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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
101 Mexico 23.38%
102 France 22.80%
103 Cote d'Ivoire 22.78%
104 Philippines 22.64%
105 New Caledonia 22.48%
106 Nigeria 22.23%
107 Bulgaria 22.19%
108 Mauritius 21.68%
109 Japan 21.10%
110 Haiti 20.54%
111 Dominica 20.29%
112 United States 20.27%
113 Thailand 19.93%
114 Mauritania 19.36%
115 Morocco 19.32%
116 Russian Federation 19.15%
117 Hungary 19.14%
118 India 19.13%
119 Cabo Verde 18.27%
120 Curacao 18.26%
121 Poland 17.46%
122 Dominican Republic 17.06%
123 Malaysia 17.00%
124 Kiribati 16.37%
125 Tuvalu 15.84%
126 Indonesia 15.53%
127 Cyprus 15.13%
128 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 15.02%
129 Aruba 14.80%
130 Tonga 14.20%
131 Czechia 14.02%
132 Burkina Faso 13.92%
133 Senegal 13.29%
134 Jamaica 12.75%
135 Egypt, Arab Rep. 12.20%
136 Ukraine 12.01%
137 Malta 11.89%
138 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 11.21%
139 Kazakhstan 11.00%
140 Mongolia 10.95%
141 Yemen, Rep. 10.45%
142 Naoero 9.82%
143 Equatorial Guinea 8.82%
144 Niger 7.83%
145 Israel 7.63%
146 Barbados 7.33%
147 Guyana 7.11%
148 Guinea-Bissau 7.09%
149 Uzbekistan 7.08%
150 Korea, Rep. 6.59%
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.