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Brazil vs Kenya: Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity

Brazil
109.95 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2025
Kenya
95.44 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2025
Brazil rank
188th
Kenya rank
189th

Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity over time

  • Brazil
  • Kenya
100200300400200020122025

How they compare

Brazil currently reports 109.95 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour against 95.44 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour in Kenya, a difference of 14.51 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.2 times Kenya's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 26 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Kenya ahead.

Brazil ranks 188th and Kenya ranks 189th 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.