Carbon Intensity of Electricity, 2024

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Carbon Intensity of Electricity, 2024: every country, as published by Ember.

Positionderived	Country	Carbon intensity (gCO₂e/kWh)	Fossil fuels (% of generation)	Total generation (TWh)
1	TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia	1,306.15	99.970	33.010
2	UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia	1,040.17	84.049	81.500
3	KosovoXKXSouthern Europe	925.04	91.407	6.750
4	BahrainBHRWestern Asia	902.48	99.736	37.950
5	BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	892.99	99.820	5.560
6	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	852.48	99.708	3.430
7	LibyaLBYNorthern Africa	826.92	99.971	34.590
8	MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	817.01	91.156	8.820
9	KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia	801.90	84.786	118.510
10	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	717.68	84.337	247.520
11	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa	715.57	79.121	5.460
12	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	710.37	85.179	507.263
13	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	707.10	77.557	2,035.197
14	SyriaSYRWestern Asia	706.19	96.463	24.880
15	MontserratMSRCaribbean	700.00	100.000	0.010
16	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	695.84	98.113	101.740
17	Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	691.95	97.840	454.640
18	IraqIRQWestern Asia	683.09	98.377	149.730
19	Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	681.26	99.895	9.550
20	Hong KongHKGEastern Asia	675.56	98.958	37.440
21	NigerNERWestern Africa	670.53	96.842	0.950
22	SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	668.02	67.938	36.960
23	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	662.50	100.000	0.080
24	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	658.82	100.000	0.510
25	GrenadaGRDCaribbean	658.33	100.000	0.240

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 468.81. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Fossil fuels (% of generation)

  Highest4 share it

  Lowest7 share it

  Middle country: 64.341

• Total generation (TWh)

  HighestChina10,025.008

  LowestMontserrat0.010

  Middle country: 14.770

• +0 / −8countries joined / left
• 173values changed, of 193 in both
• 55 · 118rose · fell
• 20unchanged

− Central African Republic− Comoros− Dominica− Faroe Islands− São Tomé and Príncipe− British Virgin Islands− United States Virgin Islands− Vanuatu

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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  Ember’s own file, on its own site.

  release_generation_yearly_global.csv

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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