India vs USSR: Annual change in primary energy from hydropower

India

21.55 terawatt-hours

in 2025

USSR

22.63 terawatt-hours

in 1984

India rank

2nd

USSR rank

1st

Annual change in primary energy from hydropower over time

USSR currently reports 22.63 terawatt-hours against 21.55 terawatt-hours in India, a difference of 1.08 terawatt-hours.

That makes USSR's figure about 1.1 times India's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 19 shared years of data; in 1966 it was USSR ahead.

India ranks 2nd and USSR ranks 1st of 77 countries.

Indicator: Annual change in primary energy from hydropower
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: 82 places, 4,604 data points, 1966–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Change in total energy supply relative to the previous year, measured in terawatt-hours.