Haiti
HTIHaiti has about as many people as the United Arab Emirates, and 220 times less electricity to share between them.
11.8 million people against 11 million, but 73 kWh per person a year against 16,075.
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 4 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.
Haiti generates almost exactly what it uses, with next to nothing crossing its borders.
What this means
Electricity can be sold across a border like anything else, through high-voltage lines connecting one country's grid to the next. Buying it in means leaning on a neighbour to keep the lights on. Selling it means generating more than the country needs.
Also true of Haiti
Haiti uses less electricity per person than any other country in Latin America and the Caribbean.
73 kWh per person per year, 42th of 42.
Haiti's electricity is dirtier than the world average.
535 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 17% above.
Haiti runs almost entirely on oil.
81% of its electricity comes from one source.
Haiti’s neighbours
Dominican RepublicCoal overtook gas on Dominican Republic's grid in 2022.
JamaicaGas overtook oil on Jamaica's grid in 2020.
Puerto RicoOil overtook gas on Puerto Rico's grid in 2020.
BahamasThe Bahamas runs almost entirely on oil.
CubaCuba gets next to none of its electricity from hydro, in a region built on it.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Haiti. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.