Country Electricity Carbon Intensity, Emissions & Generation
Clean per-country yearly electricity carbon intensity (gCO2/kWh), power-sector CO2 emissions (mtCO2) and total generation (TWh) for ~215 countries, 2000-present. Tidy, analysis-ready long format from Ember's bulk release - no parsing the 49 MB taxonomy file.
- Source
- Ember
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Annual
- Data through
- 2025-01-01
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- ~215 countries, yearly 2000-present
- 3 headline metrics: carbon intensity, power-sector emissions, total generation
- Real countries only (Ember region aggregates dropped)
- Source: Ember - Yearly Electricity Data (CC-BY-4.0)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Country name | 100.0% | 214 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Report year | 100.0% | 26 |
| metric | str | CO2 intensity / Power-sector emissions / Total generation | 100.0% | 3 |
| value | float | Metric value in its unit | 100.0% | 8,338 |
| unit | str | gCO2/kWh, mtCO2, or TWh | 100.0% | 3 |
| res_min | int | Native resolution (annual) | 100.0% | 1 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: Ember (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("country-electricity-carbon-intensity_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 214 zones
Afghanistan · Algeria · American Samoa · Angola · Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Armenia · Aruba · Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Bahamas (the) · Bahrain · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belarus · Belgium · Belize · Benin · Bermuda · Bhutan · Bolivia · Bosnia Herzegovina · Botswana · Brazil · Brunei Darussalam · Bulgaria · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cabo Verde · Cambodia · Cameroon · Canada · Cayman Islands (the) · Central African Republic (the) · Chad · Chile · China · Colombia · Comoros (the) · Congo (the Democratic Republic of the) · Congo (the) · Cook Islands (the) · Costa Rica · Cote d'Ivoire · Croatia · Cuba · Cyprus · Czechia · Denmark · Djibouti · Dominica · Dominican Republic (the) · Ecuador · Egypt · El Salvador · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Estonia · Eswatini · Ethiopia · Falkland Islands (the) [Malvinas] · Faroe Islands (the) · Fiji · Finland · France · French Guiana · French Polynesia · Gabon · Gambia (the) · Georgia · Germany · Ghana · Gibraltar · Greece · Greenland · Grenada · Guadeloupe · Guam · Guatemala · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Guyana · Haiti · Honduras · Hong Kong · Hungary · Iceland · India · Indonesia · Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Iraq · Ireland · Israel · Italy · Jamaica · Japan · Jordan · Kazakhstan · Kenya · Kiribati · Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of) · Kosovo · Kuwait · Kyrgyzstan · Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) · Latvia · Lebanon · Lesotho · Liberia · Libya · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Macao · Madagascar · Malawi · Malaysia · Maldives · Mali · Malta · Martinique · Mauritania · Mauritius · Mexico · Moldova · Mongolia · Montenegro · Montserrat · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Namibia · Nauru · Nepal · Netherlands · New Caledonia · New Zealand · Nicaragua · Niger (the) · Nigeria · Niue · North Macedonia · Norway · Oman · Pakistan · Palestine, State of · Panama · Papua New Guinea · Paraguay · Peru · Philippines (the) · Poland · Portugal · Puerto Rico · Qatar · Reunion · Romania · Russian Federation (the) · Rwanda · Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Samoa · Sao Tome and Principe · Saudi Arabia · Senegal · Serbia · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Singapore · Slovakia · Slovenia · Solomon Islands · Somalia · South Africa · South Korea · South Sudan · Spain · Sri Lanka · Sudan (the) · Suriname · Sweden · Switzerland · Syrian Arab Republic (the) · Taiwan · Tajikistan · Tanzania, the United Republic of · Thailand · Timor-Leste · Togo · Tonga · Trinidad and Tobago · Tunisia · Turkey · Turkmenistan · Turks and Caicos Islands (the) · Uganda · Ukraine · United Arab Emirates · United Kingdom · United States of America · Uruguay · Uzbekistan · Vanuatu · Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Viet Nam · Virgin Islands (British) · Virgin Islands (U.S.) · Western Sahara · Yemen · Zambia · Zimbabwe
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