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Greenland vs Spain: Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity

Greenland
150 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Spain
153.6 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2025
Greenland rank
174th
Spain rank
172nd

Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity over time

  • Greenland
  • Spain
100200300400500199020072025

How they compare

Spain currently reports 153.6 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour against 150 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour in Greenland, a difference of 3.6 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Spain ahead.

Greenland ranks 174th and Spain ranks 172nd 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.