Electricity generation from nuclear in Germany
Germany: Electricity generation from nuclear was 0 terawatt-hours in 2025. ◆ Volatile
Latest (2025)
0 terawatt-hours
World rank
34th
of 209 countries
All-time high
171.3 terawatt-hours
in 2001
All-time low
0 terawatt-hours
in 2024
Years of data
61
1965–2025
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 34th 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 in Germany, year by year
| Year | terawatt-hours | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 0.117 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1966 | 0.265 terawatt-hours | +126.5% |
| 1967 | 1.23 terawatt-hours | +362.3% |
| 1968 | 1.77 terawatt-hours | +44.2% |
| 1969 | 4.94 terawatt-hours | +179.6% |
| 1970 | 6.49 terawatt-hours | +31.5% |
| 1971 | 6.22 terawatt-hours | -4.3% |
| 1972 | 9.52 terawatt-hours | +53.2% |
| 1973 | 12.11 terawatt-hours | +27.1% |
| 1974 | 14.46 terawatt-hours | +19.4% |
| 1975 | 24.14 terawatt-hours | +66.9% |
| 1976 | 29.53 terawatt-hours | +22.4% |
| 1977 | 41.26 terawatt-hours | +39.7% |
| 1978 | 43.87 terawatt-hours | +6.3% |
| 1979 | 52.06 terawatt-hours | +18.7% |
| 1980 | 55.59 terawatt-hours | +6.8% |
| 1981 | 65.53 terawatt-hours | +17.9% |
| 1982 | 74.43 terawatt-hours | +13.6% |
| 1983 | 78.06 terawatt-hours | +4.9% |
| 1984 | 104.32 terawatt-hours | +33.6% |
| 1985 | 138.64 terawatt-hours | +32.9% |
| 1986 | 130.49 terawatt-hours | -5.9% |
| 1987 | 141.72 terawatt-hours | +8.6% |
| 1988 | 156.82 terawatt-hours | +10.7% |
| 1989 | 161.67 terawatt-hours | +3.1% |
| 1990 | 152.47 terawatt-hours | -5.7% |
| 1991 | 147.23 terawatt-hours | -3.4% |
| 1992 | 158.8 terawatt-hours | +7.9% |
| 1993 | 153.28 terawatt-hours | -3.5% |
| 1994 | 150.7 terawatt-hours | -1.7% |
| 1995 | 153.09 terawatt-hours | +1.6% |
| 1996 | 160.02 terawatt-hours | +4.5% |
| 1997 | 170.33 terawatt-hours | +6.4% |
| 1998 | 161.64 terawatt-hours | -5.1% |
| 1999 | 170 terawatt-hours | +5.2% |
| 2000 | 169.61 terawatt-hours | -0.2% |
| 2001 | 171.3 terawatt-hours | +1.0% |
| 2002 | 164.84 terawatt-hours | -3.8% |
| 2003 | 165.06 terawatt-hours | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 167.07 terawatt-hours | +1.2% |
| 2005 | 163.05 terawatt-hours | -2.4% |
| 2006 | 167.27 terawatt-hours | +2.6% |
| 2007 | 140.53 terawatt-hours | -16.0% |
| 2008 | 148.49 terawatt-hours | +5.7% |
| 2009 | 134.93 terawatt-hours | -9.1% |
| 2010 | 140.56 terawatt-hours | +4.2% |
| 2011 | 107.97 terawatt-hours | -23.2% |
| 2012 | 99.46 terawatt-hours | -7.9% |
| 2013 | 97.29 terawatt-hours | -2.2% |
| 2014 | 97.13 terawatt-hours | -0.2% |
| 2015 | 91.79 terawatt-hours | -5.5% |
| 2016 | 84.63 terawatt-hours | -7.8% |
| 2017 | 76.32 terawatt-hours | -9.8% |
| 2018 | 76 terawatt-hours | -0.4% |
| 2019 | 75.07 terawatt-hours | -1.2% |
| 2020 | 64.38 terawatt-hours | -14.2% |
| 2021 | 69.13 terawatt-hours | +7.4% |
| 2022 | 34.71 terawatt-hours | -49.8% |
| 2023 | 7.22 terawatt-hours | -79.2% |
| 2024 | 0 terawatt-hours | -100.0% |
| 2025 | 0 terawatt-hours | — |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Electricity generation from nuclear in Germany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | +362.3% | 0.265 terawatt-hours | 1.23 terawatt-hours |
| 1969 | +179.6% | 1.77 terawatt-hours | 4.94 terawatt-hours |
| 1966 | +126.5% | 0.117 terawatt-hours | 0.265 terawatt-hours |
| 2024 | -100.0% | 7.22 terawatt-hours | 0 terawatt-hours |
| 2023 | -79.2% | 34.71 terawatt-hours | 7.22 terawatt-hours |
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
- 31 Netherlands 3.99 terawatt-hours compare
- 32 Taiwan 3.25 terawatt-hours compare
- 33 Armenia 2.62 terawatt-hours compare
- 34 Afghanistan 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Albania 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Algeria 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 American Samoa 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Angola 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Antigua and Barbuda 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Aruba 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Australia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Austria 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Azerbaijan 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Bahamas 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Bahrain 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Bangladesh 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Barbados 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Belize 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Benin 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Bermuda 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Bhutan 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Bolivia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Botswana 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 British Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Brunei 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Burkina Faso 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Burundi 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Cameroon 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Cape Verde 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Cayman Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Central African Republic 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Chad 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Chile 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Colombia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Comoros 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Congo 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Cook Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Costa Rica 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Cote d'Ivoire 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Croatia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Cuba 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Cyprus 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Denmark 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Djibouti 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Dominica 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Dominican Republic 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 East Timor 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Ecuador 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Egypt 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Equatorial Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Eritrea 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Estonia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Eswatini 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Ethiopia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Falkland Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Faroe Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Fiji 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 French Polynesia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Gabon 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Gambia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Georgia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Ghana 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Gibraltar 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Greece 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Greenland 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Grenada 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Guam 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Guatemala 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Guinea-Bissau 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Guyana 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Haiti 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Honduras 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Hong Kong 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Iceland 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Indonesia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Iraq 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Ireland 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Israel 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Italy 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 34 Jamaica 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Jordan 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Kazakhstan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 34 Kenya 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Kiribati 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Kuwait 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Kyrgyzstan 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Laos 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Latvia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Lebanon 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Lesotho 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Liberia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Libya 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Lithuania 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 34 Luxembourg 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Macao 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Madagascar 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Malawi 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Malaysia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Maldives 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Mali 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Malta 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Mauritania 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Mauritius 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Moldova 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Mongolia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Montenegro 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Montserrat 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Morocco 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Mozambique 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Myanmar 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Namibia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Nauru 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Nepal 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 New Caledonia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 New Zealand 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Nicaragua 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Niger 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Nigeria 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Niue 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 North Korea 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 North Macedonia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Norway 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Oman 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Palestine 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Panama 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Papua New Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Paraguay 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Peru 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Philippines 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Poland 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Portugal 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Puerto Rico 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Qatar 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Rwanda 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Saint Helena 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Saint Lucia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Samoa 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Sao Tome and Principe 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Saudi Arabia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Senegal 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Serbia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Seychelles 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Sierra Leone 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Singapore 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Solomon Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Somalia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 South Sudan 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Sri Lanka 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Sudan 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Suriname 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Syria 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Tajikistan 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Tanzania 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Thailand 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Togo 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Tonga 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Trinidad and Tobago 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Tunisia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Turkey 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Turkmenistan 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Uganda 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 United States Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Uruguay 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Uzbekistan 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Vanuatu 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Venezuela 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Vietnam 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Western Sahara 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Yemen 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Zambia 0 terawatt-hours
- 34 Zimbabwe 0 terawatt-hours
More energy & mining data for Germany
- Fossil fuel consumption by fuel, per unit of GDP 0 terawatt-hours per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Primary energy use, annual growth rate -0.1985 % change on previous year (2025)
- Coal consumption, per capita 0 terawatt-hours per person (2025)
- 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)
- Fuel imports 8.0% (2024)
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 34th out of 209 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.