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Afghanistan generates no gas electricity at all, in a region built on it.

65% of grids in Asia draw more than a tenth of their power from gas.

Clean share
87%
in 2024
Total output
1.0TWh
a year
Per person
23kWh
a year
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Afghanistan · mix since 2000
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Afghanistan has about as many people as Canada, and 700 times less electricity to share between them. 43 million people against 40 million, but 23 kWh per person a year against 16,259.

What this grid depends on

Three measures that say more about a country than how much power it makes. Open “what this means” on any of them if the term is new.

Carbon intensity
131g CO₂e per kWh

Cleaner than 8 in 10 grids worldwide.

What this means

How much planet-warming gas is released to make one unit of electricity. Two countries can generate exactly the same amount and one of them be ten times dirtier doing it. Lower is better.

Electricity imported
85% of what it uses

Afghanistan depends heavily on its neighbours for power.

What this means

The share of the electricity used here that was generated abroad and carried in over high-voltage lines. The higher it climbs, the more this country relies on a neighbour to keep its lights on.

Also true of Afghanistan

Afghanistan brings in 85% of the electricity it uses.

Its own power stations cover the rest.

Afghanistan is close to the bottom in the world for electricity used per person.

23 kWh per person per year, 199th of 201.

Afghanistan's electricity is cleaner than the world average.

131 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 71% below.

Afghanistan’s neighbours

Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Afghanistan. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.