Brazil vs OECD (EI): Electricity generation from low-carbon sources

Brazil
665.84 terawatt-hours
in 2025
OECD (EI)
6,007 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Brazil rank
3rd
OECD (EI) rank
1st

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources over time

  • Brazil
  • OECD (EI)
02.0k4.0k6.0k196519952025

How they compare

OECD (EI) currently reports 6,007 terawatt-hours against 665.84 terawatt-hours in Brazil, a difference of 5,341 terawatt-hours.

That makes OECD (EI)'s figure about 9.0 times Brazil's.

Across all 36 years both countries report, OECD (EI) has been ahead every year.

Brazil ranks 3rd and OECD (EI) ranks 1st 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.