Primary energy from nuclear per person in India
India: Primary energy from nuclear per person was 111.4 kilowatt-hours per person in 2025. ◆ Volatile
Primary energy from nuclear per person in India, 1965–2025
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
In 2025, primary energy from nuclear per person in India stood at 111.4 kilowatt-hours per person.
That represents a change of down 2.5% on the previous year and up 27.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, primary energy from nuclear per person in India peaked at 114.25 kilowatt-hours per person in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0 kilowatt-hours per person, in 1965.
India ranks 31st of 217 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 | 0.8228 kilowatt-hours per person | 0 kilowatt-hours per person | 4.11 kilowatt-hours per person | 5 |
| 1970s | 9 kilowatt-hours per person | 4.91 kilowatt-hours per person | 12.86 kilowatt-hours per person | 10 |
| 1980s | 15.29 kilowatt-hours per person | 9.07 kilowatt-hours per person | 22.26 kilowatt-hours per person | 10 |
| 1990s | 25.04 kilowatt-hours per person | 15.92 kilowatt-hours per person | 37.15 kilowatt-hours per person | 10 |
| 2000s | 47.49 kilowatt-hours per person | 38.21 kilowatt-hours per person | 56.7 kilowatt-hours per person | 10 |
| 2010s | 81.11 kilowatt-hours per person | 56.25 kilowatt-hours per person | 98.53 kilowatt-hours per person | 10 |
| 2020s | 102.65 kilowatt-hours per person | 94.11 kilowatt-hours per person | 114.25 kilowatt-hours per person | 6 |
Countries ranked near India
- 28 Mexico 232.07 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 29 Brazil 224.94 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 30 Iran 176.68 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Afghanistan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Albania 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Algeria 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 American Samoa 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Angola 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Antigua and Barbuda 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Aruba 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Australia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Austria 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Azerbaijan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Bahamas 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Bahrain 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Bangladesh 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Barbados 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Belize 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Benin 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Bermuda 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Bhutan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Bolivia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Botswana 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 British Virgin Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Brunei 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Burkina Faso 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Burundi 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Cambodia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Cameroon 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Cape Verde 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Cayman Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Central African Republic 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Chad 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Chile 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Colombia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Comoros 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Congo 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Cook Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Costa Rica 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Cote d'Ivoire 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Croatia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Cuba 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Curacao 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Cyprus 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Denmark 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Djibouti 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Dominica 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Dominican Republic 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 East Timor 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Ecuador 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Egypt 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 El Salvador 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Equatorial Guinea 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Eritrea 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Estonia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Eswatini 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Ethiopia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Falkland Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Faroe Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Fiji 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 French Guiana 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 French Polynesia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Gabon 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Gambia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Georgia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Germany 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Ghana 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Greece 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Greenland 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Grenada 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Guam 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Guatemala 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Guinea 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Guinea-Bissau 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Guyana 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Haiti 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Honduras 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Hong Kong 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Iceland 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Indonesia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Iraq 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Israel 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Italy 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Jamaica 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Jordan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Kazakhstan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Kenya 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Kiribati 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Kuwait 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Kyrgyzstan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Laos 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Latvia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Lebanon 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Lesotho 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Liberia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Libya 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Lithuania 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Macao 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Madagascar 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Malawi 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Malaysia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Maldives 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Mali 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Mauritania 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Mauritius 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Micronesia (country) 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Moldova 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Mongolia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Montenegro 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Montserrat 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Morocco 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Mozambique 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Myanmar 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Namibia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Nauru 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Nepal 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Netherlands Antilles 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 New Caledonia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 New Zealand 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Nicaragua 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Niger 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Nigeria 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Niue 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 North Korea 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 North Macedonia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Northern Mariana Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Norway 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Oman 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Palestine 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Panama 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Papua New Guinea 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Paraguay 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Peru 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Philippines 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Poland 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Portugal 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Puerto Rico 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Qatar 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Reunion 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Rwanda 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Saint Helena 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Saint Lucia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Samoa 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Saudi Arabia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Senegal 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Serbia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Seychelles 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Sierra Leone 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Singapore 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Solomon Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Somalia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 South Sudan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Sri Lanka 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Sudan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Suriname 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Syria 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Tajikistan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Tanzania 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Thailand 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Togo 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Tonga 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Trinidad and Tobago 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Tunisia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Turkey 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Turkmenistan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Tuvalu 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Uganda 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 United States Virgin Islands 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Uruguay 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Uzbekistan 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Vanuatu 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Venezuela 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Vietnam 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Western Sahara 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Yemen 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Zambia 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
- 32 Zimbabwe 0 kilowatt-hours per person compare
More energy & mining data for India
- Fuel imports 31.5% (2024)
- Ores and metals imports 6.9% (2024)
- Ores and metals exports 3.7% (2024)
- Gas production 311.65 terawatt-hours (2025)
- Fossil fuel production per person, by fuel 212.9 kilowatt-hours per person (2025)
- Fossil fuel production by fuel 311.65 terawatt-hours (2025)
- Gas production per person 212.9 kilowatt-hours per person (2025)
- Fuel exports 17.1% (2024)
- Electric power transmission and distribution losses 14.2% (2023)
- Share of dietary energy supply from carbohydrates vs. GDP per capita 66.7% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is primary energy from nuclear per person in India?
- Primary energy from nuclear per person in India was 111.4 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 India?
- The highest recorded value was 114.25 kilowatt-hours per person in 2024.
- What is the lowest primary energy from nuclear per person recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 kilowatt-hours per person in 1965.
- How does India rank for primary energy from nuclear per person?
- India ranks 31st out of 217 countries with data for 2025.
- Is primary energy from nuclear per person rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 27.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this India 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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Measured in kilowatt-hours of total energy supply per person.