Trinidad and Tobago accounted for the largest per capita electricity consumption in 2022 among the Latin American and Caribbean countries. The figure amounted to 5.6 megawatt-hours per inhabitant, double the electricity consumption in Brazil and in Argentina. The average per person electricity consumption in the region was at 2.2 megawatt-hours that year.
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