Benin
BENGas overtook oil on Benin's grid in 2019.
Today gas supplies 72% and oil 24%.
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.
Cleaner than 3 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.
Benin 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 Benin
Benin generates no hydro electricity at all, in a region built on it.
60% of grids in Africa draw more than a tenth of their power from hydro.
Benin has about as many people as Tunisia, and 26 times less electricity to share between them.
14.5 million people against 12.3 million, but 70 kWh per person a year against 1,807.
Benin's electricity is dirtier than the world average.
584 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 27% above.
Benin’s neighbours
NigerNiger has about as many people as Taiwan, and 355 times less electricity to share between them.
TogoTogo has about as many people as Israel, and 102 times less electricity to share between them.
Burkina FasoBurkina Faso has about as many people as Taiwan, and 174 times less electricity to share between them.
NigeriaNigeria has about as many people as Brazil, and 20 times less electricity to share between them.
GhanaGas overtook hydro on Ghana's grid in 2020.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Benin. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.