Canada vs Panama: Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity

Canada
190.72 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2025
Panama
221.15 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Canada rank
161st
Panama rank
158th

Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity over time

  • Canada
  • Panama
0100200300200020122025

How they compare

Panama currently reports 221.15 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour against 190.72 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour in Canada, a difference of 30.43 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour.

That makes Panama's figure about 1.2 times Canada's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Canada ahead.

Canada ranks 161st and Panama ranks 158th 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.