Carbon Intensity of Electricity

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: electricity-carbon-intensity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Carbon Intensity of Electricity: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	193	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	193	0
Carbon intensity (gCO₂e/kWh)emissions_intensityHeadline	The headline figure: Carbon intensity (gCO₂e per kWh generated).	Number · up to 3 decimals	23.49Ethiopia1,306.15Turkmenistanmiddle 468.81	193	0
Fossil fuels (% of generation)fossil_shareMeasure	Share of the electricity generated that came from coal, gas and other fossil fuels, in per cent.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.0007 share it100.0004 share itmiddle 64.341	182	0
Total generation (TWh)generation_twhMeasure	Total electricity generated in the country during the year, from all sources, in terawatt-hours.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.010Montserrat10,025.008Chinamiddle 14.770	188	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

The newest 12 of 25 years.

Not in this dataset · 21 places this site covers

Ember gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AndorraAnguillaBermudaChannel IslandsCuraçaoGibraltarIsle of ManLiechtensteinMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoNiueNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomalilandTimor-LesteTuvaluVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Ember

   ember-energy.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Carbon Intensity of Electricity 2024

   release_generation_yearly_global.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 25, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   25 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as electricity-carbon-intensity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/electricity-carbon-intensityA key for Energy in the Country Index.

From Ember's Yearly Electricity Data, the same public download its own data explorer offers, taken from Ember's whole-system “Total generation” row.

• Charted

  Carbon Intensity of Electricity by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• In the Country Index

  A key for Energy

  “How much greenhouse gas a country's power stations emit for every unit of electricity they produce.”

  Energy standings

• Subjects

  • Energy
  • Environment & Sustainability

• Near neighbours

  • CO₂ Emissions per CapitaGlobal Carbon Project · 75 held · 1950–2024
  • Renewable Share of Electricity GenerationEmber · 25 held · 2000–2024
  • World Energy Trilemma IndexWorld Energy Council · 1 held · 2023