Germany vs United States: Electricity generation from wind

Germany

136.03 terawatt-hours

in 2025

United States

464.39 terawatt-hours

in 2025

Germany rank

3rd

United States rank

2nd

Electricity generation from wind over time

United States currently reports 464.39 terawatt-hours against 136.03 terawatt-hours in Germany, a difference of 328.36 terawatt-hours.

That makes United States's figure about 3.4 times Germany's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 40 shared years of data; in 1986 it was United States ahead.

Germany ranks 3rd and United States ranks 2nd of 212 countries.

Indicator: Electricity generation from wind
Unit: terawatt-hours
Source: Ember (2026); Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Pinto et al. (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 214 places, 6,974 data points, 1920–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured in terawatt-hours.