China vs USSR: Annual change in primary energy from oil

China

227.96 terawatt-hours

in 2025

USSR

0.7119 terawatt-hours

in 1984

China rank

1st

USSR rank

3rd

Annual change in primary energy from oil over time

China currently reports 227.96 terawatt-hours against 0.7119 terawatt-hours in USSR, a difference of 227.25 terawatt-hours.

That makes China's figure about 320.2 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 19 shared years of data; in 1966 it was USSR ahead.

China ranks 1st and USSR ranks 3rd of 79 countries.

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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