Nuclear share of total electricity generation in France from 1985 to 2024

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Release date

August 2025

Region

France

Survey time period

1985 to 2024

Supplementary notes

This statistic has been assembled using several editions of the report.

Figures have been rounded.

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Share of nuclear electricity in France 1985-2024

Published by
Won So,
Jan 20, 2026

Nuclear energy accounted for a ** percent share of France's total electricity production in 2024. In 2022, this figure dropped to the lowest share of electricity attributed to nuclear energy in France since the *****. However, France was the country with the largest share of nuclear power in the electricity production worldwide.

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