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Rwanda vs Zimbabwe: Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity

Rwanda
353.98 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Zimbabwe
384.02 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Rwanda rank
128th
Zimbabwe rank
126th

Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity over time

  • Rwanda
  • Zimbabwe
0200400600200020122024

How they compare

Zimbabwe currently reports 384.02 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour against 353.98 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour in Rwanda, a difference of 30.04 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour.

That makes Zimbabwe'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 Zimbabwe ahead.

Rwanda ranks 128th and Zimbabwe ranks 126th 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.