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Botswana vs Kazakhstan: Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity

Botswana
851.31 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Kazakhstan
805.32 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2025
Botswana rank
8th
Kazakhstan rank
11th

Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity over time

  • Botswana
  • Kazakhstan
0200400600800200020122025

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 851.31 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour against 805.32 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour in Kazakhstan, a difference of 45.99 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour.

That makes Botswana's figure about 1.1 times Kazakhstan's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 8th and Kazakhstan ranks 11th 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.