Brazil vs Canada: Electricity generation from low-carbon sources

Brazil
665.84 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Canada
502.23 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Brazil rank
3rd
Canada rank
6th

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources over time

  • Brazil
  • Canada
200300400500600700199020072025

How they compare

Brazil currently reports 665.84 terawatt-hours against 502.23 terawatt-hours in Canada, a difference of 163.61 terawatt-hours.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.3 times Canada's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Canada ahead.

Brazil ranks 3rd and Canada ranks 6th 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.