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Nigeria in Africa — Electricity Generation
How Nigeria's grid output compares with peer African economies since 2000. Nigeria currently ranks #3 of the five, at 41.5 TWh (2025).
#1 Egypt
245.7
TWh · 2025
#2 South Africa
242.8
TWh · 2025
#3 Nigeria
41.5
TWh · 2025
#4 Ghana
24.3
TWh · 2024
#5 Kenya
14.0
TWh · 2025
Grid electricity generation, 2000 → present
TWh per year · five economies
Source: Ember Yearly Electricity Data via Our World in Data · refreshed daily by NEDB
How to read this:South Africa and Egypt generate several times Nigeria's grid output despite smaller populations — the benchmark that frames Nigeria's generation-capacity challenge. Nigeria's line excludes self-generation (diesel/petrol generators), which independent estimates put at a scale comparable to the grid itself.