Canada Consumes More Electricity Per Capita Than All But 7 Other Countries

The map above shows the suprising fact that Canadians consume more electricity per person than almost any other country on earth using a staggering 14,930 kWh per person annually. This includes domestic, commercial and industrial use.

Only 7 countries consume more electricity per capita and all of them have populations under 10 million people compared to Canada’s 37 million.

Those country’s are:

1. Iceland – 50,613 kWh
2. Liechtenstein – 35,848 kWh
3. Norway – 24,006 kWh
4. Kuwait – 19,062 kWh
5. Bahrain – 18,130 kWh
6. United Arab Emirates – 16,195 kWh
7. Qatar – 15,055 kWh

The United States is not far behind Canada consuming 12,071 kWh per person per year. The world average is just 2,674 kWh per person per year, which means Canadians consume about 5.6x the world average.

Here’s how a few other major countries stack up:

• Australia – 9,742 kWh
• New Zealand – 8,939 kWh
• Singapore – 8,160 kWh
• Russia – 7,481 kWh
• Japan – 7,371 kWh
• Germany – 6,602 kWh
• France – 6,448 kWh
• Ireland – 5,047 kWh
• United Kingdom – 4,795 kWh
• China – 4,475 kWh
• India – 1,122 kWh

Chad has the lowest electricity consumption per capita at just 16 kWh per person per year. This means just one Canadian uses almost as much electricity per year as 1,000 Chadians.

All of this electricity consumption makes Canada is the 7th largest total consumer of electricity in the world, despite only being the 39th most populous. Canada consumes more total electricity than Brazil, South Korea, France, UK, Italy, Australia or Mexico.

All data comes from Wikipida’s List of countries by electricity consumption and is mostly from 2014-2016. The map was created using MapChart.net.

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