Electricity demand growth: China vs. rest of world
This chart compares the annual change in China’s electricity demand with the change across the rest of the world. It uses Ember’s harmonized yearly dataset and derives the rest-of-world series by subtracting China from the global change; the values measure electricity demand in TWh, not generating capacity or installations.
What does it show?
China continues to account for more electricity-demand growth than the rest of the world combined.
Methodology
Uses Ember's annual Demand series for China and the World. China's change is the current calendar-year level minus the prior year. Rest of world is the World's annual change minus China's annual change, so the two bars sum to the published global change apart from rounding. Values measure changes in electricity demand expressed in terawatt-hours, not generation capacity, installations, or electricity use attributable to any particular industry. Ember harmonizes open-source inputs, including national statistical data.