China vs Saudi Arabia: Annual change in primary energy from gas

China
86.65 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Saudi Arabia
101.86 terawatt-hours
in 2025
China rank
3rd
Saudi Arabia rank
2nd

Annual change in primary energy from gas over time

  • China
  • Saudi Arabia
0100200300400196619952025

How they compare

Saudi Arabia currently reports 101.86 terawatt-hours against 86.65 terawatt-hours in China, a difference of 15.21 terawatt-hours.

That makes Saudi Arabia's figure about 1.2 times China's.

The two have swapped places 17 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1966 it was China ahead.

China ranks 3rd and Saudi Arabia ranks 2nd of 76 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual change in primary energy from gas
Unit
terawatt-hours
Source
Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
79 places, 4,097 data points, 1966–2025
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Change in total energy supply relative to the previous year, measured in terawatt-hours.