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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
1 Bhutan 100.00%
2 Lesotho 99.79%
3 Costa Rica 99.37%
4 Norway 99.10%
5 Central African Republic 96.47%
6 El Salvador 95.56%
7 Tajikistan 93.38%
8 Namibia 93.37%
9 Andorra 93.34%
10 Belize 92.86%
11 Zambia 92.00%
12 Angola 91.16%
13 Congo, Dem. Rep. 90.43%
14 Uganda 90.01%
15 Luxembourg 89.04%
16 Zimbabwe 88.31%
17 Guinea 88.13%
18 Kyrgyz Republic 85.59%
19 Uruguay 84.35%
20 Nepal 83.98%
21 Eswatini 83.07%
22 Mozambique 82.71%
23 Venezuela, RB 81.72%
24 New Zealand 81.44%
25 Georgia 81.37%
26 Ecuador 80.95%
27 Malawi 80.06%
28 Austria 79.91%
29 Panama 79.28%
30 Denmark 78.96%
31 Afghanistan 78.23%
32 Kenya 78.08%
33 Brazil 77.38%
34 Greenland 77.04%
35 Sierra Leone 75.28%
36 Colombia 75.12%
37 Croatia 69.88%
38 Nicaragua 69.51%
39 Switzerland 67.88%
40 Sweden 67.39%
41 Canada 67.02%
42 Lithuania 65.61%
43 Portugal 64.91%
44 Honduras 64.62%
45 Latvia 63.60%
46 Lao PDR 63.29%
47 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 63.08%
48 Mali 62.29%
49 Cameroon 61.90%
50 Peru 61.78%
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.