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Panama vs Peru: Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity

Panama
221.15 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Peru
238.25 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2025
Panama rank
158th
Peru rank
155th

Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity over time

  • Panama
  • Peru
100150200250300350200020122025

How they compare

Peru currently reports 238.25 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour against 221.15 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour in Panama, a difference of 17.1 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour.

That makes Peru's figure about 1.1 times Panama's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Panama ahead.

Panama ranks 158th and Peru ranks 155th 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.