Renewable electricity output
Renewable electricity is the share of electricity generated by renewable power plants in total electricity generated by all types of plants.
A newer source series is available: IRENA renewable electricity output through 2024. The complete source series is kept separate from WDI.
Renewable electricity output
% of total electricity output · 2000–2026
This WDI series ends in 2021. A separate IRENA series has generation shares through 2024 for 20 countries. Compare the more recent IRENA series. Coverage and source editions differ.
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Showing selected countries and up to 12 suggestions. Search by name or code across 217 countries and economies.Selected window: 2000–2026. Solid: observed · Dashed: estimate/projection · Dotted: source status unclassified · Diamond: 2026.
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How to read this chart
Unclassified means the provider did not supply an explicit observation/estimate flag. It does not mean the value is unreliable. Source or methodology changes can affect trends across editions.
Countries publish data on different schedules. A shorter line or a gap means the source has no value for that country and year. Missing values are not zero. Only separately sourced official estimates or projections may fill gaps; we do not invent intermediate values. Use Table to inspect individual years.
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Compare the same definition and period. Differences are descriptive, not causal. National measurement methods may differ; crude rates are not age-standardised. Missing uncertainty intervals in this feed do not mean an estimate is exact.
At the same point in time
Latest comparable common year within this selection: 2021.
United States minus Portugal: -44.63 percentage points.
Japan minus Portugal: -43.8 percentage points.
Calculated by World in Stats from the named source values. Differences are not causal effects.Where did these numbers come from?
- Dataset
- World Development Indicators
- Original indicator
- EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS · Original source
- Data providers
- IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25
- Source dataset update
- 8 October 2026
- Retrieved
- 13 October 2026
- Publication date
- Not supplied separately by the API
- Definition
- Renewable electricity is the share of electricity generated by renewable power plants in total electricity generated by all types of plants.
- Unit
- % of total electricity output
- Transformations
- None. Display values may be rounded; CSV retains source precision.
- Licence & attribution
- IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25. Source attribution and terms. No endorsement implied.
- Verification
- Exact API query · Indicator metadata
Interpreting this indicator
This is renewable electricity generated as a share of total generation, not installed generating capacity. Weather can affect hydro, wind and solar output. The separate IRENA series has a different source edition and should not be silently spliced onto this WDI series.
Understand percentages, rates and uncertainty
Data availability varies by country and year. Compare the same definition and time period. Revisions may change historical observations; these values belong to the snapshot retrieved on 13 October 2026.
This feed does not supply uncertainty intervals for these observations. No ranking or causal explanation is inferred.