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electricity
  • Ember

    Monthly electricity generation by source and country (Ember)

    Monthly electricity generation, generation mix shares, CO2 emissions and emissions intensity by electricity source for around 230 countries and economies plus regional aggregates, from Ember's harmonized monthly electricity dataset (https://files.ember-energy.org/public-downloads/generation/outputs/release_generation_monthly_global.csv). Each row is one (month, area, electricity source): generation in TWh with year-on-year changes, share of that area's generation in percent, CO2 emissions in MtCO2e with year-on-year changes, share of emissions, and emissions intensity in gCO2e/kWh, alongside area metadata (ISO alpha-3 code, continent, Ember region, EU/OECD/G20/G7/ASEAN membership). Method: Ember harmonizes national statistics; sources flagged is_aggregated_source=True (Clean, Fossil, Renewables, Total generation, Wind and solar, 'Hydro, bioenergy and other renewables') are composites of the granular sources, and 'Demand'/'Net imports' are balance rows. Units: TWh for generation, MtCO2e for emissions, gCO2e/kWh for intensity, percent / percentage points for shares and changes. Caveats: YoY-change columns are empty for each series' first 12 months; regional aggregates have no iso3 code; the latest 1-2 months are provisional and routinely revised. Coverage: worldwide, 1998-12 to the present, monthly granularity. Provenance: Ember keyless public CSV, CC BY 4.0 - please cite Ember (ember-energy.org). Primary key: (month, area, electricity_source). Join keys: iso3 (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), month. Cadence: refreshed monthly; new months typically appear ~6 weeks after month-end. Sample use: filter area='Germany' and is_aggregated_source=False to track its generation mix over time.

    • energy
    • electricity
    • renewables
    • emissions
    rows
    178,200
    Quality
    99
    Updated
    Sep 23, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    Commercial use OK
  • Global Energy Transition Signals (derived)

    Global energy transition signals (clean-electricity momentum, decarbonization rates, anomalies)

    Value-added energy-transition signals derived from the free Our World in Data energy dataset (Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, CC-BY-4.0): annual low-carbon and fossil-fuel electricity shares plus electricity carbon intensity for every country with an ISO code, 2000 -> latest year. Each row carries 5-year transition momentum, the annualized decarbonization rate, 3-sigma anomaly flags vs a trailing-10y baseline, and a per-year cross-country transition rank. All computation is local pandas/numpy; no paid models or APIs.

    • energy
    • decarbonization
    • renewables
    • electricity
    rows
    16,083
    Quality
    98
    Updated
    Sep 22, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    Commercial use OK
  • UN SDG Global Database

    Proportion of population with access to electricity, by urban/rural (%)

    Proportion of population with access to electricity, by urban/rural (%) SDG indicator EG_ACS_ELEC (SDG goal 7). Source: UN SDG Global Database. Rows are geo-area x year x disaggregation dimensions (sex, age, location/urban-rural where published).

    • electricity
    • energy-access
    • sdg7
    rows
    18,240
    Quality
    97
    Updated
    Sep 21, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    No commercial use
  • WB Energy-Access Signals (derived)

    WB energy-access signals (electrification, clean cooking, power use)

    Annual energy-access signals from the World Bank API (~1990 -> latest, ~210 economies): electricity access, clean-cooking access and per-capita electric power consumption, with 10-year changes, OLS trend slopes, 3-sigma anomaly flags, 5-year extrapolation forecasts, and SDG 7 gauges: the remaining access gap, a universal-access flag (>=99%), 5-year electrification momentum, a clean-cooking laggard flag (<50%), and a 10-year consumption z-score. The energy-development lens — who has power and how fast access is advancing — the access companion to the electricity-mix lens in owid-energy-transition-signals. Raw indicators: World Bank.

    • energy
    • electricity
    • electrification
    • clean-cooking
    rows
    17,323
    Quality
    93
    Updated
    Sep 22, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    No commercial use
  • World Bank

    Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)

    Electric power consumption measures the production of power plants and combined heat and power plants less transmission, distribution, and transformation losses and own use by heat and power plants, divided by midyear population.

    • energy
    • electricity
    • climate
    • world-bank
    rows
    208
    Quality
    100
    Updated
    Sep 20, 2026
    Fresh
    License
    Commercial use OK