Pakistan
PAKSolar overtook coal on Pakistan's grid in 2025.
Today solar supplies 19% and coal 15%.
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 6 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.
Pakistan 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.
A mix of fuel produced at home and fuel bought in.
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 Pakistan
Pakistan is third in Asia for solar.
Solar supplies 19% of its electricity.
Pakistan's electricity is cleaner than the world average.
347 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 24% below.
Solar overtook nuclear on Pakistan's grid in 2025.
Today solar supplies 19% and nuclear 12%.
Pakistan’s neighbours
IranIran gets next to none of its electricity from coal, in a region built on it.
IndiaIndia is third in the world for how much electricity it makes.
ChinaChina is first in the world for how much electricity it makes.
AfghanistanAfghanistan generates no gas electricity at all, in a region built on it.
TajikistanTajikistan gets next to none of its electricity from gas, in a region built on it.
Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for Pakistan. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.