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Uganda vs Uruguay: Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity

Uganda
58.52 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Uruguay
80.4 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour
in 2025
Uganda rank
195th
Uruguay rank
193rd

Lifecycle carbon intensity of electricity over time

  • Uganda
  • Uruguay
0100200300200020122025

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 80.4 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour against 58.52 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour in Uganda, a difference of 21.88 grams of CO₂ equivalents per kilowatt-hour.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.4 times Uganda's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Uruguay ahead.

Uganda ranks 195th and Uruguay ranks 193rd 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.