ghana 0 terawatt-hours
  55. 85 Gibraltar 0 terawatt-hours
  56. 85 Greenland 0 terawatt-hours
  57. 85 Grenada 0 terawatt-hours
  58. 85 Guam 0 terawatt-hours
  59. 85 Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
  60. 85 Guinea-Bissau 0 terawatt-hours
  61. 85 Guyana 0 terawatt-hours
  62. 85 Haiti 0 terawatt-hours
  63. 85 Iceland 0 terawatt-hours
  64. 85 Iraq 0 terawatt-hours
  65. 85 Jamaica 0 terawatt-hours
  66. 85 Jordan 0 terawatt-hours
  67. 85 Kenya 0 terawatt-hours
  68. 85 Kiribati 0 terawatt-hours
  69. 85 Kuwait 0 terawatt-hours
  70. 85 Latvia 0 terawatt-hours
  71. 85 Lebanon 0 terawatt-hours
  72. 85 Lesotho 0 terawatt-hours
  73. 85 Liberia 0 terawatt-hours
  74. 85 Libya 0 terawatt-hours
  75. 85 Lithuania 0 terawatt-hours
  76. 85 Luxembourg 0 terawatt-hours
  77. 85 Macao 0 terawatt-hours
  78. 85 Malawi 0 terawatt-hours
  79. 85 Maldives 0 terawatt-hours
  80. 85 Mali 0 terawatt-hours
  81. 85 Malta 0 terawatt-hours compare
  82. 85 Mauritania 0 terawatt-hours
  83. 85 Moldova 0 terawatt-hours
  84. 85 Montserrat 0 terawatt-hours
  85. 85 Mozambique 0 terawatt-hours
  86. 85 Nauru 0 terawatt-hours
  87. 85 Nepal 0 terawatt-hours
  88. 85 Nicaragua 0 terawatt-hours
  89. 85 Nigeria 0 terawatt-hours
  90. 85 Niue 0 terawatt-hours
  91. 85 Norway 0 terawatt-hours compare
  92. 85 Oman 0 terawatt-hours
  93. 85 Palestine 0 terawatt-hours
  94. 85 Papua New Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
  95. 85 Paraguay 0 terawatt-hours
  96. 85 Qatar 0 terawatt-hours
  97. 85 Saint Helena 0 terawatt-hours
  98. 85 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 terawatt-hours
  99. 85 Saint Lucia 0 terawatt-hours
  100. 85 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 terawatt-hours
  101. 85 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 terawatt-hours
  102. 85 Samoa 0 terawatt-hours
  103. 85 Sao Tome and Principe 0 terawatt-hours
  104. 85 Saudi Arabia 0 terawatt-hours
  105. 85 Seychelles 0 terawatt-hours
  106. 85 Sierra Leone 0 terawatt-hours
  107. 85 Solomon Islands 0 terawatt-hours
  108. 85 Somalia 0 terawatt-hours
  109. 85 South Sudan 0 terawatt-hours
  110. 85 Sudan 0 terawatt-hours
  111. 85 Suriname 0 terawatt-hours
  112. 85 Sweden 0 terawatt-hours compare
  113. 85 Switzerland 0 terawatt-hours
  114. 85 Syria 0 terawatt-hours
  115. 85 Tanzania 0 terawatt-hours compare
  116. 85 Togo 0 terawatt-hours
  117. 85 Tonga 0 terawatt-hours
  118. 85 Trinidad and Tobago 0 terawatt-hours
  119. 85 Tunisia 0 terawatt-hours
  120. 85 Turkmenistan 0 terawatt-hours
  121. 85 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 terawatt-hours
  122. 85 Uganda 0 terawatt-hours
  123. 85 United Arab Emirates 0 terawatt-hours compare
  124. 85 United States Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours
  125. 85 Uruguay 0 terawatt-hours
  126. 85 Vanuatu 0 terawatt-hours
  127. 85 Venezuela 0 terawatt-hours
  128. 85 Western Sahara 0 terawatt-hours
  129. 85 Yemen 0 terawatt-hours

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Frequently asked questions

What is electricity production by source in Portugal?
Electricity production by source in Portugal was 0 terawatt-hours in 2025, according to Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data.
What is the highest electricity production by source recorded in Portugal?
The highest recorded value was 15.23 terawatt-hours in 2005.
What is the lowest electricity production by source recorded in Portugal?
The lowest recorded value was 0 terawatt-hours in 2022.
How does Portugal rank for electricity production by source?
Portugal ranks 85th out of 211 countries with data for 2025.
Is electricity production by source rising or falling in Portugal?
Over the last ten years it is down 100.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Portugal data come from?
The figures come from Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Electricity production by source. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Electricity production by source
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
213 places, 6,154 data points, 1920–2025
Last refreshed

Measured in terawatt-hours.