China vs Iraq: Annual change in primary energy from oil

China
227.96 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Iraq
27.17 terawatt-hours
in 2025
China rank
1st
Iraq rank
4th

Annual change in primary energy from oil over time

  • China
  • Iraq
-2000200400600800196619952025

How they compare

China currently reports 227.96 terawatt-hours against 27.17 terawatt-hours in Iraq, a difference of 200.8 terawatt-hours.

That makes China's figure about 8.4 times Iraq's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1966 it was China ahead.

China ranks 1st and Iraq ranks 4th of 79 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual change in primary energy from oil
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, 4,598 data points, 1966–2025
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Change in total energy supply relative to the previous year, measured in terawatt-hours.