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Primary energy from nuclear per person in Brazil

Brazil: Primary energy from nuclear per person was 224.94 kilowatt-hours per person in 2025. ◆ Volatile

Latest (2025)
224.94 kilowatt-hours per person
Change on year
down 0.2%
World rank
30th
of 218 countries
All-time high
246.86 kilowatt-hours per person
in 2012
All-time low
0 kilowatt-hours per person
in 1965
Years of data
61
1965–2025

Primary energy from nuclear per person in Brazil, 1965–2025

050100150200250196519952025

Source: Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in kilowatt-hours per person.

Analysis

The most recent figure for primary energy from nuclear per person in Brazil is 224.94 kilowatt-hours per person, measured in 2025.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.6% over ten years.

Over the whole period, primary energy from nuclear per person in Brazil peaked at 246.86 kilowatt-hours per person in 2012 and was at its lowest, 0 kilowatt-hours per person, in 1965.

That places Brazil 30th out of 218 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.

The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.

Primary energy from nuclear per person in Brazil, year by year

Year kilowatt-hours per person Change
1965 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1966 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1967 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1968 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1969 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1970 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1971 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1972 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1973 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1974 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1975 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1976 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1977 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1978 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1979 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1980 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1981 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1982 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1983 0 kilowatt-hours per person —
1984 37.53 kilowatt-hours per person —
1985 75.6 kilowatt-hours per person +101.4%
1986 3.15 kilowatt-hours per person -95.8%
1987 20.9 kilowatt-hours per person +562.4%
1988 12.81 kilowatt-hours per person -38.7%
1989 37.85 kilowatt-hours per person +195.5%
1990 45.45 kilowatt-hours per person +20.1%
1991 28.8 kilowatt-hours per person -36.6%
1992 34.55 kilowatt-hours per person +20.0%
1993 8.54 kilowatt-hours per person -75.3%
1994 1.05 kilowatt-hours per person -87.7%
1995 47.2 kilowatt-hours per person +4410.1%
1996 44.79 kilowatt-hours per person -5.1%
1997 57.62 kilowatt-hours per person +28.6%
1998 58.49 kilowatt-hours per person +1.5%
1999 70.21 kilowatt-hours per person +20.0%
2000 105.28 kilowatt-hours per person +49.9%
2001 245.43 kilowatt-hours per person +133.1%
2002 234.88 kilowatt-hours per person -4.3%
2003 224.11 kilowatt-hours per person -4.6%
2004 192.61 kilowatt-hours per person -14.1%
2005 161.7 kilowatt-hours per person -16.0%
2006 223.3 kilowatt-hours per person +38.1%
2007 198.48 kilowatt-hours per person -11.1%
2008 222.35 kilowatt-hours per person +12.0%
2009 204.41 kilowatt-hours per person -8.1%
2010 227.2 kilowatt-hours per person +11.1%
2011 242.99 kilowatt-hours per person +6.9%
2012 246.86 kilowatt-hours per person +1.6%
2013 235.88 kilowatt-hours per person -4.4%
2014 232.91 kilowatt-hours per person -1.3%
2015 221.39 kilowatt-hours per person -4.9%
2016 236.56 kilowatt-hours per person +6.9%
2017 232.99 kilowatt-hours per person -1.5%
2018 230.45 kilowatt-hours per person -1.1%
2019 235.59 kilowatt-hours per person +2.2%
2020 204.08 kilowatt-hours per person -13.4%
2021 212.64 kilowatt-hours per person +4.2%
2022 209.78 kilowatt-hours per person -1.3%
2023 208.16 kilowatt-hours per person -0.8%
2024 225.37 kilowatt-hours per person +8.3%
2025 224.94 kilowatt-hours per person -0.2%

Biggest year-on-year movements

Years where Primary energy from nuclear per person 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.

YearChange FromTo
1995 +4410.1% 1.05 kilowatt-hours per person 47.2 kilowatt-hours per person
1987 +562.4% 3.15 kilowatt-hours per person 20.9 kilowatt-hours per person
1989 +195.5% 12.81 kilowatt-hours per person 37.85 kilowatt-hours per person
2001 +133.1% 105.28 kilowatt-hours per person 245.43 kilowatt-hours per person
1985 +101.4% 37.53 kilowatt-hours per person 75.6 kilowatt-hours per person

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1960s 0 kilowatt-hours per person 0 kilowatt-hours per person 0 kilowatt-hours per person 5
1970s 0 kilowatt-hours per person 0 kilowatt-hours per person 0 kilowatt-hours per person 10
1980s 18.78 kilowatt-hours per person 0 kilowatt-hours per person 75.6 kilowatt-hours per person 10
1990s 39.67 kilowatt-hours per person 1.05 kilowatt-hours per person 70.21 kilowatt-hours per person 10
2000s 201.26 kilowatt-hours per person 105.28 kilowatt-hours per person 245.43 kilowatt-hours per person 10
2010s 234.28 kilowatt-hours per person 221.39 kilowatt-hours per person 246.86 kilowatt-hours per person 10
2020s 214.16 kilowatt-hours per person 204.08 kilowatt-hours per person 225.37 kilowatt-hours per person 6

Countries ranked near Brazil

  1. 27 Taiwan 424.46 kilowatt-hours per person compare
  2. 28 Pakistan 280.67 kilowatt-hours per person compare
  3. 29 Mexico 232.07 kilowatt-hours per person compare
  4. 31 Iran 176.68 kilowatt-hours per person compare
  5. 32 India 111.4 kilowatt-hours per person compare
  6. 33 Afghanistan 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  7. 33 Albania 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  8. 33 Algeria 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  9. 33 American Samoa 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  10. 33 Angola 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  11. 33 Antigua and Barbuda 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  12. 33 Aruba 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  13. 33 Australia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  14. 33 Austria 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  15. 33 Azerbaijan 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  16. 33 Bahamas 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  17. 33 Bahrain 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  18. 33 Bangladesh 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  19. 33 Barbados 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  20. 33 Belize 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  21. 33 Benin 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  22. 33 Bermuda 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  23. 33 Bhutan 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  24. 33 Bolivia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  25. 33 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  26. 33 Botswana 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  27. 33 British Virgin Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  28. 33 Brunei 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  29. 33 Burkina Faso 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  30. 33 Burundi 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  31. 33 Cambodia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  32. 33 Cameroon 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  33. 33 Cape Verde 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  34. 33 Cayman Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  35. 33 Central African Republic 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  36. 33 Chad 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  37. 33 Chile 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  38. 33 Colombia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  39. 33 Comoros 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  40. 33 Congo 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  41. 33 Cook Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  42. 33 Costa Rica 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  43. 33 Cote d'Ivoire 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  44. 33 Croatia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  45. 33 Cuba 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  46. 33 Curacao 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  47. 33 Cyprus 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  48. 33 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  49. 33 Denmark 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  50. 33 Djibouti 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  51. 33 Dominica 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  52. 33 Dominican Republic 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  53. 33 East Timor 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  54. 33 Ecuador 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  55. 33 Egypt 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  56. 33 El Salvador 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  57. 33 Equatorial Guinea 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  58. 33 Eritrea 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  59. 33 Estonia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  60. 33 Eswatini 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  61. 33 Ethiopia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  62. 33 Falkland Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  63. 33 Faroe Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  64. 33 Fiji 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  65. 33 French Guiana 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  66. 33 French Polynesia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  67. 33 Gabon 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  68. 33 Gambia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  69. 33 Georgia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  70. 33 Germany 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
  71. 33 Ghana 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  72. 33 Greece 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  73. 33 Greenland 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  74. 33 Grenada 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  75. 33 Guadeloupe 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  76. 33 Guam 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  77. 33 Guatemala 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  78. 33 Guinea 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  79. 33 Guinea-Bissau 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  80. 33 Guyana 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  81. 33 Haiti 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  82. 33 Honduras 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  83. 33 Hong Kong 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  84. 33 Iceland 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  85. 33 Indonesia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  86. 33 Iraq 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  87. 33 Ireland 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  88. 33 Israel 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  89. 33 Italy 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
  90. 33 Jamaica 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  91. 33 Jordan 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  92. 33 Kazakhstan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
  93. 33 Kenya 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  94. 33 Kiribati 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  95. 33 Kuwait 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  96. 33 Kyrgyzstan 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  97. 33 Laos 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  98. 33 Latvia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  99. 33 Lebanon 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  100. 33 Lesotho 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  101. 33 Liberia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  102. 33 Libya 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  103. 33 Lithuania 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
  104. 33 Luxembourg 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  105. 33 Macao 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  106. 33 Madagascar 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  107. 33 Malawi 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  108. 33 Malaysia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  109. 33 Maldives 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  110. 33 Mali 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  111. 33 Malta 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  112. 33 Martinique 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  113. 33 Mauritania 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  114. 33 Mauritius 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  115. 33 Micronesia (country) 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  116. 33 Moldova 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  117. 33 Mongolia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  118. 33 Montenegro 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  119. 33 Montserrat 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  120. 33 Morocco 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  121. 33 Mozambique 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  122. 33 Myanmar 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  123. 33 Namibia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  124. 33 Nauru 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  125. 33 Nepal 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  126. 33 Netherlands Antilles 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  127. 33 New Caledonia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  128. 33 New Zealand 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  129. 33 Nicaragua 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  130. 33 Niger 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  131. 33 Nigeria 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  132. 33 Niue 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  133. 33 North Korea 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  134. 33 North Macedonia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  135. 33 Northern Mariana Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  136. 33 Norway 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  137. 33 Oman 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  138. 33 Palestine 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  139. 33 Panama 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  140. 33 Papua New Guinea 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  141. 33 Paraguay 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  142. 33 Peru 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  143. 33 Philippines 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  144. 33 Poland 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  145. 33 Portugal 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  146. 33 Puerto Rico 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  147. 33 Qatar 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  148. 33 Reunion 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  149. 33 Rwanda 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  150. 33 Saint Helena 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  151. 33 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  152. 33 Saint Lucia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  153. 33 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  154. 33 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  155. 33 Samoa 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  156. 33 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  157. 33 Saudi Arabia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  158. 33 Senegal 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  159. 33 Serbia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  160. 33 Seychelles 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  161. 33 Sierra Leone 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  162. 33 Singapore 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  163. 33 Solomon Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  164. 33 Somalia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  165. 33 South Sudan 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  166. 33 Sri Lanka 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  167. 33 Sudan 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  168. 33 Suriname 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  169. 33 Syria 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  170. 33 Tajikistan 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  171. 33 Tanzania 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  172. 33 Thailand 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  173. 33 Togo 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  174. 33 Tonga 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  175. 33 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  176. 33 Tunisia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  177. 33 Turkey 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  178. 33 Turkmenistan 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  179. 33 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  180. 33 Tuvalu 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  181. 33 Uganda 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  182. 33 United States Virgin Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  183. 33 Uruguay 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  184. 33 Uzbekistan 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  185. 33 Vanuatu 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  186. 33 Venezuela 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  187. 33 Vietnam 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  188. 33 Western Sahara 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  189. 33 Yemen 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  190. 33 Zambia 0 kilowatt-hours per person
  191. 33 Zimbabwe 0 kilowatt-hours per person

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Frequently asked questions

What is primary energy from nuclear per person in Brazil?
Primary energy from nuclear per person in Brazil was 224.94 kilowatt-hours per person in 2025, according to Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
What is the highest primary energy from nuclear per person recorded in Brazil?
The highest recorded value was 246.86 kilowatt-hours per person in 2012.
What is the lowest primary energy from nuclear per person recorded in Brazil?
The lowest recorded value was 0 kilowatt-hours per person in 1965.
How does Brazil rank for primary energy from nuclear per person?
Brazil ranks 30th out of 218 countries with data for 2025.
Is primary energy from nuclear per person rising or falling in Brazil?
Over the last ten years it is up 1.6%. 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); Smil (2017); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Primary energy from nuclear per person. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Primary energy from nuclear per person
Unit
kilowatt-hours per person
Source
Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
218 places, 10,573 data points, 1965–2025
Last refreshed

Measured in kilowatt-hours of total energy supply per person.