Kenya vs Nigeria: Electricity generation from low-carbon sources

Kenya
12.64 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Nigeria
13.01 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Kenya rank
68th
Nigeria rank
66th

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources over time

  • Kenya
  • Nigeria
2.557.51012.5200020122025

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 13.01 terawatt-hours against 12.64 terawatt-hours in Kenya, a difference of 0.37 terawatt-hours.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 26 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Nigeria ahead.

Kenya ranks 68th and Nigeria ranks 66th 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.