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Renewable electricity output (% of total electricity output)

For 2021, Renewable electricity output (% of total electricity output) is led by Bhutan at 100.00%. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

Renewable electricity is the share of electricity generated by renewable power plants in total electricity generated by all types of plants.

Countries ranked 204
Snapshot year 2021
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0.025.050.075.0100BhutanBhutan: 100.00%100LesothoLesotho: 99.79%99.8Costa RicaCosta Rica: 99.37%99.4NorwayNorway: 99.10%99.1Central African RepublicCentral African Republic: 96.47%96.5El SalvadorEl Salvador: 95.56%95.6TajikistanTajikistan: 93.38%93.4NamibiaNamibia: 93.37%93.4AndorraAndorra: 93.34%93.3BelizeBelize: 92.86%92.9ZambiaZambia: 92.00%92.0AngolaAngola: 91.16%91.2
Rank Country Value
51 Montenegro 61.78%
52 Burundi 61.30%
53 Guatemala 60.61%
54 Fiji 60.07%
55 Rwanda 59.89%
56 Sudan 57.96%
57 Liberia 57.42%
58 Cambodia 56.37%
59 Finland 52.93%
60 Myanmar 50.84%
61 Sri Lanka 49.24%
62 Samoa 49.14%
63 Chile 48.08%
64 Spain 47.01%
65 Romania 44.86%
66 Suriname 41.93%
67 Viet Nam 41.17%
68 Italy 40.97%
69 Greece 40.56%
70 United Kingdom 40.20%
71 Papua New Guinea 39.96%
72 Estonia 39.96%
73 Germany 39.83%
74 Bosnia and Herzegovina 39.34%
75 Bolivia 38.24%
76 Faroe Islands 38.08%
77 Tanzania 37.20%
78 Ireland 37.15%
79 Slovenia 36.11%
80 Turkiye 35.42%
81 Djibouti 35.35%
82 Serbia 34.98%
83 Ghana 34.87%
84 Madagascar 34.11%
85 Netherlands 33.13%
86 Congo, Rep. 31.71%
87 Gabon 31.59%
88 North Macedonia 30.97%
89 Armenia 30.04%
90 China 28.43%
91 Pakistan 28.28%
92 Australia 26.66%
93 Argentina 25.54%
94 Togo 25.30%
95 Vanuatu 25.15%
96 Jordan 24.92%
97 West Bank and Gaza 24.46%
98 French Polynesia 23.73%
99 Slovak Republic 23.56%
100 Belgium 23.54%
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Bhutan sits at the top of the Renewable electricity output (% of total electricity output) distribution in 2021 at 100.00%, with a lead of 0.21% over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is France at 22.80%, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Sint Maarten (Dutch part) (0.00%), and the page currently covers 204 countries.