China

Latest complete year: 2024 · population 1,410,000,000 · moderate air-pollution controls

Electricity mix

Estimated annual deaths from generation

138,000–1,240,000 per year

≈ one death for every 1,000–10,000 people's annual electricity.

This estimate is country-adjusted in two ways. Hydro uses the rate excluding the 1975 Banqiao Dam failure, which dominates the global figure but does not describe routine operation. Fossil rates are anchored to this country's pollution-controls tier: the high end of the global range reflects plants sited near dense population with limited emissions controls; the low end reflects European-standard controls. Which end is closer to China depends on its plant siting and regulation, which this coarse estimate does not model directly.

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