EV Charging Stations by Country 2026: Global Ranking

The world had about 6.97 million public EV charging points at the end of 2025, according to the International Energy Agency's Global EV Data Explorer, up roughly 30% in a single year. China has 4.68 million of them, about two-thirds of the global total, and more fast chargers than every other country combined. South Korea is a distant second with 491,170 public charging points, and the United States third with 240,000. But the country with the most chargers is not the country where a charger is easiest to find. Measured against the cars that use them, South Korea, India and the Netherlands have the densest networks, and the United Arab Emirates, New Zealand and Australia are the most stretched.

This ranking is the global follow-up to our EV charging stations by state report. It compares 25 countries on public charging points, fast chargers and EVs per public charger, all from end-2025 data, and adds what reliable figures exist for the Gulf.

Key numbers for 2026

• 6.97 million public charging points worldwide at the end of 2025: 4.3 million slow (22 kW and below), 1.7 million fast and 970,000 ultra-fast (150 kW and above).
• China: 4.68 million public points, 2.18 million of them fast or ultra-fast. China's National Energy Administration counts 4.717 million.
• 11 electric cars and vans for every public charger worldwide. China sits at 9.5, Europe at 14 and the United States at 33.
• South Korea has the most chargers per EV of any major market: about 2 electric light-duty vehicles per public charging point.
• Europe crossed 1.29 million public points, led by the Netherlands (207,300), Germany (199,000) and France (190,000).
• Fastest growth among large networks: Türkiye roughly tripled its public points in 2025, from 11,900 to 36,100, and Viet Nam grew from 12,400 to 32,000.

EV charging stations by country: the top 10

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Source: IEA Global EV Data Explorer, publicly available charging points (slow, fast and ultra-fast), end of 2025. IEA figures are rounded.

China's lead is hard to overstate. Its 4.68 million public charging points are nearly ten times South Korea's total and almost twenty times the United States'. The next nine countries on the list hold about 1.7 million points between them, around 37% of China's figure.

After China, the list splits into two groups. South Korea and the Netherlands built dense networks of slow chargers where people live and park, in apartment complexes in Korea and on residential streets in the Netherlands. The United States, Germany and France have larger countries to cover and have put more of their investment into fast charging along highways and at retail hubs.

Fast chargers by country

Slow chargers handle overnight and workplace charging. Fast chargers, above 22 kW in the IEA's definition, are what make long trips, taxi work and delivery fleets possible. Ranked by fast and ultra-fast points combined, the order changes sharply:

fast charging points

Source: IEA Global EV Data Explorer, end of 2025. Fast = above 22 kW, including ultra-fast (150 kW and above).

China has about 82% of all public fast chargers in the world: 2.18 million of the global 2.67 million. Almost half (46.6%) of its public points are fast or ultra-fast, and the IEA's Global EV Outlook 2026 notes that the average public charger in China now delivers more than 55 kW.

The United States moves up to second on fast charging, with 70,000 fast points, 51,000 of them ultra-fast. Germany is fourth with 49,000, and its 37,000 ultra-fast points are the most in Europe. The Netherlands, fourth on total points, drops out of the top 10 entirely: only 7,300 of its 207,300 public points, about 3.5%, are fast chargers. India is the surprise at sixth, with 33,000 fast points making up 37.5% of its network, a result of policy that targets highways and commercial fleets rather than on-street slow charging.

EVs per public charger: where charging is easiest

Totals favour large countries. The better guide to what an EV owner experiences is how many electric cars and vans share each public charging point. A lower number means more public charging for each vehicle.

EVs per charger

Source: IEA Global EV Data Explorer, electric light-duty vehicles per publicly available charging point, 2025.

Read the low numbers carefully. South Korea's ratio of about 2 is genuine density: the country has around 840,000 electric cars and a network of mostly slow chargers installed in apartment car parks, and the IEA calculates it has the most public charging capacity per EV in the world, at over 9 kW. India's 4.9 is different. It has a relatively small electric car fleet of about 410,000, so each charger has few cars to share it, even though the network itself is modest for a country of its size.

At the other end, Norway at 35 looks stretched, but it has the world's most mature EV market, where charging at home and at work is widespread. Its public network actually shrank slightly in 2025 (from 31,900 to 31,200 points), and about 45% of it is fast charging, so each public point does more work. The United States at 33 also relies heavily on home charging in single-family houses. The real pressure points are markets where EV sales have grown faster than the public network: Australia, Indonesia and Mexico at 41, New Zealand at 88 and the United Arab Emirates at 160.

Full ranking: public EV chargers in 25 countries

Ranked by publicly available charging points at the end of 2025. Points = all public charging points; Fast = fast and ultra-fast (above 22 kW); EVs/pt = electric light-duty vehicles per public point. Click a country to open its EV service market report.

Source: IEA Global EV Data Explorer, GEVO 2026 edition, historical data for 2025. All figures are end-2025 and rounded by the IEA. Just outside the top 25: Israel (11,700), Australia (11,100), Russia (9,899) and Greece (8,640).

China: the world's charging network

China's National Energy Administration reported 20.09 million charging facilities at the end of 2025, of which 4.717 million were public, up 31.9% in a year, and 15.375 million were private home and workplace chargers. The IEA's slightly different count, 4.68 million public points, still puts China at about two-thirds of the world's public network while it has around 60% of the world's electric car fleet.

Three things set China apart. First, speed: 2.18 million fast and ultra-fast public points, more than double the rest of the world combined. Second, density that keeps pace with sales: about 9.5 EVs per public charger, better than the global average even though China added millions of EVs in 2025. Third, the plan: the government is targeting 28 million charging facilities by the end of 2027, and the IEA notes announced plans to expand public charging by about 60% over the same period. For a closer look at the cars those chargers serve, see our China EV market report and our analysis of the China EV market for foreign EV service businesses.

Europe: dense in the north-west, thin in the east

Europe had about 1.29 million public charging points at the end of 2025 in the IEA data, and the European Union about 1.12 million. The EU's own European Alternative Fuels Observatory counted 1,170,493 public recharging points by mid-2026, 18.0% more than a year earlier.

• The Netherlands, Germany and France hold 596,300 public points between them, about 46% of Europe's total. The Netherlands leads on density with 6 EVs per point, built on slow on-street charging. Germany leads on ultra-fast charging.
• The United Kingdom had about 116,000 public points in the IEA data. The UK's charging data platform Zapmap counted 87,796 charging devices with 116,052 connectors (EVSEs) at 45,033 locations at the end of 2025, and 9,893 ultra-rapid devices of 150 kW and above, up 41% in a year.
• The Nordics grow in different directions. Denmark's public network grew 54% in 2025 to 51,600 points and Sweden's 35% to 62,200, while Norway's was flat.
• Southern and eastern Europe are smaller but growing. Spain added 31% to reach 53,600 points and Poland 36% to reach 11,800. The IEA reports that Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania each grew their public networks by more than 50% in 2025.

Across Europe, about 22.5% of public points are fast or ultra-fast, compared with 46.6% in China.

United States: fewer chargers, more cars per charger

The IEA counts about 240,000 public charging points in the United States at the end of 2025, 70,000 of them fast or ultra-fast. The Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center is more current: 256,643 public charging ports on 14 September 2026, including 75,884 DC fast ports.

The United States has about 10% of the world's electric cars but only about 3% of its public chargers, which is why it has 33 EVs per public point, three times the global average. Home charging in detached houses covers much of that gap. The network is also very uneven: California alone has more than a quarter of all US public ports, while New Jersey and Hawaii have more than 40 plug-in vehicles per port. Our state-by-state charging ranking and the US state market reports break that down.

Asia-Pacific beyond China

• South Korea (491,170 public points in the IEA data) has the world's densest network relative to its fleet. Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport counted 397,519 chargers at the end of 2025, with 10.6% capable of fast charging. The two sources count differently, but both show a network dominated by slow chargers.
• India (88,000 points, up 16%) has a high fast-charging share, and the government's PM E-DRIVE scheme has set aside INR 20 billion for public charging, targeting 22,100 fast chargers.
• Japan (39,000 points, 11,000 fast) grew 22% in 2025 but remains small relative to its car market; the government targets 300,000 public chargers, including 30,000 fast chargers, by 2030.
• Viet Nam (32,000 points) grew 2.6 times in a year, from 12,400, and has 9 EVs per public charger.
• Thailand (11,900 points) has the highest fast-charging share in the table at 57%, but its ratio worsened from 19 to 31 EVs per charger as sales outpaced installations.
• Australia (11,100) and New Zealand (1,470) are among the most stretched developed markets, at 41 and 88 EVs per public charger.

The Gulf and Middle East

Public charging data for the Gulf is still thin, and the IEA groups most of the region together. Its Middle East and Caspian region had only about 3,300 public charging points at the end of 2025 for around 400,000 electric cars, a ratio of 96 EVs per charger. Home and villa chargers are not counted in that figure. What national sources reliably show:

• United Arab Emirates: the IEA counts about 1,400 public points nationally and 160 EVs per charger, the most stretched ratio of any country it tracks. Local data suggests the national figure is incomplete: Dubai's utility DEWA reported 1,860 charging points in Dubai alone at the end of 2025, up from 740 a year earlier, including chargers from licensed private operators. See our United Arab Emirates market report.
• Qatar: state utility Kahramaa announced in August 2025 that the country had passed 300 fast EV chargers, all DC units. See the Qatar market report.
• Oman: the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology had 160 public charging stations across the country in mid-2026, 49 of them in Muscat, and targets more than 350 by 2027. In September 2026 it launched Shahin, a national app that connects public chargers on one platform. See the Oman market report.
• Saudi Arabia: national operator EVIQ is building a highway and city fast-charging network, but no reliable national count of public chargers has been published, so we have left the kingdom out of the numbers. See the Saudi Arabia market report.

Our GCC EV adoption signals for 2026 covers the sales and policy side of the same story.

What the ratio means for EV owners and service businesses

The number of EVs per public charger is more than a league-table statistic. It shapes how owners use their cars, and what those cars need from the businesses that keep them on the road.

• For drivers without home charging, a high ratio means queues, detours and more reliance on the fastest available charger. In the UAE, Australia, Thailand and much of the United States, apartment dwellers feel that first.
• High fast-charging use raises battery questions. Where drivers depend on DC fast charging, as in China, Thailand, India and highway-heavy US states, owners and fleet managers ask more about battery wear and resale value. That is why independent battery state-of-health checks and a battery certificate at resale are becoming standard.
• Commercial fleets need uptime more than chargers. A ride-hailing car or delivery van that waits for a charger, or for a workshop, is earning nothing. Our fleet EV uptime playbook covers how operators plan around that.
• Charging networks follow fleets, and so does service demand. Countries adding chargers fastest, such as Türkiye, Viet Nam, Denmark and the Gulf states, are the markets where the number of EVs out of warranty will rise next. That is the demand an EV service franchise is designed to meet.

Methodology and sources

• Charging points, not stations. The IEA counts publicly available charging points (EVSE), each able to charge one vehicle at a time. A station or location can have many points. National sources sometimes count devices or locations instead, which is why Zapmap's 87,796 UK devices and the IEA's 116,000 UK points both appear in this article.
• Speed classes. The IEA defines slow chargers as 22 kW and below, fast chargers as above 22 kW and ultra-fast as 150 kW and above. Our "Fast" column adds fast and ultra-fast together.
• Year. Every figure in the ranking table and charts is end-2025 from the IEA's Global EV Data Explorer (GEVO 2026 edition). National figures quoted in the text are labelled with their own dates.
• EVs per charger is the IEA's ratio of electric light-duty vehicles (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars and vans) to public charging points. We have not recalculated it.
• Rounding. The IEA rounds most country figures, so its totals can differ slightly from the prose in the Global EV Outlook report and from national statistics.
• What we left out. Countries without a reliable published count, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain, are not ranked. We did not estimate any figure.

Frequently asked questions

Which country has the most EV charging stations?

China, by a very wide margin. It had about 4.68 million public charging points at the end of 2025 in IEA data, and 4.717 million according to China's National Energy Administration. That is roughly two-thirds of all public chargers in the world.

How many public EV chargers are there in the world?

About 6.97 million at the end of 2025, according to the IEA's Global EV Data Explorer: 4.3 million slow, 1.7 million fast and 970,000 ultra-fast. The network grew by roughly 30% during 2025.

Which country has the most fast chargers?

China, with about 2.18 million public fast and ultra-fast charging points, around 82% of the world total. The United States is second with about 70,000, followed by South Korea (51,170) and Germany (49,000).

Which country has the best EV charging coverage per electric car?

South Korea, with about 2 electric cars and vans per public charging point. India (4.9), the Netherlands (6) and Belgium (8.2) follow. The global average is 11.

Which country in Europe has the most EV charging points?

The Netherlands, with about 207,300 public charging points at the end of 2025, just ahead of Germany (199,000) and France (190,000). Germany has the most fast and ultra-fast chargers in Europe, at about 49,000.

How many EV charging stations are in the UAE?

The IEA counts about 1,400 public charging points nationally at the end of 2025, but that appears to undercount the network: Dubai's DEWA alone reported 1,860 charging points at the end of 2025, including private licensed operators. Either way, the UAE has one of the highest ratios of EVs per public charger in the world.

How many EV chargers does the United States have compared with other countries?

The United States ranks third in the world, with about 240,000 public charging points at the end of 2025 and 256,643 public ports in September 2026. It ranks second for fast chargers but has 33 EVs per public charger, three times the global average.

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