Argentina vs Chile: Electricity generation from low-carbon sources

Argentina

63.72 terawatt-hours

in 2025

Chile

58.74 terawatt-hours

in 2025

Argentina rank

27th

Chile rank

30th

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources over time

Argentina
Chile

How they compare

Argentina currently reports 63.72 terawatt-hours against 58.74 terawatt-hours in Chile, a difference of 4.98 terawatt-hours.

That makes Argentina's figure about 1.1 times Chile's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Argentina ahead.

Argentina ranks 27th and Chile ranks 30th of 209 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Electricity generation from low-carbon sources
Unit: terawatt-hours
Source: Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 216 places, 7,081 data points, 1920–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured in terawatt-hours. Low-carbon sources correspond to renewables and nuclear power, that produce significantly less greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuels. Renewables include solar, wind, hydropower, bioenergy, geothermal, wave, and tidal.