Electricity generation from nuclear in Germany
Germany: Electricity generation from nuclear was 0 terawatt-hours in 2025. ◆ Volatile
Electricity generation from nuclear in Germany, 1965–2025
Source: Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in terawatt-hours.
Analysis
In 2025, electricity generation from nuclear in Germany stood at 0 terawatt-hours. That is the lowest value across all 61 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 100.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, electricity generation from nuclear in Germany peaked at 171.3 terawatt-hours in 2001 and was at its lowest, 0 terawatt-hours, in 2024.
Germany ranks 33rd of 208 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.66 terawatt-hours | 0.117 terawatt-hours | 4.94 terawatt-hours | 5 |
| 1970s | 23.97 terawatt-hours | 6.22 terawatt-hours | 52.06 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 1980s | 110.73 terawatt-hours | 55.59 terawatt-hours | 161.67 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 1990s | 157.76 terawatt-hours | 147.23 terawatt-hours | 170.33 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 2000s | 159.22 terawatt-hours | 134.93 terawatt-hours | 171.3 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 2010s | 94.62 terawatt-hours | 75.07 terawatt-hours | 140.56 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 2020s | 29.24 terawatt-hours | 0 terawatt-hours | 69.13 terawatt-hours | 6 |
Countries ranked near Germany
- 30 Netherlands 3.99 terawatt-hours compare
- 31 Taiwan 3.25 terawatt-hours compare
- 32 Armenia 2.62 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Western Sahara 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Falkland Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Saint Helena 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Montserrat 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Niue 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Cook Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Gibraltar 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 American Samoa 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Faroe Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Guam 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 United States Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Greenland 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 British Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Cayman Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 French Polynesia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 New Caledonia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Bermuda 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Nauru 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Puerto Rico 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 North Korea 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Aruba 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 South Sudan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Kiribati 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Antigua and Barbuda 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Dominica 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Grenada 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Solomon Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Turkmenistan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Macao 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Somalia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Bahamas 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Samoa 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Eritrea 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Equatorial Guinea 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Vanuatu 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Papua New Guinea 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 East Timor 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Suriname 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Saint Lucia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Palestine 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Djibouti 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Lebanon 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Seychelles 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Brunei 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Oman 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Libya 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Yemen 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Tonga 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Barbados 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Montenegro 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Afghanistan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Fiji 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Hong Kong 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Uzbekistan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Bhutan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Angola 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Sao Tome and Principe 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Comoros 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Cuba 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Haiti 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Guinea-Bissau 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Maldives 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Trinidad and Tobago 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Guyana 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Syria 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Singapore 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Myanmar 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Iraq 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 North Macedonia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Cape Verde 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Bahrain 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Belize 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Liberia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Nicaragua 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Azerbaijan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Chad 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Tajikistan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Saudi Arabia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Qatar 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Kuwait 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Gabon 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Venezuela 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Nigeria 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Sudan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Jamaica 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Mauritania 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Central African Republic 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Laos 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Guinea 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Botswana 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Congo 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Nepal 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 New Zealand 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Madagascar 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Eswatini 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Ethiopia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Israel 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Australia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Lesotho 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Guatemala 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Iceland 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Gambia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Sierra Leone 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Malaysia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Cyprus 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Bangladesh 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Namibia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Albania 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Togo 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Algeria 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Burundi 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Jordan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Zimbabwe 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Georgia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Mauritius 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Croatia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Mozambique 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Niger 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Benin 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Norway 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Philippines 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Austria 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Zambia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Estonia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Latvia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Lithuania 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Greece 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Tunisia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Denmark 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Italy 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Portugal 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Uganda 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Rwanda 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Tanzania 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Burkina Faso 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Cameroon 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Morocco 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Mali 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Kenya 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Senegal 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Egypt 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Ghana 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Sri Lanka 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Panama 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Serbia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Paraguay 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Malawi 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Bolivia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Kyrgyzstan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Honduras 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Indonesia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Vietnam 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Kazakhstan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Mongolia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Moldova 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Dominican Republic 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Cote d'Ivoire 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Costa Rica 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Ecuador 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Uruguay 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Thailand 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Chile 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Turkey 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Peru 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Poland 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Colombia 0 terawatt-hours compare
More energy & mining data for Germany
- Fuel imports 8.0% (2024)
- Ores and metals imports 4.0% (2024)
- Ores and metals exports 2.7% (2024)
- Gas production 37.37 terawatt-hours (2025)
- Fossil fuel production per person, by fuel 444.51 kilowatt-hours per person (2025)
- Fossil fuel production by fuel 37.37 terawatt-hours (2025)
- Gas production per person 444.51 kilowatt-hours per person (2025)
- Fuel exports 2.1% (2024)
- Electric power transmission and distribution losses 5.1% (2024)
- Share of dietary energy supply from carbohydrates vs. GDP per capita 46.3% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is electricity generation from nuclear in Germany?
- Electricity generation from nuclear in Germany 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 generation from nuclear recorded in Germany?
- The highest recorded value was 171.3 terawatt-hours in 2001.
- What is the lowest electricity generation from nuclear recorded in Germany?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 terawatt-hours in 2024.
- How does Germany rank for electricity generation from nuclear?
- Germany ranks 33rd out of 208 countries with data for 2025.
- Is electricity generation from nuclear rising or falling in Germany?
- Over the last ten years it is down 100.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Germany 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. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Measured in terawatt-hours.