China vs United States: Annual change in primary energy from wind

China
130.88 terawatt-hours
in 2025
United States
12.61 terawatt-hours
in 2025
China rank
1st
United States rank
3rd

Annual change in primary energy from wind over time

  • China
  • United States
050100150200196619952025

How they compare

China currently reports 130.88 terawatt-hours against 12.61 terawatt-hours in United States, a difference of 118.27 terawatt-hours.

That makes China's figure about 10.4 times United States's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1966 it was United States ahead.

China ranks 1st and United States ranks 3rd of 77 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual change in primary energy from wind
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
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Change in total energy supply relative to the previous year, measured in terawatt-hours.