Electricity generation from nuclear per person in India
India: Electricity generation from nuclear per person was 36.77 kilowatt-hours in 2025. ◆ Volatile
Latest (2025)
36.77 kilowatt-hours
Change on year
down 2.5%
World rank
33rd
of 209 countries
All-time high
37.7 kilowatt-hours
in 2024
All-time low
0 kilowatt-hours
in 1965
Years of data
61
1965–2025
Electricity generation from nuclear per person in India, 1965–2025
Source: Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in kilowatt-hours.
Analysis
The most recent figure for electricity generation from nuclear per person in India is 36.77 kilowatt-hours, measured in 2025.
The figure is down 2.5% on the previous year and up 27.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, electricity generation from nuclear per person in India peaked at 37.7 kilowatt-hours in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0 kilowatt-hours, in 1965.
India ranks 33rd of 209 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Electricity generation from nuclear per person in India, year by year
| Year | kilowatt-hours | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 0 kilowatt-hours | — |
| 1966 | 0 kilowatt-hours | — |
| 1967 | 0 kilowatt-hours | — |
| 1968 | 0 kilowatt-hours | — |
| 1969 | 1.36 kilowatt-hours | — |
| 1970 | 2.4 kilowatt-hours | +76.5% |
| 1971 | 1.74 kilowatt-hours | -27.3% |
| 1972 | 1.62 kilowatt-hours | -7.1% |
| 1973 | 3.35 kilowatt-hours | +106.8% |
| 1974 | 3.01 kilowatt-hours | -10.0% |
| 1975 | 3.51 kilowatt-hours | +16.4% |
| 1976 | 4.24 kilowatt-hours | +21.0% |
| 1977 | 2.89 kilowatt-hours | -31.9% |
| 1978 | 3.45 kilowatt-hours | +19.4% |
| 1979 | 3.5 kilowatt-hours | +1.3% |
| 1980 | 3.56 kilowatt-hours | +1.9% |
| 1981 | 3.5 kilowatt-hours | -1.6% |
| 1982 | 2.99 kilowatt-hours | -14.6% |
| 1983 | 4.17 kilowatt-hours | +39.3% |
| 1984 | 5.35 kilowatt-hours | +28.3% |
| 1985 | 5.83 kilowatt-hours | +9.0% |
| 1986 | 6.35 kilowatt-hours | +8.8% |
| 1987 | 6.58 kilowatt-hours | +3.6% |
| 1988 | 7.34 kilowatt-hours | +11.7% |
| 1989 | 4.75 kilowatt-hours | -35.3% |
| 1990 | 7.39 kilowatt-hours | +55.5% |
| 1991 | 6.12 kilowatt-hours | -17.2% |
| 1992 | 7.09 kilowatt-hours | +15.8% |
| 1993 | 6.75 kilowatt-hours | -4.8% |
| 1994 | 5.25 kilowatt-hours | -22.2% |
| 1995 | 7.93 kilowatt-hours | +50.9% |
| 1996 | 8.58 kilowatt-hours | +8.1% |
| 1997 | 10.08 kilowatt-hours | +17.5% |
| 1998 | 11.16 kilowatt-hours | +10.7% |
| 1999 | 12.26 kilowatt-hours | +9.8% |
| 2000 | 14.91 kilowatt-hours | +21.6% |
| 2001 | 17.52 kilowatt-hours | +17.6% |
| 2002 | 17.63 kilowatt-hours | +0.6% |
| 2003 | 16.24 kilowatt-hours | -7.9% |
| 2004 | 18.71 kilowatt-hours | +15.2% |
| 2005 | 15.36 kilowatt-hours | -18.0% |
| 2006 | 15.03 kilowatt-hours | -2.1% |
| 2007 | 14.97 kilowatt-hours | -0.4% |
| 2008 | 12.61 kilowatt-hours | -15.8% |
| 2009 | 13.72 kilowatt-hours | +8.9% |
| 2010 | 18.56 kilowatt-hours | +35.2% |
| 2011 | 25.55 kilowatt-hours | +37.6% |
| 2012 | 25.92 kilowatt-hours | +1.5% |
| 2013 | 25.71 kilowatt-hours | -0.8% |
| 2014 | 26.43 kilowatt-hours | +2.8% |
| 2015 | 28.85 kilowatt-hours | +9.1% |
| 2016 | 28.2 kilowatt-hours | -2.2% |
| 2017 | 27.51 kilowatt-hours | -2.4% |
| 2018 | 28.41 kilowatt-hours | +3.2% |
| 2019 | 32.51 kilowatt-hours | +14.5% |
| 2020 | 31.8 kilowatt-hours | -2.2% |
| 2021 | 31.06 kilowatt-hours | -2.4% |
| 2022 | 32.4 kilowatt-hours | +4.3% |
| 2023 | 33.52 kilowatt-hours | +3.4% |
| 2024 | 37.7 kilowatt-hours | +12.5% |
| 2025 | 36.77 kilowatt-hours | -2.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Electricity generation from nuclear per person in India 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | +106.8% | 1.62 kilowatt-hours | 3.35 kilowatt-hours |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.2715 kilowatt-hours | 0 kilowatt-hours | 1.36 kilowatt-hours | 5 |
| 1970s | 2.97 kilowatt-hours | 1.62 kilowatt-hours | 4.24 kilowatt-hours | 10 |
| 1980s | 5.04 kilowatt-hours | 2.99 kilowatt-hours | 7.34 kilowatt-hours | 10 |
| 1990s | 8.26 kilowatt-hours | 5.25 kilowatt-hours | 12.26 kilowatt-hours | 10 |
| 2000s | 15.67 kilowatt-hours | 12.61 kilowatt-hours | 18.71 kilowatt-hours | 10 |
| 2010s | 26.76 kilowatt-hours | 18.56 kilowatt-hours | 32.51 kilowatt-hours | 10 |
| 2020s | 33.88 kilowatt-hours | 31.06 kilowatt-hours | 37.7 kilowatt-hours | 6 |
Countries ranked near India
- 30 Iran 79.53 kilowatt-hours compare
- 31 Mexico 77 kilowatt-hours compare
- 32 Brazil 74.57 kilowatt-hours compare
- 34 Afghanistan 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Albania 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Algeria 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 American Samoa 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Angola 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Antigua and Barbuda 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Aruba 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Australia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Austria 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Azerbaijan 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Bahamas 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Bahrain 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Bangladesh 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Barbados 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Belize 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Benin 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Bermuda 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Bhutan 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Bolivia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Botswana 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 British Virgin Islands 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Brunei 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Burkina Faso 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Burundi 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Cameroon 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Cape Verde 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Cayman Islands 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Central African Republic 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Chad 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Chile 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Colombia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Comoros 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Congo 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Cook Islands 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Costa Rica 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Cote d'Ivoire 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Croatia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Cuba 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Cyprus 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Denmark 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Djibouti 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Dominica 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Dominican Republic 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 East Timor 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Ecuador 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Egypt 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Equatorial Guinea 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Eritrea 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Estonia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Eswatini 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Ethiopia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Falkland Islands 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Faroe Islands 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Fiji 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 French Polynesia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Gabon 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Gambia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Georgia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Germany 0 kilowatt-hours compare
- 34 Ghana 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Gibraltar 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Greece 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Greenland 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Grenada 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Guam 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Guatemala 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Guinea 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Guinea-Bissau 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Guyana 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Haiti 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Honduras 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Hong Kong 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Iceland 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Indonesia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Iraq 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Ireland 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Israel 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Italy 0 kilowatt-hours compare
- 34 Jamaica 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Jordan 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Kazakhstan 0 kilowatt-hours compare
- 34 Kenya 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Kiribati 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Kuwait 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Kyrgyzstan 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Laos 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Latvia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Lebanon 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Lesotho 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Liberia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Libya 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Lithuania 0 kilowatt-hours compare
- 34 Luxembourg 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Macao 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Madagascar 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Malawi 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Malaysia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Maldives 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Mali 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Malta 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Mauritania 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Mauritius 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Moldova 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Mongolia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Montenegro 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Montserrat 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Morocco 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Mozambique 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Myanmar 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Namibia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Nauru 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Nepal 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 New Caledonia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 New Zealand 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Nicaragua 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Niger 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Nigeria 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Niue 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 North Korea 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 North Macedonia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Norway 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Oman 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Palestine 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Panama 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Papua New Guinea 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Paraguay 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Peru 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Philippines 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Poland 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Portugal 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Puerto Rico 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Qatar 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Rwanda 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Saint Helena 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Saint Lucia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Samoa 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Saudi Arabia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Senegal 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Serbia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Seychelles 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Sierra Leone 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Singapore 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Solomon Islands 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Somalia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 South Sudan 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Sri Lanka 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Sudan 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Suriname 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Syria 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Tajikistan 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Tanzania 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Thailand 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Togo 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Tonga 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Tunisia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Turkey 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Turkmenistan 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Uganda 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 United States Virgin Islands 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Uruguay 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Uzbekistan 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Vanuatu 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Venezuela 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Vietnam 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Western Sahara 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Yemen 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Zambia 0 kilowatt-hours
- 34 Zimbabwe 0 kilowatt-hours
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Frequently asked questions
- What is electricity generation from nuclear per person in India?
- Electricity generation from nuclear per person in India was 36.77 kilowatt-hours in 2025, according to Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest electricity generation from nuclear per person recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 37.7 kilowatt-hours in 2024.
- What is the lowest electricity generation from nuclear per person recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 kilowatt-hours in 1965.
- How does India rank for electricity generation from nuclear per person?
- India ranks 33rd out of 209 countries with data for 2025.
- Is electricity generation from nuclear per person rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 27.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this India 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 generation from nuclear per person. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Measured in kilowatt-hours per person.