Australia vs Mexico: Electricity generation from low-carbon sources

Australia
110.58 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Mexico
92.59 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Australia rank
18th
Mexico rank
20th

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources over time

  • Australia
  • Mexico
20406080100120197119982025

How they compare

Australia currently reports 110.58 terawatt-hours against 92.59 terawatt-hours in Mexico, a difference of 17.99 terawatt-hours.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.2 times Mexico's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Mexico ahead.

Australia ranks 18th and Mexico ranks 20th 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

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.