Botswana vs India: Share of electricity generation from coal

Botswana
98.3%
in 2024
India
70.8%
in 2025
Botswana rank
1st
India rank
4th

Share of electricity generation from coal over time

  • Botswana
  • India
020406080100198520052025

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 98.3% against 70.8% in India, a difference of 27.4%.

That makes Botswana's figure about 1.4 times India's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 1st and India ranks 4th of 210 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Share of electricity generation from coal
Unit
%
Source
Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
212 places, 6,128 data points, 1920–2025
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Measured as a percentage of total electricity produced in the country or region.