List of countries by renewable electricity production

This is a list of countries and dependencies by electricity generation from renewable sources each year.

Renewables accounted for 28% of electric generation in 2021, consisting of hydro (55%), wind (23%), biomass (13%), solar (7%) and geothermal (1%). China produced 31% of global renewable electricity, followed by the United States (11%), Brazil (6.4%), Canada (5.4%) and India (3.9%).[1]

Renewable investment reached almost $500 billion globally in 2022,[2] amounting to 83% of new electric capacity that year.[3] The renewable energy industry employs almost 14 million people.[4]

List

Data are from IRENA unless otherwise specified, and are for the year 2021.[1]

Country / dependency %
ren. 		Ren.
gen.
(GWh) 		%
hydro 		%
wind 		%
solar 		%
bio. 		%
geo.
   Nepal 100% 11,000 98.7% 0% 1.2% 0.1% 0%
 Ethiopia 100% 15,817 94.5% 5.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0%
 Bhutan 100% 10,823 100% 0% 0% 0% 0%
 Albania 100% 8,963 99.5% 0% 0.5% 0% 0%
 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 100% 0.8 98.7% 1.3% 0% 0% 0%
 Paraguay 100% 40,848 99.3% 0% 0% 0.7% 0%
 Iceland 100% 19,617 70.4% 0.03% 0.03% 0% 29.6%
 Costa Rica 100% 12,656 73.4% 12.4% 0.8% 0.7% 12.7%
 Lesotho 99.8% 532 99.6% 0% 0.1% 0% 0%
 Eswatini 99.8% 460 56.1% 0% 0.3% 43.4% 0%
 Norway 99.1% 156,507 91.4% 7.5% 0.1% 0.02% 0%
 DR Congo 99.0% 11,921 98.8% 0% 0.2% 0.1% 0%
 Uganda 97.8% 4,749 88.2% 0% 2.9% 6.8% 0%
 Central African Republic 96.5% 142 96.2% 0% 0.3% 0% 0%
 Andorra 93.3% 97 75.9% 0% 1.2% 0% 0%
 Belize 92.9% 437 33.4% 0.01% 2.1% 57.4% 0%
 Tajikistan 92.8% 19,348 92.8% 0% 0% 0% 0%
 Zambia 92.0% 16,310 90.7% 0% 0.9% 0.4% 0%
 Tokelau 91.7% 1.2 0% 0% 91.7% 0% 0%
 Namibia 90.7% 1,333 59.5% 1.5% 29.7% 0.01% 0%
 Luxembourg 89.0% 1,968 49.1% 14.2% 8.1% 15.7% 0%
 Guinea 88.1% 2,667 87.4% 0% 0.7% 0% 0%
 Kenya 88.1% 9,663 34.5% 0.8% 3.9% 1.8% 47.3%
 El Salvador 86.0% 6,063 25.9% 1.9% 23.3% 12.8% 22.1%
 Kyrgyzstan 85.6% 12,957 85.6% 0% 0% 0% 0%
 Uruguay 84.5% 13,492 33.0% 31.3% 3.0% 17.2% 0%
 Mozambique 84.5% 15,603 83.8% 0% 0.4% 0.3% 0%
 Venezuela 84.2% 62,614 84.1% 0.1% 0.01% 0% 0%
 Panama 81.7% 9,597 69.4% 4.5% 5.6% 2.2% 0%
 New Zealand 81.4% 36,329 54.3% 5.9% 0.5% 1.8% 18.9%
 Georgia 81.2% 10,289 80.4% 0.7% 0.2% 0% 0%
 Ecuador 81.0% 26,077 79.4% 0.2% 0.1% 1.3% 0%
 Malawi 80.1% 1,869 72.5% 0% 5.5% 2.1% 0%
 Austria 79.9% 56,542 60.1% 9.5% 3.9% 5.8% 0%
 Cameroon 79.3% 5,110 79.0% 0% 0.3% 0% 0%
 Denmark 79.0% 26,096 0.05% 48.6% 4.0% 23.4% 0%
 Afghanistan 78.2% 927 71.7% 0.01% 6.6% 0% 0%
 Brazil 77.4% 507,667 55.3% 11.0% 2.6% 8.5% 0%
 Greenland 77.0% 447 74.5% 0.01% 0.1% 0% 0%
 Colombia 75.4% 63,145 72.5% 0.1% 0.6% 2.2% 0%
 Sierra Leone 75.3% 244 70.5% 0% 1.9% 2.9% 0%
 Angola 73.7% 14,004 72.6% 0% 0.01% 1.1% 0%
 Guatemala 73.3% 9,393 46.5% 2.5% 1.9% 20.3% 2.1%
 Zimbabwe 71.3% 6,217 68.9% 0% 0.7% 1.6% 0%
 Croatia 69.9% 10,629 47.5% 13.6% 1.0% 7.2% 0.6%
 Laos 69.3% 28,427 69.1% 0% 0.1% 0.1% 0%
 Nicaragua 69.3% 2,928 14.2% 15.5% 0.6% 21.6% 17.4%
 French Guiana 69.1% 688 58.8% 0% 5.7% 4.6% 0%
  Switzerland 68.1% 44,949 60.4% 0.2% 4.3% 1.5% 0%
 Canada 67.5% 433,791 59.5% 5.4% 0.9% 1.5% 0%
 Sweden 67.4% 115,778 43.0% 15.9% 0.9% 6.6% 0%
 Lithuania 65.6% 3,332 21.5% 26.8% 3.8% 10.7% 0%
 Portugal 64.9% 33,089 26.4% 25.9% 4.4% 7.2% 0.4%
 Latvia 63.6% 3,718 46.3% 2.4% 0.1% 14.7% 0%
 North Korea 63.2% 16,168 63.0% 0% 0.3% 0% 0%
 Honduras 62.8% 7,186 33.0% 6.8% 9.5% 10.5% 3.0%
 Mali 62.3% 1,875 56.6% 0% 3.1% 2.6% 0%
 Montenegro 61.8% 2,333 53.2% 8.5% 0.1% 0% 0%
 Peru 61.7% 35,203 55.9% 3.2% 1.5% 1.0% 0%
 Burundi 61.3% 278 59.6% 0% 0.5% 1.2% 0%
 Sudan 60.8% 10,195 60.0% 0% 0.2% 0.6% 0%
 Fiji 60.1% 657 50.1% 0.03% 1.1% 8.8% 0%
 Cambodia 58.9% 5,757 51.6% 0% 6.5% 0.8% 0%
 Rwanda 58.2% 595 54.5% 0% 3.5% 0.2% 0%
 Liberia 57.4% 132 55.7% 0% 1.6% 0.1% 0%
 Gabon 54.0% 984 53.9% 0% 0.04% 0.1% 0%
 Suriname 53.9% 866 52.7% 0% 0.8% 0.4% 0%
 Finland 52.9% 38,174 21.9% 11.8% 0.4% 18.0% 0%
 Sri Lanka 51.2% 8,580 43.0% 3.8% 3.3% 1.0% 0%
 Samoa 49.1% 80 28.8% 0.1% 14.1% 6.1% 0%
 Chile 48.9% 42,321 20.9% 8.8% 12.3% 6.5% 0.4%
 Spain 47.0% 128,968 12.0% 22.6% 9.9% 2.2% 0%
 Myanmar 46.4% 12,234 45.1% 0% 0.3% 1.0% 0%
 Romania 44.9% 26,677 29.8% 11.1% 2.9% 1.1% 0%
 Madagascar 42.8% 857 40.0% 0.02% 2.8% 0.03% 0%
 Vietnam 42.8% 104,331 31.1% 1.0% 10.5% 0.1% 0%
 Tanzania 42.8% 3,407 40.4% 0.1% 0.3% 2.0% 0%
 Italy 41.0% 118,442 16.4% 7.2% 8.7% 5.8% 2.0%
 Congo 40.7% 1,078 39.5% 0% 0.03% 1.2% 0%
 Greece 40.6% 22,195 10.9% 19.2% 9.6% 0.9% 0%
 United Kingdom 40.4% 124,072 2.4% 21.0% 3.9% 11.5% 0%
 Germany 40.1% 236,115 4.2% 19.5% 8.4% 7.0% 0.04%
 Papua New Guinea 40.0% 1,145 35.3% 0% 0.2% 1.1% 3.4%
 Estonia 40.0% 2,879 0.3% 10.2% 4.9% 23.7% 0%
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 39.3% 7,292 36.7% 2.1% 0.4% 0.2% 0%
 Bolivia 38.3% 4,162 29.8% 1.1% 3.2% 4.2% 0%
 Faroe Islands 38.1% 161 23.7% 12.8% 0.04% 1.6% 0%
 Ireland 37.3% 11,900 3.2% 30.7% 0.3% 2.0% 0%
 Slovenia 36.1% 5,733 31.5% 0.04% 2.9% 1.7% 0%
 Turkey 35.4% 118,555 16.7% 9.4% 4.2% 1.8% 3.2%
 Djibouti 35.4% 70 0% 35.1% 0.3% 0% 0%
 Serbia 34.9% 13,375 31.3% 2.8% 0.2% 0.6% 0%
 Ghana 34.8% 7,690 34.0% 0% 0.7% 0.1% 0%
 Guadeloupe 33.8% 563 0.7% 6.4% 6.8% 14.9% 5.0%
 Netherlands 33.1% 40,472 0.1% 14.7% 9.4% 7.1% 0%
 North Macedonia 30.7% 1,713 26.0% 1.9% 1.9% 1.0% 0%
 Armenia 30.5% 2,367 28.4% 0.02% 2.1% 0% 0%
 Pakistan 29.8% 45,183 24.7% 2.3% 0.8% 2.0% 0%
 China 28.6% 2,444,538 15.7% 7.7% 3.8% 0.9% 0%
 Réunion 28.2% 872 11.6% 0.1% 8.7% 7.8% 0%
 World 28.1% 7,983,492 15.5% 6.5% 3.6% 1.9% 0.3%
 Burkina Faso 27.4% 234 15.8% 0% 11.4% 0.2% 0%
 Argentina 27.2% 39,116 14.0% 9.0% 1.5% 2.7% 0%
 Australia 26.7% 70,799 5.7% 9.2% 10.4% 1.3% 0%
 Martinique 26.0% 393 0% 3.2% 6.0% 16.4% 0%
 Nigeria 25.3% 9,318 24.9% 0% 0.3% 0.2% 0%
 Vanuatu 25.2% 20 10.7% 5.2% 9.2% 0% 0%
 Palestine 24.5% 224 0% 0% 24.4% 0.03% 0%
 Jordan 24.2% 5,325 0.1% 7.2% 16.9% 0.02% 0%
 Caribbean Netherlands 24.1% 38 0% 18.4% 5.7% 0% 0%
 Falkland Islands 23.9% 4 0% 23.2% 0.7% 0% 0%
 French Polynesia 23.7% 148 23.1% 0.01% 0.6% 0% 0%
 Slovakia 23.6% 7,072 15.2% 0.02% 2.2% 6.0% 0%
 Belgium 23.5% 23,656 1.3% 11.9% 5.6% 3.7% 0%
 France 22.8% 126,708 11.5% 6.6% 2.8% 1.3% 0.02%
 New Caledonia 22.5% 654 14.6% 1.4% 6.4% 0.02% 0%
 Bulgaria 22.2% 10,556 10.7% 3.0% 3.1% 5.4% 0%
 Philippines 22.0% 24,023 8.5% 1.2% 1.4% 1.2% 9.8%
 Mauritius 21.6% 649 3.6% 0.5% 5.2% 12.3% 0%
 Cook Islands 21.1% 7 0% 0% 21.1% 0% 0%
 Japan 21.1% 221,529 8.5% 0.9% 8.2% 3.1% 0.3%
 Mexico 21.1% 81,902 8.9% 5.4% 5.2% 0.4% 1.1%
 Senegal 20.8% 848 0% 9.8% 9.3% 1.6% 0%
 Togo 20.7% 158 11.2% 0% 9.5% 0% 0%
 Russia 20.4% 222,080 19.9% 0.3% 0.1% 0.04% 0.04%
 Dominica 20.3% 21 19.5% 0.6% 0.2% 0% 0%
 United States 20.3% 886,892 6.3% 8.8% 3.5% 1.2% 0.4%
 Morocco 19.9% 8,222 2.9% 12.4% 4.5% 0.1% 0%
 Curaçao 19.5% 155 0% 17.7% 1.8% 0% 0%
 Mauritania 19.4% 271 0% 9.4% 10.0% 0% 0%
 India 19.2% 313,073 9.9% 3.8% 4.0% 1.3% 0%
 Hungary 19.1% 6,915 0.6% 1.8% 10.5% 5.7% 0.03%
 Thailand 19.0% 35,467 2.6% 1.9% 2.7% 11.2% 0%
 Ivory Coast 18.7% 2,633 18.7% 0% 0.04% 0% 0%
 Cabo Verde 18.3% 81 0% 16.7% 1.6% 0% 0%
 Haiti 18.2% 205 17.8% 0.01% 0.4% 0% 0%
 Indonesia 18.1% 55,767 8.0% 0% 0.1% 4.9% 5.2%
 Malaysia 17.8% 30,597 15.9% 0% 0.3% 1.7% 0%
 Poland 17.5% 31,364 1.7% 9.0% 2.2% 4.3% 0%
 Dominican Republic 17.0% 3,962 6.4% 5.3% 3.8% 1.5% 0%
 Yemen 16.9% 497 0% 0% 16.9% 0% 0%
 Kiribati 16.4% 5 0% 0% 16.4% 0% 0%
 Tuvalu 15.8% 2 0% 0% 15.8% 0% 0%
 Cyprus 15.1% 775 0% 4.8% 9.1% 1.2% 0%
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 15.0% 22 13.4% 0% 1.6% 0% 0%
 Aruba 14.8% 157 0% 12.5% 2.3% 0% 0%
 Tonga 14.2% 10 0% 3.6% 10.6% 0% 0%
 Czechia 14.0% 11,922 4.3% 0.7% 2.7% 6.2% 0%
 Niue 13.9% 0.5 0% 0% 13.9% 0% 0%
 Jamaica 12.8% 551 3.2% 6.1% 3.1% 0.4% 0%
 Ukraine 12.7% 18,971 5.0% 2.3% 4.8% 0.5% 0%
 Egypt 12.3% 25,288 7.2% 2.6% 2.4% 0.1% 0%
 Mayotte 12.1% 44 0% 0% 12.1% 0% 0%
 Equatorial Guinea 12.0% 127 11.9% 0% 0.02% 0% 0%
 Malta 11.9% 263 0% 0% 11.6% 0.3% 0%
 Somalia 11.2% 43 0% 1.6% 9.6% 0% 0%
 Kazakhstan 11.0% 12,656 8.0% 1.5% 1.4% 0.03% 0%
 Montserrat 10.3% 2 0% 0% 10.3% 0% 0%
 Mongolia 10.3% 814 1.1% 7.1% 2.1% 0% 0%
 Nauru 9.8% 5 0% 0% 9.8% 0% 0%
 Moldova 9.5% 433 6.8% 1.7% 0.2% 0.7% 0%
 Niger 8.1% 46 0% 0% 8.1% 0% 0%
 Uzbekistan 7.7% 5,050 7.7% 0% 0.1% 0% 0%
 Israel 7.6% 5,631 0% 0.2% 7.2% 0.1% 0%
 South Africa 7.4% 15,783 3.1% 0.1% 4.0% 0.2% 0%
 Barbados 7.3% 88 0% 0% 7.3% 0% 0%
 Guyana 7.1% 86 0.001% 0.03% 1.1% 6.0% 0%
 Guinea-Bissau 7.1% 2 0% 0% 7.1% 0% 0%
 South Korea 6.7% 41,275 1.1% 0.5% 3.8% 1.2% 0%
 Solomon Islands 6.6% 7 0.9% 0% 3.0% 2.7% 0%
 Taiwan 6.5% 18,802 2.3% 0.8% 2.7% 0.1% 0%
 Kosovo 6.4% 439 4.3% 1.8% 0.2% 0% 0%
 São Tomé and Príncipe 6.1% 6 5.9% 0% 0.2% 0% 0%
 Maldives 5.8% 49 0% 0.3% 5.5% 0% 0%
 Azerbaijan 5.8% 1,617 4.6% 0.3% 0.2% 0% 0%
 Antigua and Barbuda 5.7% 20 0% 0% 5.7% 0% 0%
 Chad 5.6% 19 0% 2.6% 0.4% 2.6% 0%
 Iraq 5.3% 4,541 4.8% 0% 0.4% 0% 0%
 Cuba 5.1% 926 0.7% 0.2% 1.2% 3.0% 0%
 Eritrea 5.0% 22 0% 0.3% 4.7% 0% 0%
 Micronesia 4.9% 4 1.4% 0% 3.5% 0% 0%
 Guam 4.8% 84 0% 0.03% 4.8% 0% 0%
 Palau 4.6% 4 0% 0% 4.6% 0% 0%
 Puerto Rico 4.6% 898 0.2% 0.8% 3.5% 0.1% 0%
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 4.5% 10 0% 2.4% 2.1% 0% 0%
 Seychelles 4.5% 20 0% 1.1% 3.4% 0% 0%
 Iran 4.2% 15,084 3.9% 0.2% 0.2% 0.01% 0%
 United Arab Emirates 4.2% 6,262 0% 0% 4.2% 0.0% 0%
 Singapore 4.1% 2,267 0% 0% 0.9% 0.8% 0%
 American Samoa 3.9% 7 0% 0% 3.9% 0% 0%
 Lebanon 3.5% 523 2.5% 0% 0.7% 0.2% 0%
 Belarus 3.4% 1,298 1.0% 0.4% 0.5% 1.5% 0%
 Syria 3.3% 847 2.9% 0% 0.2% 0.1% 0%
 Cayman Islands 2.9% 22 0% 0% 2.9% 0% 0%
 Tunisia 2.9% 617 0.1% 2.0% 0.8% 0% 0%
 Saint Lucia 2.5% 10 0% 0% 1.9% 0.7% 0%
 US Virgin Islands 2.5% 17 0% 0.04% 2.5% 0% 0%
 Anguilla 2.5% 3 0% 0% 2.5% 0% 0%
 Marshall Islands 2.4% 2 0% 0.02% 2.4% 0% 0%
 British Virgin Islands 2.3% 4 0% 1.2% 1.1% 0% 0%
 Grenada 2.0% 5 0% 0.1% 1.9% 0% 0%
 Oman 1.9% 802 0% 0.3% 1.6% 0% 0%
 Gambia 1.6% 6 0% 0.5% 1.1% 0% 0%
 Bangladesh 1.6% 1,436 0.8% 0.01% 0.8% 0.0% 0%
 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.5% 4 0% 0% 1.5% 0% 0%
 Algeria 0.9% 780 0.01% 0.01% 0.9% 0% 0%
 Hong Kong 0.8% 311 0.004% 0% 0.3% 0.5% 0%
 Saint Martin 0.8% 1.5 0% 0% 0.8% 0% 0%
 Bahamas 0.5% 8 0% 0.04% 0.4% 0% 0%
 East Timor 0.4% 2 0.3% 0% 0.1% 0% 0%
 South Sudan 0.3% 2 0% 0% 0.3% 0% 0%
 Qatar 0.3% 143 0% 0% 0.02% 0.1% 0%
 Kuwait 0.3% 214 0% 0.1% 0.2% 0% 0%
 Botswana 0.2% 6 0% 0% 0.2% 0% 0%
 Benin 0.2% 3 0.01% 0% 0.2% 0% 0%
 Trinidad and Tobago 0.1% 6 0% 0% 0.1% 0% 0%
 Saudi Arabia 0.1% 267 0% 0% 0.1% 0% 0%
 Saint Barthélemy 0.1% 0.07 0% 0% 0.1% 0% 0%
 Bahrain 0.04% 13 0% 0% 0.03% 0% 0%
 Brunei 0.03% 1.1 0% 0% 0.03% 0% 0%
 Libya 0.02% 8 0% 0% 0.02% 0% 0%
 Turkmenistan 0.01% 3 0.01% 0% 0% 0% 0%
 Comoros 0% 0 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0% 0 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
 Sint Maarten 0% 0 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

See also

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References

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  4. ^ "Renewables Jobs Nearly Doubled in Past Decade, Soared to 13.7 Million in 2022". IRENA. 28 Sep 2023. Retrieved 19 Dec 2023.