The purpose of this study was to investigate the comparison between electricity production, electricity consumption, electricity production capacity and economic growth of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh and to forecast these variables till 2030 through ANN technique. The secondary data was gathered from year 1980 to 2018. First all the variables were examined through regression analysis to find the relationship among them then, an Artificial Neural Network was developed to predict the future values of the variables.
Keywords: Forecasting, Electricity, Consumption, Production, ANN, Regression

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Paper ID: IJMETS-20250630-****

Published Date: 13 Aug 2025
Number of pages: 1-13

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