plate 363 · 2025 data

Outside China, nuclear power has not grown since 2015

Change in nuclear electricity, TWh, 2015 to 2025, in the 31 countries with nuclear power outside China. Ember yearly data.

The energy switch
  1. 1. China now uses more electricity per person than the EU
  2. 2. Solar now makes more of Brazil's power than fossil fuels
  3. 3. Rooftop solar now outsizes coal on Australia's main grid
  4. 4. Volcanic heat makes nearly 45% of the power Kenya generates
  5. 5. France swung from power importer to record exporter
  6. 6. Over a quarter of China's new heavy trucks are electric
  7. 7. Nepal imports twice as many electric cars as petrol cars
  8. 8. The US now ships a quarter of the world's LNG
  9. 9. Kazakhstan mines more uranium than Canada and Namibia combined
  10. 10. Indonesia now mines two-thirds of the world's nickel
  11. 11. India had 27 million ACs for 1.3 billion people
  12. 12. Sun and wind now beat fossil fuels in Chile
  13. 13. Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric
  14. 14. Argentina mined 60% more lithium in just one year
  15. 15. Ethiopia added over a third of Africa's new renewable power
  16. 16. Only 16 countries are building new coal power plants
  17. 17. Egypt's sun and wind now outproduce its Nile dams
  18. 18. The price of lithium fell 86% in three years
  19. 19. Pakistan now gets more power from solar than from coal
  20. 20. Oil now makes less than a third of Saudi power
  21. 21. The Philippines is building more solar than it already runs
  22. 22. Nine in ten Indonesians now cook with clean fuels
  23. 23. Rwanda spread electricity faster than any country since 2014
  24. 24. India's sun and wind now outproduce Germany's
  25. 25. Solar now beats coal in 25 of 81 coal-burning countries
  26. 26. Indonesia climbed from ninth to second among cobalt miners
  27. 27. Fossil fuels fell from all to two-thirds of UAE power
  28. 28. DR Congo tripled its copper mining in ten years
  29. 29. Paraguay now uses most of the power it makes
  30. 30. Nigeria now imports more solar panels than generators
  31. 31. Zimbabwe climbed to fourth among the world's lithium miners
  32. 32. Coal's share of Bangladesh's power jumped from 2% to 22%
  33. 33. Guyana now emits more CO2 per person than Britain
  34. 34. Nepal now sells more electricity than it buys
  35. 35. Emerging economies now take 42% of China's electric car exports
  36. 36. China's car sales to Ethiopia are now mostly electric
  37. 37. Saudi Arabia's battery imports grew 46-fold since 2019
  38. 38. Pakistan became the world's third-biggest buyer of solar panels
  39. 39. Solar beats hydropower in 28 of 131 countries
  40. 40. Viet Nam reached 10% solar in two years, Germany 13
  41. 41. Indonesia became America's biggest solar panel supplier
  42. 42. Solar overtook wind power in 24 countries in ten years
  43. 43. Brazil rose from 15th to 4th in wind power
  44. 44. Sub-Saharan Africa now holds 88% of people without electricity
  45. 45. Argentina took five years to reach 10% wind power
  46. 46. The G7 added 9% of new electricity demand outside China
  47. 47. Outside China, nuclear power has not grown since 2015
−7.6 TWh

net change in nuclear power outside China, 2015 to 2025: from 2,274 to 2,267 TWh. China alone added 314.

+91 TWh

from the UAE (+39.1), Pakistan (+19.7), Belarus (+17.0) and India (+15.5). The UAE and Belarus made none in 2015.

−204 TWh

from Germany (−91.8), France (−45.4), the UK (−34.0) and Taiwan (−33.2). Japan's restarts gave back +89.5.

Source: Ember, Yearly electricity data: electricity generation from nuclear, 2025
the numbers & method

Claim types Fact

Ember, yearly electricity data (Nuclear, version 70ece38240), electricity generation from nuclear, TWh, read from Ember's data file via the progrss vault (§4.11, ember passes value_checks). Fixed set: the 84 countries with a value in both 2015 and 2025, of which 32 generate nuclear power (31 outside China). Ukraine (87.6 TWh in 2015; 62.2 in 2022, its last year in the data) has no 2023 to 2025 values and is left out of both years, so the true level outside China in 2025 may be lower than shown, not higher. Every other country with a 2015 value and no 2025 value generates no nuclear power. Parts are progrss calculations and add up exactly: Japan +89.54 (4.52 to 94.06); UAE, Belarus, Pakistan and India +91.20 (42.64 to 133.84); Russia and Korea +43.08 (360.23 to 403.31); 18 other countries +1.59 (Finland +9.5, Czechia +5.1, Slovakia +4.2, Argentina +3.7 against Sweden −9.7, Switzerland −3.7, Spain −3.1); Germany, France, UK and Taiwan −204.36 (636.03 to 431.67); US and Canada −28.67 (898.28 to 869.61). Total outside China −7.62 TWh (2,274.41 to 2,266.79, 31 countries). China 171.38 to 485.23 (+313.85). Same set, outside China, by year: 2,243 (2012), 2,322 (2019), 2,161 (2022), 2,271 (2024), 2,267 (2025). Output is generation, not capacity; 2015 sits after the post-2011 trough in Japan and Germany. Claim type: Fact (publisher values), parts are derived.

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