Electricity used worldwide this year
Estimated range: 22,840,329,459 – 24,253,133,343 (±3%)
- 28,600 TWh Actual · 2025 · IEA
- 906 megawatt-hours per second, modelled
- Tier A (±3%) High confidence
- +0 Since you opened this page
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
- 5,033,692,965
Counted in megawatt-hours.
How this number is made
- Algorithm
- Annual flow spread
Evenly distributed across 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days) of the year.
- Confidence Tier
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Tier A High confidence
IEA global electricity balance compiling transmission grid operator dispatches and national energy balances.
- Error Band
- ±3%
Modelled range: 22,840,329,459 to 24,253,133,343
- Annualized Validation
- ≤ 3.0% tolerance passed
Pace: 28,600,000,000 megawatt-hours/yr vs cited reference 28,600,000,000 megawatt-hours/yr (exact match)
- Basis
- Actual for 2025
- Record
- STO-01M2KJ7XC4
- 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.
Frequently asked questions
Which published figure is the counter based on?
The International Energy Agency’s figure for 2025: 28,600 TWh.
How is the live number calculated?
Take IEA’s figure for 2025: 28,600 TWh. Convert the unit: terawatt-hours × 1,000,000 = megawatt-hours, which gives 28,600,000,000 megawatt-hours a year. Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 906 megawatt-hours per second. Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
How accurate is the counter?
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.
Where does the data come from?
The International Energy Agency, “Global electricity demand growth set to accelerate as power systems adjust to recent shocks”. The record quotes the publisher’s own sentence, and nothing on the page is fetched live from the publisher.
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StatOrigin. (2026). Electricity used worldwide this year [Live counter, extrapolated from IEA]. Retrieved 28 Oct 2026, from https://statorigin.org/live/electricity-used