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Primary energy from nuclear in Iran

Iran: Primary energy from nuclear was 16.33 terawatt-hours in 2025. ◆ Volatile

Latest (2025)
16.33 terawatt-hours
Change on year
down 23.4%
World rank
29th
of 213 countries
All-time high
21.32 terawatt-hours
in 2024
All-time low
0 terawatt-hours
in 1965
Years of data
61
1965–2025

Primary energy from nuclear in Iran, 1965–2025

05101520196519952025

Source: Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in terawatt-hours.

Analysis

Iran recorded 16.33 terawatt-hours for primary energy from nuclear in 2025.

The figure is down 23.4% on the previous year and up 54.2% over ten years.

Over the whole period, primary energy from nuclear in Iran peaked at 21.32 terawatt-hours in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0 terawatt-hours, in 1965.

Iran ranks 29th of 213 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

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1960s 0 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 5
1970s 0 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 10
1980s 0 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 10
1990s 0 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 10
2000s 0 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 10
2010s 12.15 terawatt-hours 0 terawatt-hours 21.08 terawatt-hours 10
2020s 17.93 terawatt-hours 10.72 terawatt-hours 21.32 terawatt-hours 6

Countries ranked near Iran

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  3. 28 Slovenia 17.68 terawatt-hours compare
  4. 30 Netherlands 12.17 terawatt-hours compare
  5. 31 Taiwan 9.81 terawatt-hours compare
  6. 32 Afghanistan 0 terawatt-hours compare
  7. 32 Albania 0 terawatt-hours compare
  8. 32 Algeria 0 terawatt-hours compare
  9. 32 American Samoa 0 terawatt-hours compare
  10. 32 Angola 0 terawatt-hours compare
  11. 32 Antarctica 0 terawatt-hours compare
  12. 32 Antigua and Barbuda 0 terawatt-hours compare
  13. 32 Aruba 0 terawatt-hours compare
  14. 32 Australia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  15. 32 Austria 0 terawatt-hours compare
  16. 32 Azerbaijan 0 terawatt-hours compare
  17. 32 Bahamas 0 terawatt-hours compare
  18. 32 Bahrain 0 terawatt-hours compare
  19. 32 Bangladesh 0 terawatt-hours compare
  20. 32 Barbados 0 terawatt-hours compare
  21. 32 Belize 0 terawatt-hours compare
  22. 32 Benin 0 terawatt-hours compare
  23. 32 Bermuda 0 terawatt-hours compare
  24. 32 Bhutan 0 terawatt-hours compare
  25. 32 Bolivia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  26. 32 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 terawatt-hours compare
  27. 32 Botswana 0 terawatt-hours compare
  28. 32 British Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
  29. 32 Brunei 0 terawatt-hours compare
  30. 32 Burkina Faso 0 terawatt-hours compare
  31. 32 Burundi 0 terawatt-hours compare
  32. 32 Cambodia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  33. 32 Cameroon 0 terawatt-hours compare
  34. 32 Cape Verde 0 terawatt-hours compare
  35. 32 Cayman Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
  36. 32 Central African Republic 0 terawatt-hours compare
  37. 32 Chad 0 terawatt-hours compare
  38. 32 Chile 0 terawatt-hours compare
  39. 32 Colombia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  40. 32 Comoros 0 terawatt-hours compare
  41. 32 Congo 0 terawatt-hours compare
  42. 32 Cook Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
  43. 32 Costa Rica 0 terawatt-hours compare
  44. 32 Cote d'Ivoire 0 terawatt-hours compare
  45. 32 Croatia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  46. 32 Cuba 0 terawatt-hours compare
  47. 32 Curacao 0 terawatt-hours compare
  48. 32 Cyprus 0 terawatt-hours compare
  49. 32 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 terawatt-hours compare
  50. 32 Denmark 0 terawatt-hours compare
  51. 32 Djibouti 0 terawatt-hours compare
  52. 32 Dominica 0 terawatt-hours compare
  53. 32 Dominican Republic 0 terawatt-hours compare
  54. 32 East Timor 0 terawatt-hours compare
  55. 32 Ecuador 0 terawatt-hours compare
  56. 32 Egypt 0 terawatt-hours compare
  57. 32 El Salvador 0 terawatt-hours compare
  58. 32 Equatorial Guinea 0 terawatt-hours compare
  59. 32 Eritrea 0 terawatt-hours compare
  60. 32 Estonia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  61. 32 Eswatini 0 terawatt-hours compare
  62. 32 Ethiopia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  63. 32 Falkland Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
  64. 32 Faroe Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
  65. 32 Fiji 0 terawatt-hours compare
  66. 32 French Guiana 0 terawatt-hours compare
  67. 32 French Polynesia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  68. 32 Gabon 0 terawatt-hours compare
  69. 32 Gambia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  70. 32 Georgia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  71. 32 Germany 0 terawatt-hours compare
  72. 32 Ghana 0 terawatt-hours compare
  73. 32 Greece 0 terawatt-hours compare
  74. 32 Greenland 0 terawatt-hours compare
  75. 32 Grenada 0 terawatt-hours compare
  76. 32 Guam 0 terawatt-hours compare
  77. 32 Guatemala 0 terawatt-hours compare
  78. 32 Guinea 0 terawatt-hours compare
  79. 32 Guinea-Bissau 0 terawatt-hours compare
  80. 32 Guyana 0 terawatt-hours compare
  81. 32 Haiti 0 terawatt-hours compare
  82. 32 Honduras 0 terawatt-hours compare
  83. 32 Hong Kong 0 terawatt-hours compare
  84. 32 Iceland 0 terawatt-hours compare
  85. 32 Indonesia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  86. 32 Iraq 0 terawatt-hours compare
  87. 32 Israel 0 terawatt-hours compare
  88. 32 Italy 0 terawatt-hours compare
  89. 32 Jamaica 0 terawatt-hours compare
  90. 32 Jordan 0 terawatt-hours compare
  91. 32 Kazakhstan 0 terawatt-hours compare
  92. 32 Kenya 0 terawatt-hours compare
  93. 32 Kiribati 0 terawatt-hours compare
  94. 32 Kuwait 0 terawatt-hours compare
  95. 32 Kyrgyzstan 0 terawatt-hours compare
  96. 32 Laos 0 terawatt-hours compare
  97. 32 Latvia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  98. 32 Lebanon 0 terawatt-hours compare
  99. 32 Lesotho 0 terawatt-hours compare
  100. 32 Liberia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  101. 32 Libya 0 terawatt-hours compare
  102. 32 Lithuania 0 terawatt-hours compare
  103. 32 Macao 0 terawatt-hours compare
  104. 32 Madagascar 0 terawatt-hours compare
  105. 32 Malawi 0 terawatt-hours compare
  106. 32 Malaysia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  107. 32 Maldives 0 terawatt-hours compare
  108. 32 Mali 0 terawatt-hours compare
  109. 32 Mauritania 0 terawatt-hours compare
  110. 32 Mauritius 0 terawatt-hours compare
  111. 32 Micronesia (country) 0 terawatt-hours compare
  112. 32 Moldova 0 terawatt-hours compare
  113. 32 Mongolia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  114. 32 Montenegro 0 terawatt-hours compare
  115. 32 Montserrat 0 terawatt-hours compare
  116. 32 Morocco 0 terawatt-hours compare
  117. 32 Mozambique 0 terawatt-hours compare
  118. 32 Myanmar 0 terawatt-hours compare
  119. 32 Namibia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  120. 32 Nauru 0 terawatt-hours compare
  121. 32 Nepal 0 terawatt-hours compare
  122. 32 Netherlands Antilles 0 terawatt-hours compare
  123. 32 New Caledonia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  124. 32 New Zealand 0 terawatt-hours compare
  125. 32 Nicaragua 0 terawatt-hours compare
  126. 32 Niger 0 terawatt-hours compare
  127. 32 Nigeria 0 terawatt-hours compare
  128. 32 Niue 0 terawatt-hours compare
  129. 32 North Korea 0 terawatt-hours compare
  130. 32 North Macedonia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  131. 32 Northern Mariana Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
  132. 32 Norway 0 terawatt-hours compare
  133. 32 Oman 0 terawatt-hours compare
  134. 32 Palestine 0 terawatt-hours compare
  135. 32 Panama 0 terawatt-hours compare
  136. 32 Papua New Guinea 0 terawatt-hours compare
  137. 32 Paraguay 0 terawatt-hours compare
  138. 32 Peru 0 terawatt-hours compare
  139. 32 Philippines 0 terawatt-hours compare
  140. 32 Poland 0 terawatt-hours compare
  141. 32 Portugal 0 terawatt-hours compare
  142. 32 Puerto Rico 0 terawatt-hours compare
  143. 32 Qatar 0 terawatt-hours compare
  144. 32 Reunion 0 terawatt-hours compare
  145. 32 Rwanda 0 terawatt-hours compare
  146. 32 Saint Helena 0 terawatt-hours compare
  147. 32 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 terawatt-hours compare
  148. 32 Saint Lucia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  149. 32 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 terawatt-hours compare
  150. 32 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 terawatt-hours compare
  151. 32 Samoa 0 terawatt-hours compare
  152. 32 Sao Tome and Principe 0 terawatt-hours compare
  153. 32 Saudi Arabia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  154. 32 Senegal 0 terawatt-hours compare
  155. 32 Serbia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  156. 32 Seychelles 0 terawatt-hours compare
  157. 32 Sierra Leone 0 terawatt-hours compare
  158. 32 Singapore 0 terawatt-hours compare
  159. 32 Solomon Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
  160. 32 Somalia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  161. 32 South Sudan 0 terawatt-hours compare
  162. 32 Sri Lanka 0 terawatt-hours compare
  163. 32 Sudan 0 terawatt-hours compare
  164. 32 Suriname 0 terawatt-hours compare
  165. 32 Syria 0 terawatt-hours compare
  166. 32 Tajikistan 0 terawatt-hours compare
  167. 32 Tanzania 0 terawatt-hours compare
  168. 32 Thailand 0 terawatt-hours compare
  169. 32 Togo 0 terawatt-hours compare
  170. 32 Tonga 0 terawatt-hours compare
  171. 32 Trinidad and Tobago 0 terawatt-hours compare
  172. 32 Tunisia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  173. 32 Turkey 0 terawatt-hours compare
  174. 32 Turkmenistan 0 terawatt-hours compare
  175. 32 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
  176. 32 Tuvalu 0 terawatt-hours compare
  177. 32 Uganda 0 terawatt-hours compare
  178. 32 United States Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
  179. 32 Uruguay 0 terawatt-hours compare
  180. 32 Uzbekistan 0 terawatt-hours compare
  181. 32 Vanuatu 0 terawatt-hours compare
  182. 32 Venezuela 0 terawatt-hours compare
  183. 32 Vietnam 0 terawatt-hours compare
  184. 32 Western Sahara 0 terawatt-hours compare
  185. 32 Yemen 0 terawatt-hours compare
  186. 32 Zambia 0 terawatt-hours compare
  187. 32 Zimbabwe 0 terawatt-hours compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is primary energy from nuclear in Iran?
Primary energy from nuclear in Iran was 16.33 terawatt-hours in 2025, according to Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
What is the highest primary energy from nuclear recorded in Iran?
The highest recorded value was 21.32 terawatt-hours in 2024.
What is the lowest primary energy from nuclear recorded in Iran?
The lowest recorded value was 0 terawatt-hours in 1965.
How does Iran rank for primary energy from nuclear?
Iran ranks 29th out of 213 countries with data for 2025.
Is primary energy from nuclear rising or falling in Iran?
Over the last ten years it is up 54.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
Where does this Iran data come from?
The figures come from Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Primary energy from nuclear. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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About this data

Indicator
Primary energy from nuclear
Unit
terawatt-hours
Source
Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
221 places, 10,754 data points, 1965–2025
Last refreshed

Measured in terawatt-hours of total energy supply.