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Rwanda vs Samoa: Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity

Rwanda
353.98 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Samoa
375 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Rwanda rank
128th
Samoa rank
127th

Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity over time

  • Rwanda
  • Samoa
0200400600200020122024

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 375 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour against 353.98 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour in Rwanda, a difference of 21.02 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour.

That makes Samoa's figure about 1.1 times Rwanda's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Samoa ahead.

Rwanda ranks 128th and Samoa ranks 127th 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.