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Malawi vs Uganda: Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity

Malawi
54.65 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Uganda
58.52 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Malawi rank
197th
Uganda rank
195th

Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity over time

  • Malawi
  • Uganda
0100200300200020122024

How they compare

Uganda currently reports 58.52 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour against 54.65 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour in Malawi, a difference of 3.87 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour.

That makes Uganda's figure about 1.1 times Malawi's.

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

Malawi ranks 197th and Uganda ranks 195th 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.