Mozambique
MOZMozambique has about as many people as Saudi Arabia, and 23 times less electricity to share between them.
35 million people against 34 million, but 571 kWh per person a year against 13,386.
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 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.
Mozambique generates a surplus and sells it on.
What this means
The share of what this country generates that is sold abroad rather than used at home. A country can only export if it produces more than it needs, which usually means plentiful hydro, nuclear or wind.
Also true of Mozambique
Mozambique gets next to none of its electricity from oil, in a region built on it.
47% of grids in Africa draw more than a tenth of their power from oil.
Mozambique runs almost entirely on hydro.
82% of its electricity comes from one source.
Mozambique sends abroad the equivalent of 20% of what it uses.
A net exporter, on the year's balance.
Mozambique’s neighbours
ZambiaZambia's grid has been getting more carbon-heavy, not less.
ZimbabweHydro overtook coal on Zimbabwe's grid in 2017.
TanzaniaTanzania's grid has been getting dirtier, not cleaner.
MalawiMalawi has about as many people as Taiwan, and 148 times less electricity to share between them.
South AfricaSouth Africa is third in the world for coal.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Mozambique. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.