Yemen
YEMYemen has about as many people as Canada, and 126 times less electricity to share between them.
41 million people against 40 million, but 129 kWh per person a year against 16,259.
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 3 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.
Yemen 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 Yemen
Yemen generates no coal electricity at all, in a region built on it.
45% of grids in Asia draw more than a tenth of their power from coal.
Yemen's electricity is dirtier than the world average.
592 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour against a world figure of 458 — 29% above.
Yemen is third in Asia for oil.
Oil supplies 88% of its electricity.
Yemen’s neighbours
OmanOman runs almost entirely on gas.
Saudi ArabiaGas overtook oil on Saudi Arabia's grid in 2016.
DjiboutiDjibouti is among the world's biggest wind and solar producers and still burns fossil fuels for most of its power.
EritreaEritrea has about as many people as Qatar, and 142 times less electricity to share between them.
SomaliaSomalia is among the world's biggest wind and solar producers and still burns fossil fuels for most of its power.
Figures are for 2024, the most recent year reported for Yemen. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.