Myanmar
MMRMyanmar has about as many people as South Korea, and 30 times less electricity to share between them.
55 million people against 52 million, but 398 kWh per person a year against 12,090.
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.
Myanmar 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 Myanmar
Myanmar's electricity is about as carbon-heavy as the world's.
503 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour, against a world figure of 458.
Myanmar's grid has been getting dirtier, not cleaner.
Low-carbon electricity went from 63% to 48% in 10 years.
Myanmar uses far less electricity per person than countries at its income level.
402 kWh a year, against a median of 1,255 across the 18 lower-middle-income countries here.
Myanmar’s neighbours
LaosLaos generates no gas electricity at all, in a region built on it.
BangladeshCoal overtook oil on Bangladesh's grid in 2024.
ThailandThailand is third in Asia for bioenergy.
IndiaIndia is third in the world for how much electricity it makes.
ChinaChina is first in the world for how much electricity it makes.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Myanmar. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.