Canada
CANCanada uses far more electricity per person than countries at its income level.
16,090 kWh a year, against a median of 6,775 across the 43 high-income countries here.
What this grid depends on
Three measures that say more about a country than how much power it makes. Open “what this means” on any of them if the term is new.
Cleaner than 7 in 10 grids worldwide.
What this means
How much planet-warming gas is released to make one unit of electricity. Two countries can generate exactly the same amount and one of them be ten times dirtier doing it. Lower is better.
Canada generates a surplus and sells it on.
What this means
The share of what this country generates that is sold abroad rather than used at home. A country can only export if it produces more than it needs, which usually means plentiful hydro, nuclear or wind.
Almost everything this grid runs on comes from inside the country.
What this means
How much of what this grid runs on the country can supply itself. Sun, wind and water count fully, because nobody can cut them off; coal, gas and oil only as far as the country digs them up. A high score is not the same as a good grid: mining your own coal scores well, importing uranium scores badly.
Also true of Canada
Canada is third in the OECD for how much electricity it makes.
652 TWh a year.
Gas overtook nuclear on Canada's grid in 2022.
Today gas supplies 18% and nuclear 13%.
Canada is first in the G20 for hydro.
Hydro supplies 53% of its electricity.
Canada’s neighbours
United StatesThe United States is second in the world for how much electricity it makes.
GreenlandGreenland has cleaned up its grid faster than most people realise.
IcelandIceland uses more electricity per person than any country in the world.
NorwayNorway is second in the world for electricity used per person.
BermudaBermuda runs almost entirely on oil.
Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for Canada. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.