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China vs CIS (EI): Electricity generation from low-carbon sources

China
4,408 terawatt-hours
in 2025
CIS (EI)
526.44 terawatt-hours
in 2025
China rank
1st
CIS (EI) rank
2nd

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources over time

  • China
  • CIS (EI)
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How they compare

China currently reports 4,408 terawatt-hours against 526.44 terawatt-hours in CIS (EI), a difference of 3,882 terawatt-hours.

That makes China's figure about 8.4 times CIS (EI)'s.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was CIS (EI) ahead.

China ranks 1st and CIS (EI) ranks 2nd of 209 countries.

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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.