Countries With the Cleanest Electricity Grids 2024
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Countries With the Cleanest Electricity Grids 2024Ethiopia has the least carbon-intensive electricity in the world at 23.4 gCO2/kWh, with Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay and Costa Rica all within about two grams of it - a group defined by near-total hydropower on relatively small grids. France is the outlier that matters at 40.5 g, because it achieves that on 562 TWh, roughly 22 times Ethiopia's output and the largest system in this ranking by a wide margin. Norway at 29.7 g and Sweden at 34.9 g show the same pattern at mid scale. The spread from first to fifteenth is only about 62 grams.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- Ember - Yearly Electricity Data
- Coverage
- 15 entities · 2024 · 15 observations
- Measure
- Electricity CO2 Intensity (gCO2 per kWh)
- Last updated
- 15 August 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
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- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
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