Manya Rathore
Research expert covering India
Electricity in Europe - statistics & facts
Europe’s electricity generation is becoming increasingly clean, with countries such as Greece generating more from renewables than from fossil fuels for the first time in recent years. In 2023, Europe came third among the largest global electricity consumers behind Asia, and North America. That same year, Europeans consumed approximately 3.2 petawatt-hours of electricity, roughly the same consumption of Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America combined. While the total electricity demand in European countries is mostly proportional to population size, Nordic countries are the most intense consumers in the region, with Iceland, Norway, and Finland recording the highest electricity consumption per capita.
