193 countries ranked by grid carbon intensity, 2024

United Kingdom: #49 (207 g) · France: #11 (35 g) · Germany: #78 (361 g) · United States: national average: #73 (341 g) · middle of the table: 474 g

  1. #1Ethiopia23 g
  2. #2Bhutan24 g
  3. #3Nepal24 g
  4. #4Paraguay25 g
  5. #5Costa Rica25 g
  6. #6DR Congo28 g
  7. #7Iceland28 g
  8. #8Norway30 g
  9. #9Switzerland35 g
  10. #10Sweden35 g
  11. #11France35 g · official
  12. #12Sierra Leone48 g
  13. #13Namibia49 g
  14. #14Malawi55 g
  15. #15Uganda59 g
  16. #16Finland67 g
  17. #17Uruguay70 g
  18. #18Tajikistan71 g
  19. #19Kenya85 g
  20. #20Venezuela86 g

Grams of CO2e per kWh of electricity generated (CO2 only for the few official figures that count carbon dioxide alone). Only countries with a figure for that exact year are ranked. "Official" marks a government's own published figure; the rest are Ember's estimates.

Contains data from Ember, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (ember-energy.org), and the national sources listed below. The sources do not endorse us.