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Puerto Rico
The latest open data on emissions, energy and forests, compared with ten years earlier and with the world average.
6% of electricity comes from renewables and nuclear (2024).
From 2001 to 2025, trees disappeared from 77,779 hectares: 14.9% of the area that was tree-covered in 2000.
All indicators
Latest available value, ten-year change (green if it moves in the direction that lightens the load on the planet, red if the opposite) and the world average in the same year.
| Indicator | Latest value | In 10 years | World | Since 1990 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate | ||||
| Energy | ||||
| Primary energy per personkWh of energy per person per year | 25,2882023 | −1,866 | 21,286 | |
| Electricity | ||||
| Renewable share of electricity% | 6.02024 | +4.3 | 31.9 | |
| Low-carbon electricity (renewables and nuclear)% | 6.02024 | +4.3 | 40.9 | |
| Solar share of electricity% | 4.82024 | +4.6 | 6.9 | |
| Wind share of electricity% | 0.92024 | −0.1 | 8.1 | |
| Coal share of electricity% | 16.02024 | −1.4 | 34.1 | |
| Carbon intensity of electricitygrams of CO₂ equivalent per kWh of electricity | 6562024 | −31 | 471 | |
| Green | ||||
Trees and forests
Hectares where trees were cut or burned each year (areas with at least 30% canopy), from 2001 to 2025.
On average, from 2001 to 2025, the country's forests removed 2.5 million tonnes of CO₂ from the air each year and released 1.8 through logging and fires.
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Sources: Global Carbon Project, Energy Institute and Ember (via Our World in Data), FAO (via the World Bank), Global Forest Watch (University of Maryland and World Resources Institute). Details on the data page. Data