Energy reference · updated 2026-08-26
Electricity prices by country
Residential price per kilowatt-hour in 44 countries, in local currency and US dollars, with the source and an honest confidence flag on every row. The world median here is $0.176/kWh.
How to read this table
Preference order for sources: national regulator or statistics office (Eurostat nrg_pc_204 for EU/EFTA/candidate countries; EIA for the US; Ofgem, OEB, AER, MBIE, NEPRA, PUCSL, PURC, BERC/DESCO, ERC, ESDM, ANEEL/Enel, CNE/Enel, Eskom, NERC, Meralco, SP Group, EVN, TNB, TEPCO, KEPCO), then reproductions of official schedules, then press reports of official decisions. Where a country has no national tariff, the largest utility or capital-city tariff is used and named in `basis`. The quoted slab is the one a typical urban household falls in (usually 200–300 kWh/month). usdPerKwh is rounded to 4 decimals. Confidence: "source-backed" = figure read from the regulator/utility/statistics publication (or from a faithful reproduction of that schedule with the official URL cited and the value cross-checked); "approximate" = figure from secondary compilations or press where the official page could not be retrieved, or a stale/proxy value, or one that includes a variable monthly component taken from a secondary source; "estimate" = no verifiable current figure (none in this release). Source URLs were checked with curl on 2026-08-26; sites that return HTTP 403 to automated clients (DEWA, TNB, TEPCO, CFE) are noted in `notes`. Prices are sorted from cheapest to most expensive. "Source-backed" rows come from a regulator, utility, or statistics office; "approximate" rows use an aggregator or an average across regions; "estimate" rows are rounded and should be treated as an order of magnitude. Every country links to its own page with sample bills and the calculators that use its rate.
What moves the price
Generation mix, fuel imports, network costs, taxes, and subsidies explain most of the spread. Countries at the top of the table typically subsidise residential supply or generate from cheap hydro or domestic gas; countries at the bottom carry high grid charges, carbon pricing, or imported fuel. Step (slab) tariffs — common in South Asia — mean the marginal price of your next kilowatt-hour can be far above the average shown here, which is why the country pages show sample bills at 100, 250, and 500 kWh.
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Use the rate in a calculation
Every country page pre-fills the electricity cost calculator, the EV charging cost calculator, and the appliance running cost calculator with that country's rate.