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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
151 Solomon Islands 6.56%
152 Moldova 6.50%
153 South Africa 6.45%
154 Kosovo 6.37%
155 Sao Tome and Principe 6.06%
156 Maldives 5.82%
157 Azerbaijan 5.80%
158 Antigua and Barbuda 5.66%
159 Lebanon 5.07%
160 Eritrea 5.05%
161 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 4.95%
162 Guam 4.80%
163 Cuba 4.77%
164 Chad 4.61%
165 Palau 4.60%
166 Puerto Rico (US) 4.58%
167 St. Kitts and Nevis 4.53%
168 Seychelles 4.51%
169 Iran, Islamic Rep. 4.24%
170 United Arab Emirates 4.20%
171 Singapore 4.02%
172 American Samoa 3.87%
173 Iraq 3.78%
174 Syrian Arab Republic 3.39%
175 Belarus 3.15%
176 Cayman Islands 2.94%
177 Tunisia 2.82%
178 St. Lucia 2.54%
179 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 2.50%
180 Marshall Islands 2.43%
181 British Virgin Islands 2.25%
182 Grenada 1.97%
183 Oman 1.94%
184 Gambia, The 1.60%
185 Bangladesh 1.51%
186 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.48%
187 Algeria 0.91%
188 Hong Kong SAR, China 0.83%
189 St. Martin (French part) 0.81%
190 Bahamas, The 0.48%
191 Timor-Leste 0.37%
192 South Sudan 0.34%
193 Qatar 0.28%
194 Kuwait 0.27%
195 Benin 0.26%
196 Botswana 0.25%
197 Trinidad and Tobago 0.07%
198 Saudi Arabia 0.07%
199 Bahrain 0.04%
200 Libya 0.02%
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.