Renewable electricity (share of power) over time (1990–2021)

Follow renewable electricity (share of power) for the world’s countries, year by year, from 1990 to 2021.

The country ranked first was Ghana (100.0%) in 1990 and is Bhutan (100.0%) in 2021.
Japan’s renewable electricity (share of power) went from 11.3% in 1990 to 21.1% in 2021 (up 9.8 points).
Japan ranked #79 of 131 countries in 1990 and #104 of 186 in 2021. The number of countries differs between the years, so the ranks are not directly comparable.

Japan and countries at the top, middle and bottom

Key years for Japan and countries at the top, middle and bottom of the 2021 ranking
Country	1990	2000	2010	2021
Bhutan	–	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
North Korea	56.3%	52.6%	56.5%	63.1%
Jordan	0.3%	0.6%	0.5%	24.9%
Japan	11.3%	10.3%	9.7%	21.1%
Guinea-Bissau	–	0.0%	0.0%	7.1%
Comoros	–	0.0%	7.3%	0.0%
Countries with data	131	181	185	186

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2021


Rank	Country	Renewable electricity (share of power)

Biggest changes, 1990–2021

Compared among the countries that have data in both 1990 and 2021. Countries with a very small starting value are left out, because their ratios look exaggerated.

Biggest increases
Country	1990	2021	Change	Rank
Luxembourg	6.0%	89.0%	up 83 points	#91 → #15
Denmark	3.2%	79.0%	up 75.8 points	#100 → #29
Lithuania	1.5%	65.6%	up 64.2 points	#104 → #42
Zimbabwe	46.7%	87.5%	up 40.9 points	#48 → #17
Estonia	0.0%	40.0%	up 40 points	#117 → #71

Biggest decreases
Country	1990	2021	Change	Rank
Republic of the Congo	99.4%	31.7%	down 67.7 points	#8 → #85
Ghana	100.0%	34.9%	down 65.1 points	#1 → #81
Haiti	79.4%	20.5%	down 58.9 points	#24 → #105
Tanzania	95.1%	37.2%	down 57.9 points	#14 → #75
Sri Lanka	99.8%	49.2%	down 50.6 points	#5 → #60

The number of countries differs between the years, so the ranks are not directly comparable.

All countries in key years

Open the table (countries with data)

Key years for Japan and the leading countries in 2021
Country	1990	2000	2010	2021
Bhutan	–	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Lesotho	–	99.9%	99.9%	99.8%
Costa Rica	97.5%	98.6%	92.5%	99.4%
Norway	99.6%	99.7%	95.8%	99.1%
Central African Republic	–	99.7%	99.8%	96.5%
El Salvador	93.2%	60.0%	66.7%	95.6%
Tajikistan	90.9%	98.7%	99.8%	93.4%
Namibia	–	92.8%	97.8%	93.4%
Andorra	–	100.0%	100.0%	93.3%
Belize	–	45.5%	89.7%	92.9%
Zambia	99.2%	100.0%	–	92.0%
Angola	86.2%	62.3%	67.6%	91.2%
Democratic Republic of the Congo	99.6%	–	94.8%	90.4%
Uganda	–	–	52.3%	90.0%
Luxembourg	6.0%	78.7%	35.5%	89.0%
Guinea	–	56.0%	77.4%	88.1%
Zimbabwe	46.7%	47.0%	67.4%	87.5%
Kyrgyzstan	63.5%	91.6%	93.0%	85.6%
Uruguay	95.0%	93.3%	89.1%	84.4%
Nepal	99.9%	99.3%	96.4%	84.0%
Eswatini	–	–	49.2%	83.1%
Mozambique	61.6%	91.1%	99.9%	82.7%
Venezuela	62.3%	73.7%	67.2%	81.7%
New Zealand	79.2%	71.9%	73.4%	81.5%
Georgia	55.2%	79.2%	92.6%	81.4%
Ecuador	78.5%	71.7%	45.5%	80.9%
Malawi	–	93.2%	98.9%	80.1%
Austria	64.9%	73.2%	67.8%	79.9%
Denmark	3.2%	15.5%	32.0%	79.0%
Afghanistan	–	93.5%	81.8%	78.2%
Kenya	92.9%	59.1%	62.7%	78.1%
Brazil	94.5%	89.5%	84.8%	77.4%
Colombia	76.4%	74.1%	68.5%	76.2%
Sierra Leone	–	34.8%	87.4%	75.3%
Croatia	46.5%	57.4%	63.1%	69.9%
Nicaragua	61.4%	17.6%	37.0%	69.5%
Panama	85.3%	74.4%	59.7%	69.0%
Switzerland	53.8%	57.9%	57.9%	67.9%
Sweden	50.8%	57.3%	55.3%	67.4%
Canada	62.3%	60.6%	61.2%	67.0%
Cameroon	98.5%	98.9%	72.2%	65.8%
Lithuania	1.5%	5.6%	29.0%	65.6%
Honduras	98.3%	62.3%	46.3%	64.9%
Portugal	34.5%	30.3%	53.2%	64.9%
Latvia	67.6%	68.3%	54.9%	63.6%
Laos	–	–	–	63.3%
North Korea	56.3%	52.6%	56.5%	63.1%
Mali	–	27.2%	63.6%	62.3%
Peru	76.8%	85.5%	57.3%	61.8%
Montenegro	–	–	68.4%	61.8%
Burundi	–	100.0%	88.5%	61.3%
Sudan	63.2%	49.9%	84.5%	61.1%
Guatemala	96.5%	58.6%	63.5%	60.6%
Fiji	–	76.1%	51.3%	60.1%
Rwanda	–	63.5%	67.7%	59.9%
Liberia	–	26.3%	22.2%	57.4%
Cambodia	–	9.0%	4.0%	56.4%
Finland	29.5%	33.4%	30.0%	52.9%
Myanmar	48.1%	38.5%	72.4%	50.8%
Sri Lanka	99.8%	45.8%	53.0%	49.2%
Samoa	–	54.0%	36.2%	49.1%
Chile	53.8%	49.5%	40.8%	48.1%
Spain	17.1%	16.9%	33.5%	47.0%
Romania	17.7%	28.5%	33.9%	44.9%
Suriname	–	–	61.8%	41.9%
Vietnam	61.8%	53.0%	38.7%	41.2%
Italy	16.1%	20.8%	26.6%	41.0%
Greece	5.1%	8.5%	18.4%	40.6%
United Kingdom	1.8%	3.4%	7.7%	40.2%
Papua New Guinea	–	41.5%	41.9%	40.0%
Estonia	0.0%	0.2%	8.1%	40.0%
Germany	3.5%	6.9%	17.6%	39.8%
Bosnia & Herzegovina	20.9%	48.8%	46.9%	39.3%
Bolivia	50.3%	49.8%	34.4%	38.2%
Tanzania	95.1%	75.1%	52.8%	37.2%
Ireland	4.8%	6.2%	13.8%	37.2%
Slovenia	23.7%	28.7%	30.0%	36.1%
Türkiye	40.4%	24.9%	26.4%	35.4%
Djibouti	–	0.0%	0.0%	35.4%
Serbia	23.8%	31.8%	33.0%	35.0%
Ghana	100.0%	91.7%	69.0%	34.9%
Madagascar	–	68.5%	61.1%	34.1%
Netherlands	1.1%	3.3%	9.4%	33.1%
Gabon	72.4%	89.2%	47.0%	33.0%
Republic of the Congo	99.4%	28.6%	58.8%	31.7%
North Macedonia	8.5%	17.2%	33.5%	31.0%
Armenia	15.0%	21.2%	39.5%	30.0%
China	20.4%	16.6%	18.8%	28.4%
Pakistan	44.9%	28.5%	33.4%	28.3%
Australia	9.6%	8.5%	8.6%	26.7%
Argentina	35.3%	33.0%	28.6%	25.5%
Togo	60.1%	51.4%	–	25.3%
Vanuatu	–	1.8%	17.8%	25.2%
Jordan	0.3%	0.6%	0.5%	24.9%
Slovakia	7.2%	16.0%	22.7%	23.6%
Belgium	0.8%	2.7%	8.4%	23.5%
Mexico	24.7%	19.8%	16.6%	23.4%
France	13.3%	13.7%	14.6%	22.8%
Côte d’Ivoire	66.7%	36.8%	27.1%	22.8%
Philippines	45.4%	42.9%	26.4%	22.6%
Bulgaria	4.5%	7.2%	13.8%	22.2%
Nigeria	32.6%	42.8%	26.1%	22.0%
Mauritius	31.2%	29.6%	21.5%	21.7%
Japan	11.3%	10.3%	9.7%	21.1%
Haiti	79.4%	51.7%	25.7%	20.5%
Dominica	–	40.8%	24.0%	20.3%
United States	11.5%	8.8%	10.6%	20.3%
Thailand	11.3%	7.1%	6.1%	19.9%
Mauritania	–	0.0%	0.0%	19.4%
Morocco	12.7%	6.1%	18.2%	19.3%
Russia	15.3%	18.9%	16.4%	19.2%
Hungary	0.7%	0.7%	8.1%	19.1%
India	24.8%	14.0%	15.0%	19.1%
Cape Verde	–	3.1%	1.2%	18.3%
Poland	1.1%	3.0%	7.4%	17.5%
Dominican Republic	10.0%	7.9%	10.3%	17.1%
Malaysia	17.3%	10.9%	6.2%	17.0%
Kiribati	–	0.8%	3.0%	16.4%
Tuvalu	–	0.2%	1.5%	15.8%
Indonesia	20.9%	21.0%	19.5%	15.5%
Cyprus	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	15.1%
St. Vincent & Grenadines	–	25.9%	17.5%	15.0%
Tonga	–	0.2%	0.3%	14.2%
Czechia	1.9%	3.9%	7.6%	14.0%
Burkina Faso	–	25.2%	13.9%	13.9%
Senegal	4.7%	0.9%	1.4%	13.3%
Jamaica	7.6%	1.7%	5.4%	12.8%
Egypt	23.9%	18.0%	9.0%	12.2%
Ukraine	3.5%	6.7%	7.1%	12.0%
Malta	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	11.9%
Somalia	–	0.0%	0.0%	11.2%
Kazakhstan	8.4%	14.7%	9.7%	11.0%
Mongolia	0.0%	0.1%	1.1%	10.9%
Yemen	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	10.3%
Nauru	–	0.0%	0.1%	9.8%
Equatorial Guinea	–	10.3%	2.5%	8.8%
Israel	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	7.6%
Barbados	–	0.0%	0.2%	7.3%
Guyana	–	4.5%	9.8%	7.1%
Guinea-Bissau	–	0.0%	0.0%	7.1%
Uzbekistan	11.8%	12.5%	15.6%	7.1%
South Korea	5.8%	2.0%	1.8%	6.7%
Solomon Islands	–	1.4%	3.2%	6.6%
Moldova	1.6%	6.7%	6.7%	6.5%
South Africa	0.6%	2.0%	1.9%	6.4%
Niger	–	0.4%	1.2%	6.2%
São Tomé & Príncipe	–	20.6%	91.6%	6.1%
Maldives	–	0.0%	0.5%	5.8%
Azerbaijan	7.2%	8.2%	18.4%	5.8%
Chad	–	10.0%	8.8%	5.7%
Antigua & Barbuda	–	0.0%	0.0%	5.7%
Lebanon	33.3%	4.5%	5.3%	5.1%
Eritrea	–	0.0%	0.6%	5.0%
Micronesia	–	4.2%	1.1%	4.9%
Cuba	10.3%	6.9%	3.2%	4.8%
Palau	–	0.0%	0.4%	4.6%
St. Kitts & Nevis	–	0.0%	2.6%	4.5%
Seychelles	–	0.0%	0.0%	4.5%
Iran	10.3%	3.0%	4.2%	4.2%
United Arab Emirates	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.2%
Singapore	0.5%	4.4%	3.3%	4.0%
Iraq	10.8%	1.9%	9.7%	3.8%
Syria	23.5%	12.9%	5.7%	3.4%
Belarus	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%	3.1%
Tunisia	0.8%	0.8%	1.2%	2.8%
St. Lucia	–	0.0%	0.0%	2.5%
Marshall Islands	–	0.1%	0.6%	2.4%
Grenada	–	0.0%	0.2%	2.0%
Oman	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%
Gambia	–	0.0%	1.2%	1.6%
Bangladesh	11.4%	8.8%	2.2%	1.5%
Algeria	0.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.9%
Bahamas	–	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
Timor-Leste	–	–	0.9%	0.4%
South Sudan	–	–	–	0.4%
Qatar	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
Kuwait	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
Benin	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%
Botswana	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
Trinidad & Tobago	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
Saudi Arabia	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
Bahrain	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Libya	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Brunei	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Turkmenistan	5.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Comoros	–	0.0%	7.3%	0.0%
Albania	86.4%	96.1%	100.0%	–
Ethiopia	88.4%	–	99.6%	–
Iceland	99.9%	99.9%	100.0%	–
Paraguay	100.0%	100.0%	–	–
Countries with data	131	181	185	186

Notes on reading this history

Yearly values come from the same World Bank indicator. The number of countries with data differs by year, so each year’s ranks are given only among the countries that have data that year. The ranking page uses each country’s latest year, so it may not match a single year’s ranking here.

Older years have fewer countries with data. See the “Countries with data” row in the table.

Source: Renewable electricity output (% of total electricity output), indicator EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS. Processed by this site. data.worldbank.org

World Bank data last updated: 2026-10-08