Bangladesh
BGDCoal overtook oil on Bangladesh's grid in 2024.
Today coal supplies 22% and oil 12%.
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.
Among the most carbon-heavy electricity anywhere.
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.
Bangladesh buys in more electricity than it sends out.
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.
More of its fuel is bought in than produced at home.
What this means
How much of what this grid runs on the country can supply itself. Sun, wind and water count fully, because nobody can cut them off; coal, gas and oil only as far as the country digs them up. A high score is not the same as a good grid: mining your own coal scores well, importing uranium scores badly.
Also true of Bangladesh
Bangladesh gets next to none of its electricity from hydro, in a region built on it.
41% of grids in Asia draw more than a tenth of their power from hydro.
Bangladesh’s neighbours
MyanmarMyanmar has about as many people as South Korea, and 30 times less electricity to share between them.
IndiaIndia is third in the world for how much electricity it makes.
BhutanBhutan runs one of the cleanest grids in the world.
NepalNepal runs almost entirely on hydro.
LaosLaos generates no gas electricity at all, in a region built on it.
Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for Bangladesh. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.