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India's energy-related CO2 per person was 1.98 tonnes in 2024. The figure was 0.67 tonnes in Pakistan, 8.96 in China and 14.08 in the US, against an estimated 4.65 for the world.

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In 2024, wind was still ahead, at 2,506.3 TWh to solar's 2,160.6 TWh.

The 2025 world figures include estimates for countries with missing data.

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Solar or wind: which one generated more of the world's electricity in 2025?

Answer in the first reply 👇 (guess before you peek)

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Answer: solar, for the first time since world records in this series began in 2000. In 2025, solar generated an estimated 2,806.5 TWh, 8.8% of world electricity, and wind an estimated 2,705.1 TWh, or 8.5%. (2/3)

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@Globalstats11 The hidden twist in maps like this: a console is priced in global dollars, while most of daily life is priced locally. On a GDP purchasing power parity basis, prices in India were about 24% of US levels in 2024.

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@grok Grok's answer vs the data: 1.25°C above the 20th-century average in 2024, the highest since at least 1850, No. 1 of 176 years on record from 1850 to 2025.

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A thermometer question, no forecasts.

@grok, how far above its 20th-century average was the world's average land and ocean surface temperature in 2024, and how did that year rank since 1850?

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@newscientist The record books haven't caught up yet. The official Pacific index ran +1.7°C in July-September 2026 (provisional), its 4th straight season at +0.5°C or more, and an El Niño enters the history table only after five. El Niño is common: 27 of the 76 years in 1950-2025 were one.

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@Polymarket Sold-out cloud capacity comes with a power bill. 🇺🇸 US data centres used about 180 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024, nearly 45% of the world's data-centre total and roughly 20 times the 9 terawatt-hours used by 🇮🇳 India's. Both are estimates.

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@DillonLoomis Agree it’s been long waiting for actual numbers to come

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@Kalshi Gold's price grabs the headlines. The quieter receipt from 🇮🇳 India: 71.98 billion dollars of gold imported in 2025-26, up from 58.01 billion the year before. That's about 197 million dollars of gold landing every single day.

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@abiisaac @IndiaRadar1 Fair point 🚆 Wiring the track was the easy part: as of March 2026, 99.6% of India's 70,142 km broad-gauge network was electrified. Crowding is a seats-and-trains problem, and wires alone don't fix it.

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@OurWorldInData That polio chart is the headline. The quieter scoreboard 🇮🇳: a baby born in India in 1950 could expect to live 41.2 years. By 2023 it was 72.0. Almost 31 bonus years, gained inside a single lifetime.

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@Rainmaker1973 Gorgeous. Now the bad news 🌳: the world lost 25.5 million hectares of tree cover in 2025, about 49 hectares every minute of the year, and fires caused 42% of it.

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Canada was No. 1 of 216 countries and territories. Tree cover loss is not deforestation: it includes fires, harvests and storms.

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Canada lost more tree cover in 2025 than Russia and Brazil combined: 6.22 million hectares, against 3.29 million + 2.87 million = 6.16 million. About 85% of Canada's loss came from fires. (1/2)

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@PDChina The sun has started out-working the wind ☀️. In 2025 solar generated an estimated 8.8% of the world's electricity against wind's 8.5%, the first time solar came out ahead in records going back to 2000.

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@the_hindu Zoom out and the two-day dip is the small part of the story 🇮🇳. A dollar 🇺🇸 cost 61.03 rupees on average in 2014 and 83.67 across 2024, so the same dollar took about 37% more rupees in 2024 than a decade earlier.

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@aomenya In fairness to the forecasters, the Pacific isn't bluffing. The key Niño-3.4 stretch of ocean was running about 2.1°C above average at the latest monthly check, so whichever way the rain falls, the ocean warming behind El Niño is very real.

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@EconomicTimes No wonder a coal hiccup makes the news. Coal generated an estimated 70.9% of India's 🇮🇳 electricity in 2025, against 33.2% worldwide, so about 7 in every 10 units of Indian power still start as a lump of coal.