Germany vs Japan: Electricity generation from low-carbon sources

Germany
295.74 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Japan
336.82 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Germany rank
9th
Japan rank
8th

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources over time

  • Germany
  • Japan
100200300400196519952025

How they compare

Japan currently reports 336.82 terawatt-hours against 295.74 terawatt-hours in Germany, a difference of 41.08 terawatt-hours.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.1 times Germany's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Japan ahead.

Germany ranks 9th and Japan ranks 8th 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.