Canada vs Iceland: Primary energy from hydropower per person

Canada

8,684 kilowatt-hours per person

in 2025

Iceland

33,036 kilowatt-hours per person

in 2025

Canada rank

3rd

Iceland rank

1st

Primary energy from hydropower per person over time

Canada
Iceland

How they compare

Iceland currently reports 33,036 kilowatt-hours per person against 8,684 kilowatt-hours per person in Canada, a difference of 24,351 kilowatt-hours per person.

That makes Iceland's figure about 3.8 times Canada's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 61 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Canada ahead.

Canada ranks 3rd and Iceland ranks 1st of 79 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Primary energy from hydropower per person
Unit: kilowatt-hours per person
Source: Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 80 places, 4,564 data points, 1965–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured in kilowatt-hours of total energy supply per person.