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Electricity used worldwide this year
- 28,600 TWh Actual · 2025 · IEA
- 906 megawatt-hours per second, modelled
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Putting it in perspective
- Per second
- 906
- Per minute
- 54,376
- Per hour
- 3,262,605
- Per day
- 78,302,532
- Still to come this year
- 7,333,722,559
Counted in megawatt-hours.
How this number is made
- Source
- IEA, Global electricity demand growth set to accelerate as power systems adjust to recent shocks
“Global electricity consumption is projected to reach 30,700 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2027, compared with 28,600 TWh in 2025.”
- Step 01
Take IEA’s figure for 2025: 28,600 TWh.
- Step 02
Convert the unit: terawatt-hours × 1,000,000 = megawatt-hours, which gives 28,600,000,000 megawatt-hours a year.
- Step 03
Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 906 megawatt-hours per second.
- Step 04
Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
- On screen
- The result of those steps, recomputed four times a second in your browser. Nothing on this page is fetched live from the publisher.
- Why this can't be exact
- Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. It runs at the 2025 pace until a figure for the current year is published. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.
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StatOrigin. (2026). Electricity used worldwide this year [Live counter, extrapolated from IEA]. Retrieved 29 Sep 2026, from https://statorigin.org/live/electricity-used