Carbon intensity of electricity
- World median
- 329
- across 90 countries, 2025
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Source updated
- 27 Apr 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
- 23 – 116
- 116 – 189
- 189 – 329
- 329 – 486
- 486 – 590
- 590 – 1,000
- No data
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2025.
Top 5
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 28
- 35
Source: Our World in Data — energy · carbon_intensity_elec
Bottom 5
- 696
- 699
- 805
- 89Mongolia816
- 1,000
Source: Our World in Data — energy · carbon_intensity_elec
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- grams of CO₂ per kWh (gCO₂/kWh)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · Lower is better
- Valid range
- 0 – 1500
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source203 countries · 5,463 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0
OWID Energy dataset — https://github.com/owid/energy-data
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
128 of 218 countries have no value for 2025.
- Indonesia
- DR Congo
- Tanzania
- Myanmar
- Sudan
- Uganda
- Algeria
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- Yemen
- Angola
- Ukraine
- Saudi Arabia
- Mozambique
- Ghana
- Madagascar
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cameroon
- Nepal
- Venezuela
- Niger
- North Korea
- Syria
- Mali
- 104 more
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=carbon-intensity-electricity" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'