Sudan
SDNSudan has about as many people as South Korea, and 41 times less electricity to share between them.
50 million people against 52 million, but 293 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 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.
Sudan 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.
Also true of Sudan
Hydro overtook oil on Sudan's grid in 2010.
Today hydro supplies 78% and oil 20%.
Sudan has cleaned up its grid faster than most people realise.
Low-carbon electricity went from 64% to 80% in 5 years.
Sudan’s neighbours
EthiopiaEthiopia runs almost entirely on hydro.
LibyaLibya generates no hydro electricity at all, in a region built on it.
EgyptEgypt is first in Africa for how much electricity it makes.
South SudanSouth Sudan runs almost entirely on oil.
EritreaEritrea has about as many people as Qatar, and 142 times less electricity to share between them.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Sudan. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.