Canada vs France: Electricity generation from low-carbon sources

Canada
502.23 terawatt-hours
in 2025
France
540.63 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Canada rank
6th
France rank
5th

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources over time

  • Canada
  • France
0200400600199020072025

How they compare

France currently reports 540.63 terawatt-hours against 502.23 terawatt-hours in Canada, a difference of 38.4 terawatt-hours.

That makes France's figure about 1.1 times Canada's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Canada ahead.

Canada ranks 6th and France ranks 5th of 209 countries.

Individual pages

About this data

Indicator
Electricity generation from low-carbon sources
Unit
terawatt-hours
Source
Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
216 places, 7,081 data points, 1920–2025
Last refreshed

Measured in terawatt-hours. Low-carbon sources correspond to renewables and nuclear power, that produce significantly less greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuels. Renewables include solar, wind, hydropower, bioenergy, geothermal, wave, and tidal.