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This is a list of countries and dependencies by electricity generation from renewable sources each year.
Renewables accounted for 28% of electric generation in 2021, consisting of hydro (55%), wind (23%), biomass (13%), solar (7%) and geothermal (1%). China produced 31% of global renewable electricity, followed by the United States (11%), Brazil (6.4%), Canada (5.4%) and India (3.9%).[1]
Renewable investment reached almost $500 billion globally in 2022,[2] amounting to 83% of new electric capacity that year.[3] The renewable energy industry employs almost 14 million people.[4]
List
Data are from IRENA unless otherwise specified, and are for the year 2021.[1]
| Country / dependency | % ren. |
Ren. gen. (GWh) |
% hydro |
% wind |
% solar |
% bio. |
% geo. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ethiopia |
100% | 15,817 | 94.5% | 5.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0% |
 Bhutan |
100% | 10,823 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
 Albania |
100% | 8,963 | 99.5% | 0% | 0.5% | 0% | 0% |
 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands |
100% | 0.8 | 98.7% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
 Nepal |
100% | 8,107 | 98.7% | 0% | 1.2% | 0.1% | 0% |
 Paraguay |
100% | 40,848 | 99.3% | 0% | 0% | 0.7% | 0% |
 Iceland |
100% | 19,617 | 70.4% | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0% | 29.6% |
 Costa Rica |
100% | 12,656 | 73.4% | 12.4% | 0.8% | 0.7% | 12.7% |
 Lesotho |
99.8% | 532 | 99.6% | 0% | 0.1% | 0% | 0% |
 Eswatini |
99.8% | 460 | 56.1% | 0% | 0.3% | 43.4% | 0% |
 Norway |
99.1% | 156,507 | 91.4% | 7.5% | 0.1% | 0.02% | 0% |
 DR Congo |
99.0% | 11,921 | 98.8% | 0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0% |
 Uganda |
97.8% | 4,749 | 88.2% | 0% | 2.9% | 6.8% | 0% |
 Central African Republic |
96.5% | 142 | 96.2% | 0% | 0.3% | 0% | 0% |
 Andorra |
93.3% | 97 | 75.9% | 0% | 1.2% | 0% | 0% |
 Belize |
92.9% | 437 | 33.4% | 0.01% | 2.1% | 57.4% | 0% |
 Tajikistan |
92.8% | 19,348 | 92.8% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
 Zambia |
92.0% | 16,310 | 90.7% | 0% | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0% |
 Tokelau |
91.7% | 1.2 | 0% | 0% | 91.7% | 0% | 0% |
 Namibia |
90.7% | 1,333 | 59.5% | 1.5% | 29.7% | 0.01% | 0% |
 Luxembourg |
89.0% | 1,968 | 49.1% | 14.2% | 8.1% | 15.7% | 0% |
 Guinea |
88.1% | 2,667 | 87.4% | 0% | 0.7% | 0% | 0% |
 Kenya |
88.1% | 9,663 | 34.5% | 0.8% | 3.9% | 1.8% | 47.3% |
 El Salvador |
86.0% | 6,063 | 25.9% | 1.9% | 23.3% | 12.8% | 22.1% |
 Kyrgyzstan |
85.6% | 12,957 | 85.6% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
 Uruguay |
84.5% | 13,492 | 33.0% | 31.3% | 3.0% | 17.2% | 0% |
 Mozambique |
84.5% | 15,603 | 83.8% | 0% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0% |
 Venezuela |
84.2% | 62,614 | 84.1% | 0.1% | 0.01% | 0% | 0% |
 Panama |
81.7% | 9,597 | 69.4% | 4.5% | 5.6% | 2.2% | 0% |
 New Zealand |
81.4% | 36,329 | 54.3% | 5.9% | 0.5% | 1.8% | 18.9% |
 Georgia |
81.2% | 10,289 | 80.4% | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0% | 0% |
 Ecuador |
81.0% | 26,077 | 79.4% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 1.3% | 0% |
 Malawi |
80.1% | 1,869 | 72.5% | 0% | 5.5% | 2.1% | 0% |
 Austria |
79.9% | 56,542 | 60.1% | 9.5% | 3.9% | 5.8% | 0% |
 Cameroon |
79.3% | 5,110 | 79.0% | 0% | 0.3% | 0% | 0% |
 Denmark |
79.0% | 26,096 | 0.05% | 48.6% | 4.0% | 23.4% | 0% |
 Afghanistan |
78.2% | 927 | 71.7% | 0.01% | 6.6% | 0% | 0% |
 Brazil |
77.4% | 507,667 | 55.3% | 11.0% | 2.6% | 8.5% | 0% |
 Greenland |
77.0% | 447 | 74.5% | 0.01% | 0.1% | 0% | 0% |
 Colombia |
75.4% | 63,145 | 72.5% | 0.1% | 0.6% | 2.2% | 0% |
 Sierra Leone |
75.3% | 244 | 70.5% | 0% | 1.9% | 2.9% | 0% |
 Angola |
73.7% | 14,004 | 72.6% | 0% | 0.01% | 1.1% | 0% |
 Guatemala |
73.3% | 9,393 | 46.5% | 2.5% | 1.9% | 20.3% | 2.1% |
 Zimbabwe |
71.3% | 6,217 | 68.9% | 0% | 0.7% | 1.6% | 0% |
 Croatia |
69.9% | 10,629 | 47.5% | 13.6% | 1.0% | 7.2% | 0.6% |
 Laos |
69.3% | 28,427 | 69.1% | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0% |
 Nicaragua |
69.3% | 2,928 | 14.2% | 15.5% | 0.6% | 21.6% | 17.4% |
 French Guiana |
69.1% | 688 | 58.8% | 0% | 5.7% | 4.6% | 0% |
 Switzerland |
68.1% | 44,949 | 60.4% | 0.2% | 4.3% | 1.5% | 0% |
 Canada |
67.5% | 433,791 | 59.5% | 5.4% | 0.9% | 1.5% | 0% |
 Sweden |
67.4% | 115,778 | 43.0% | 15.9% | 0.9% | 6.6% | 0% |
 Lithuania |
65.6% | 3,332 | 21.5% | 26.8% | 3.8% | 10.7% | 0% |
 Portugal |
64.9% | 33,089 | 26.4% | 25.9% | 4.4% | 7.2% | 0.4% |
 Latvia |
63.6% | 3,718 | 46.3% | 2.4% | 0.1% | 14.7% | 0% |
 North Korea |
63.2% | 16,168 | 63.0% | 0% | 0.3% | 0% | 0% |
 Honduras |
62.8% | 7,186 | 33.0% | 6.8% | 9.5% | 10.5% | 3.0% |
 Mali |
62.3% | 1,875 | 56.6% | 0% | 3.1% | 2.6% | 0% |
 Montenegro |
61.8% | 2,333 | 53.2% | 8.5% | 0.1% | 0% | 0% |
 Peru |
61.7% | 35,203 | 55.9% | 3.2% | 1.5% | 1.0% | 0% |
 Burundi |
61.3% | 278 | 59.6% | 0% | 0.5% | 1.2% | 0% |
 Sudan |
60.8% | 10,195 | 60.0% | 0% | 0.2% | 0.6% | 0% |
 Fiji |
60.1% | 657 | 50.1% | 0.03% | 1.1% | 8.8% | 0% |
 Cambodia |
58.9% | 5,757 | 51.6% | 0% | 6.5% | 0.8% | 0% |
 Rwanda |
58.2% | 595 | 54.5% | 0% | 3.5% | 0.2% | 0% |
 Liberia |
57.4% | 132 | 55.7% | 0% | 1.6% | 0.1% | 0% |
 Gabon |
54.0% | 984 | 53.9% | 0% | 0.04% | 0.1% | 0% |
 Suriname |
53.9% | 866 | 52.7% | 0% | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0% |
 Finland |
52.9% | 38,174 | 21.9% | 11.8% | 0.4% | 18.0% | 0% |
 Sri Lanka |
51.2% | 8,580 | 43.0% | 3.8% | 3.3% | 1.0% | 0% |
 Samoa |
49.1% | 80 | 28.8% | 0.1% | 14.1% | 6.1% | 0% |
 Chile |
48.9% | 42,321 | 20.9% | 8.8% | 12.3% | 6.5% | 0.4% |
 Spain |
47.0% | 128,968 | 12.0% | 22.6% | 9.9% | 2.2% | 0% |
 Myanmar |
46.4% | 12,234 | 45.1% | 0% | 0.3% | 1.0% | 0% |
 Romania |
44.9% | 26,677 | 29.8% | 11.1% | 2.9% | 1.1% | 0% |
 Madagascar |
42.8% | 857 | 40.0% | 0.02% | 2.8% | 0.03% | 0% |
 Vietnam |
42.8% | 104,331 | 31.1% | 1.0% | 10.5% | 0.1% | 0% |
 Tanzania |
42.8% | 3,407 | 40.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 2.0% | 0% |
 Italy |
41.0% | 118,442 | 16.4% | 7.2% | 8.7% | 5.8% | 2.0% |
 Congo |
40.7% | 1,078 | 39.5% | 0% | 0.03% | 1.2% | 0% |
 Greece |
40.6% | 22,195 | 10.9% | 19.2% | 9.6% | 0.9% | 0% |
 United Kingdom |
40.4% | 124,072 | 2.4% | 21.0% | 3.9% | 11.5% | 0% |