Renewable energy use

Share of final energy consumption that comes from renewable sources.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: International Energy Agency
years covered: 1990–2022
subject: Environment

Higher is generally taken as better.

How this is measured

Renewables as a share of all final energy consumption, not just electricity. The share is highest in the poorest countries, because burning wood and charcoal for cooking counts as renewable — so a rising figure in a rich country and a high figure in a poor one mean opposite things.

Ranked for 2021

169 countries and territories have a figure for 2021. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1990.

#	Country	Region	Renewables
1	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	96.3%
2	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	95.4%
3	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	93.2%
4	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	91.3%
5	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	91.0%
6	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	90.9%
7	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	90.6%
8	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	87.4%
9	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	83.6%
10	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	83.1%
11	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	83.0%
12	Iceland	Europe	82.4%
13	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	82.4%
14	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	81.8%
15	Eritrea	Sub-Saharan Africa	80.7%
16	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	80.3%
17	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	79.6%
18	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	79.4%
19	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	79.2%
20	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	78.3%
21	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	76.9%
22	Haiti	Americas	76.7%
23	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	75.1%
24	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	73.7%
25	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	71.4%
26	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	71.2%
27	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	71.2%
28	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	71.1%
29	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	71.1%
30	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	69.9%
31	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	67.7%
32	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	66.8%
33	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	65.4%
34	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	62.9%
35	Guatemala	Americas	62.1%
36	Norway	Europe	61.4%
37	Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	61.0%
38	Paraguay	Americas	58.8%
39	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	58.2%
40	Sweden	Europe	57.9%
41	Uruguay	Americas	57.8%
42	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	54.5%
43	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	54.5%
44	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	52.9%
45	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	52.4%
46	Laos	Asia-Pacific	51.5%
47	Nicaragua	Americas	50.4%
48	Finland	Europe	50.2%
49	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	49.1%
50	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	48.8%
51	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	48.6%
52	Brazil	Americas	46.5%
53	Honduras	Americas	45.9%
54	Latvia	Europe	44.0%
55	Albania	Europe	41.9%
56	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	41.6%
57	Montenegro	Europe	39.6%
58	Denmark	Europe	39.5%
59	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	39.0%
60	Estonia	Europe	38.0%
61	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	36.6%
62	Austria	Europe	36.0%
63	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.4%
64	India	Asia-Pacific	34.9%
65	Tajikistan	Eurasia	34.9%
66	Costa Rica	Americas	34.2%
67	Croatia	Europe	34.1%
68	Venezuela	Americas	33.7%
69	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	33.6%
70	Lithuania	Europe	33.2%
71	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	32.4%
72	Portugal	Europe	32.3%
73	Peru	Americas	30.6%
74	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	30.0%
75	Colombia	Americas	29.7%
76	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	29.7%
77	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	28.9%
78	Panama	Americas	28.0%
79	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	28.0%
80	Switzerland	Europe	27.7%
81	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	27.6%
82	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	27.4%
83	Serbia	Europe	27.2%
84	Belize	Americas	26.6%
85	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	26.6%
86	Georgia	Eurasia	25.2%
87	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	25.0%
88	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	24.6%
89	Chile	Americas	24.2%
90	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	24.2%
91	Canada	Americas	23.8%
92	Romania	Europe	23.6%
93	Slovenia	Europe	23.4%
94	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	22.1%
95	El Salvador	Americas	21.9%
96	Greece	Europe	21.5%
97	Moldova	Eurasia	21.4%
98	Cuba	Americas	20.9%
99	Luxembourg	Europe	20.5%
100	Bulgaria	Europe	20.4%
101	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	20.2%
102	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	20.0%
103	North Macedonia	Europe	19.5%
104	Spain	Europe	19.0%
105	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	19.0%
106	Ecuador	Americas	18.9%
107	Slovakia	Europe	17.9%
108	Germany	Europe	17.6%
109	Italy	Europe	17.5%
110	Czechia	Europe	17.2%
111	France	Europe	16.2%
112	Cyprus	Europe	15.6%
113	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	15.4%
114	Hungary	Europe	15.3%
115	China	Asia-Pacific	15.2%
116	Poland	Europe	15.2%
117	Dominican Republic	Americas	14.8%
118	North Korea	Asia-Pacific	14.7%
119	Suriname	Americas	14.5%
120	Guyana	Americas	13.2%
121	Mexico	Americas	13.0%
122	Bolivia	Americas	12.8%
123	Ireland	Europe	12.7%
124	Australia	Asia-Pacific	12.3%
125	United Kingdom	Europe	12.2%
126	Netherlands	Europe	12.2%
127	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	12.1%
128	Turkey	Eurasia	12.0%
129	Belgium	Europe	11.7%
130	Greenland	Americas	11.6%
131	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	11.6%
132	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	11.5%
133	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	10.9%
134	United States	Americas	10.9%
135	Jamaica	Americas	10.5%
136	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	9.7%
137	Argentina	Americas	9.2%
138	Armenia	Eurasia	9.1%
139	Ukraine	Eurasia	8.9%
140	Japan	Asia-Pacific	8.8%
141	New Caledonia	Asia-Pacific	8.3%
142	Belarus	Eurasia	8.2%
143	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	7.5%
144	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	6.8%
145	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	6.2%
146	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	6.1%
147	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	5.2%
148	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	3.7%
149	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	3.6%
150	Russia	Eurasia	3.5%
151	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	3.1%
152	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	3.0%
153	Puerto Rico	Americas	2.6%
154	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	2.0%
155	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	1.3%
156	Bahamas	Americas	1.1%
157	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	1.1%
158	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	1.1%
159	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	1.0%
160	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	1.0%
161	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	0.9%
162	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	0.5%
163	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	0.1%
164	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	0.1%
165	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	0.1%
166	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	0.1%
167	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	0.1%
168	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	0.0%
169	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	0.0%

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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