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Austria vs Brazil: Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity

Austria
116.91 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2025
Brazil
109.95 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2025
Austria rank
186th
Brazil rank
188th

Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity over time

  • Austria
  • Brazil
100150200250300199020072025

How they compare

Austria currently reports 116.91 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour against 109.95 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour in Brazil, a difference of 6.96 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour.

That makes Austria's figure about 1.1 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 26 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Austria ahead.

Austria ranks 186th and Brazil ranks 188th of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity
Unit
grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
Source
Ember (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
213 places, 5,691 data points, 1990–2025
Last refreshed

Greenhouse gases emitted per unit of generated electricity, measured in grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour.