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Renewable share of electricity generation by country 2024

159 countries ranked by renewable share of electricity generation for 2024, the latest period that most reporting countries share. Built from the Renewable share of electricity generation indicator; every row links to its record.

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How this ranking is built. Indicator: Renewable share of electricity generation · Topic: Electricity generation · Industry: Electricity and Gas Utilities · Period: 2024. Only verified actual figures for that one period are ranked, so every row is comparable; forecasts are not ranked, and world or regional totals are shown as reference, not ranked. 42 other countries have data only for other periods and are omitted.

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Renewable share of electricity generation by country

2024 · 12 highest of 159 countries

Renewable share of electricity generation by countrySelected latest values by region. Periods are labelled individually. Bars start at zero; source records and value types are in the table below.Bhutan · 2024100%Democratic Republic of the Congo · 2024100%Ethiopia · 2024100%Iceland · 2024100%Nepal · 2024100%Paraguay · 2024100%Costa Rica · 202499.9%Uruguay · 202498.9%Namibia · 202497.6%Uganda · 202497.1%Eswatini · 202496.7%Malawi · 202495.6%
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Renewable share of electricity generation by country
RegionPeriodSourceTypeValue
Bhutan2024EmberActual100%
Democratic Republic of the Congo2024EmberActual100%
Ethiopia2024EmberActual100%
Iceland2024EmberActual100%
Nepal2024EmberActual100%
Paraguay2024EmberActual100%
Costa Rica2024EmberActual99.9%
Uruguay2024EmberActual98.9%
Namibia2024EmberActual97.6%
Uganda2024EmberActual97.1%
Eswatini2024EmberActual96.7%
Malawi2024EmberActual95.6%
Source: Ember · percent · CC BY 4.0 · statorigin.org

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Rank · country · value · change on the same period a year earlier · source. Values in %.

Ranks 1–50 of 159 countries. Page 1 of 4.

# Country Value YoY Period Source
1 Bhutan BT 100% +0.0% 2024 Ember
2 Democratic Republic of the Congo CD 100% +0.0% 2024 Ember
3 Ethiopia ET 100% -0.0% 2024 Ember
4 Iceland IS 100% +0.0% 2024 Ember
5 Nepal NP 100% — 2024 Ember
6 Paraguay PY 100% +0.0% 2024 Ember
7 Costa Rica CR 99.9% +0.0% 2024 Ember
8 Uruguay UY 98.9% — 2024 Ember
9 Namibia NA 97.6% — 2024 Ember
10 Uganda UG 97.1% +0.0% 2024 Ember
11 Eswatini SZ 96.7% -0.3% 2024 Ember
12 Malawi MW 95.6% — 2024 Ember
13 Sierra Leone SL 95.2% +0.0% 2024 Ember
14 Kenya KE 91.5% +1.9% 2024 Ember
15 El Salvador SV 90.8% +3.4% 2024 Ember
16 Luxembourg LU 90.7% +1.5% 2024 Ember
17 Denmark DK 89.3% — 2024 Ember
18 Kyrgyzstan KG 88.8% +2.7% 2024 Ember
19 Zambia ZM 87.5% -1.7% 2024 Ember
20 Brazil BR 87.3% — 2024 Ember
21 Belize BZ 87.2% -1.9% 2024 Ember
22 Afghanistan AF 86.9% +0.3% 2024 Ember
23 Austria AT 86.2% +1.7% 2024 Ember
24 New Zealand NZ 86% — 2024 Ember
25 Portugal PT 85.2% +14.4% 2024 Ember
26 Lithuania LT 84.3% +0.6% 2024 Ember
27 Mozambique MZ 83.4% -0.2% 2024 Ember
28 Greenland GL 83.3% +1.7% 2024 Ember
29 Sudan SD 79.7% -1.6% 2024 Ember
30 Laos LA 76.7% +0.0% 2024 Ember
31 Burundi BI 75.5% — 2024 Ember
32 Guinea GN 75.2% +0.9% 2024 Ember
33 Angola AO 73.7% -0.5% 2024 Ember
34 Latvia LV 73.5% -5.5% 2024 Ember
35 Cameroon CM 73.1% -0.2% 2024 Ember
36 Ecuador EC 72.4% — 2024 Ember
37 Sweden SE 69.4% -0.1% 2024 Ember
38 Panama PA 68% +12.1% 2024 Ember
39 Switzerland CH 67.5% +6.8% 2024 Ember
40 Canada CA 64.3% — 2024 Ember
41 Fiji FJ 63.5% +0.0% 2024 Ember
42 North Korea KP 63.4% +1.1% 2024 Ember
43 Nicaragua NI 62.4% +0.0% 2024 Ember
44 Colombia CO 61.4% — 2024 Ember
45 Peru PE 60.1% +10.5% 2024 Ember
46 Montenegro ME 59.5% -2.3% 2024 Ember
47 Germany DE 58.6% — 2024 Ember
48 Spain ES 57.3% +11.3% 2024 Ember
49 Zimbabwe ZW 57.1% +1.7% 2024 Ember
50 Finland FI 55.9% +7.7% 2024 Ember

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