Brazil vs Mexico: Share of electricity generation from nuclear

Brazil
2.1%
in 2025
Mexico
2.8%
in 2025
Brazil rank
30th
Mexico rank
28th

Share of electricity generation from nuclear over time

  • Brazil
  • Mexico
0246198520052025

How they compare

Mexico currently reports 2.8% against 2.1% in Brazil, a difference of 0.7%.

That makes Mexico's figure about 1.3 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 41 shared years of data; in 1985 it was Brazil ahead.

Brazil ranks 30th and Mexico ranks 28th of 207 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Share of electricity generation from nuclear
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
209 places, 6,536 data points, 1920–2025
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Measured as a percentage of total electricity produced in the country or region.