Ethiopia: all its electricity is made without coal, gas or oil, but there is 18 times less of it per person than in a typical country
In 2023 the country used 124 kWh per person, counting factories and transport; the typical country used about 2,240 kWh (half of 159 countries use more, half less). Its own plants produce all the electricity it uses.
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A clean power system can simply be a very small one: hydro or other low-carbon plants cover what little electricity there is.
The bars compare electricity used per person in a year: this country and the median of all countries with at least a million people.
- Low-carbon share of electricity % of generation
100 (2023)
- Electricity demand per person kWh per person a year
124.25 (2023)
- Electricity generation TWh per year
17.77 (2023)
Latest year up to 2023 with all series (2023). Selected: low-carbon share of own generation at least 80%, use under 1,000 kWh per person, GDP per person under $8,000, and own generation covering at least 80% of use, so imports from fossil-fuel neighbours cannot hide behind the share. The typical country is the median of 159 countries in the same year.
Median of 159 countries in 2023: 2,236 kWh per person, from the same Ember series. Use per person is all the country’s electricity, industry included, divided by residents; it does not show who has a connection at home.
A question for this picture
How do we tell a clean-energy achievement from the cleanliness of a very small power system?