Kenya vs Uruguay: Electricity generation from low-carbon sources

Kenya
12.64 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Uruguay
11.68 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Kenya rank
68th
Uruguay rank
71st

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources over time

  • Kenya
  • Uruguay
051015200020122025

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 12.64 terawatt-hours against 11.68 terawatt-hours in Uruguay, a difference of 0.96 terawatt-hours.

That makes Kenya's figure about 1.1 times Uruguay's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 26 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Uruguay ahead.

Kenya ranks 68th and Uruguay ranks 71st 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.