India: Electricity consumption, billion kilowatthours, 1980 - 2018:
For that indicator, we provide data for India from 1980 to 2018. The average value for India during that period was 476.04 billion kilowatthours with a minimum of 97.9 billion kilowatthours in 1980 and a maximum of 1277.17 billion kilowatthours in 2018.
The latest value from 2018 is 1277.17 billion kilowatthours. For comparison, the world average in 2018 based on 190
countries is 122.97 billion kilowatthours.
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Definition: Total Electricity Net Consumption = total net electricity generation + electricity imports - electricity exports – electricity transmission and distribution losses.
Net consumption excludes the energy consumed by the generating units.
