Burma Energy - 2024

Electricity access

population without electricity: 26 million (2020)

electrification - total population: 72.4% (2021)

electrification - urban areas: 93.6% (2021)

electrification - rural areas: 62.7% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 7.247 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 20,474,380,000 kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 1.002 billion kWh (2019 est.)

imports: 0 kWh (2019 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 3.405 billion kWh (2019 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 52.6% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 0.1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 47.3% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal

production: 1.468 million metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 1.981 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 1,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 514,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 6 million metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 7,800 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 146,200 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 4,700 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 0 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 139 million barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

13,330 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

0 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

102,600 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 17,710,912,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 3,612,431,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 14,188,161,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

imports: 475.156 million cubic meters (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 637.128 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

31.848 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 3.881 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 20.832 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 7.134 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

10.679 million Btu/person (2019 est.)