List of largest dams

The following table lists the largest man-made dams by volume of fill/structure. A dam is generally defined as a barrier that impounds water or underground flows, so tailings dams are relegated to a separate list. Data on volume of structure is not as readily available or reliable as data on dam height and reservoir volume.

Type: TE - Earth; ER - Rock-fill; PG - Concrete gravity; CFRD - Concrete face rockfill

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Rank	Name	Country	Year completed	Structure volume (106 m3)	Structure height (m)	Reservoir volume (109 m3)	Installed capacity (MW)	Type
1	Tarbela Dam[1]	Pakistan	1976	153	143	13.7	4,888	TE/ER
2	Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam[2]	Ethiopia	2023	130 (est.)	155	74	5,150 (full)	CFRD
3	Fort Peck Dam[3]	United States	1940	96	76.4	23	185	TE
4	Atatürk Dam[4]	Turkey	1990	84.5	166	48.7	2,400	TE/ER
5	Houtribdijk	Netherlands	1968	78[5]	13	2[6]	0	TE/ER
6	Oahe Dam[3]	United States	1963	70.3	75	29	786	TE/ER
7	Mangla Dam	Pakistan	1967	65.4	147	9.12	1,000	TE/ER
8	Gardiner Dam[7]	Canada	1967	65.4	64	9.4	186	TE
9	Oroville Dam	United States	1968	59.6	230	4.36	819	TE/ER
10	San Luis Dam (BF Sisk Dam)	United States	1967	59.6	93	2.52	424	TE
11	Nurek Dam	Tajikistan	1980	54	300	10.5	3,200	TE
12	Samara Dam	Russia	1955	54[5]	52	57.3	2,315	TE/ER
13	Garrison Dam[3]	United States	1954	50.8	64	29	583.3	TE
14	Cochiti Dam	United States	1975	50.2	76.5	0.73	NA	TE
15	Aswan Dam[8]	Egypt	1970	44.3	111	169	2,100	TE/ER
16	W. A. C. Bennett Dam	Canada	1968	43.7	186	7.4	2,876	TE
17	San Roque Dam	Philippines	2003	40[9]	200	0.835	345	CFRD
18	Fort Randall Dam[3]	United States	1953	38.2	50.3	6.7	320	TE/ER
19	Afsluitdijk	Netherlands	1932	36.5[5]	13	5.5	0	TE/ER
20	Guri Dam	Venezuela	1978	29.8	162	135	10,235	PG/ER
21	Three Gorges Dam	China	2008	27.4[10]	181	39.3	22,500	PG
22	Belo Monte Dam	Brazil	2016	25.4	90	1.9	11,233	PG/ER
23	Itaipu Dam	Brazil  Paraguay	1984	12.8[11]	196	29	14,000	PG
24	Grand Coulee Dam	United States	1942	9.2	168	12	6,809	PG

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