Electricity demand growth

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4.4%

Global · 2024

Electricity demand growth worldwide was 4.4% in 2024 (IEA).

Original source

Electricity demand growth: every country and year, and how it is measured

Publisher: IEA
Authority tier: T1 Official
Report: Executive summary – Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025
Locator: Global electricity demand on course to expand robustly in 2025 and 2026 despite economic headwinds
Retrieved: 15 Sep 2026
Status: Verified

What the source says

While slower than the 4.4% surge in 2024, growth forecasts of 3.3% for 2025 and 3.7% for 2026 remain among the highest rates observed in the past decade and well above the 2015-2023 average of 2.6%.
International Energy Agency, Executive summary – Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025, Global electricity demand on course to expand robustly in 2025 and 2026 despite economic headwinds

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International Energy Agency. (2024). Executive summary – Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-mid-year-update-2025/executive-summary. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMZ

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MLA: International Energy Agency. "Executive summary – Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025." 2024, https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-mid-year-update-2025/executive-summary. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMZ.
Chicago: International Energy Agency. "Executive summary – Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025." 2024. https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-mid-year-update-2025/executive-summary. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMZ.
BibTeX: @misc{iea2024electricitymbjpmz, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Executive summary – Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMZ}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-mid-year-update-2025/executive-summary. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }

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1 record reports a different value for this same indicator, region and period. We keep both rather than choosing or averaging. The disagreement is itself information.

Value	Divergence	Source organisation	Document	Locator	Details
4.3%	-0.1 pp	IEA	Emissions	Clean energy mitigates CO2 power emissions in 2025-2027	Open record

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Primary source

Publisher: International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
Authority tier: Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report: Executive summary – Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025
Type: Report
Published: —
Locator: Global electricity demand on course to expand robustly in 2025 and 2026 despite economic headwinds
Retrieved: 15 September 2026
Link status: Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence: CC by 4.0

Verification

Status: Verified
Review protocol: Editorial review
Checked on: 15 September 2026
Last revision: 15 September 2026
Permanent URL: /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMZ

Same indicator, other countries

2024 figures for the same indicator, ranked highest first.

Country or region	Value	Source	Details
China	7%	IEA	Open record
India	6%	IEA	Open record
United States	2.1%	IEA	Open record
European Union	1.6%	IEA	Open record

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Record last modified 15 September 2026. Value type: actual. Update cadence: annual. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPMZ.