Low-carbon electricity share of each country’s generation
Low-carbon sources made 41% of the world’s electricity in 2024. 37 of 193 countries got 80% or more of theirs from them.
Source: Ember2024Updated 9 Nov 2026
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Share of electricity from nuclear and renewables, 2024
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Summary
Nuclear and renewables made 41% of the world’s electricity in 2024, 1.6 percentage points more than in 2023. The highest: Albania 100%, Bhutan 100% and the Democratic Republic of the Congo 100%.
193 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. Low-carbon counts nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy and other renewables. A small system can reach a high share with one large dam.
Source: Ember2024Updated 9 Nov 2026
Countries and territories with data
| Albania | 100% | 100% | 0.0 pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | 100% | 100% | 0.0 pts |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 100% | 100% | 0.0 pts |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 100% | 0.0 pts |
| Nepal | 100% | 100% | 0.0 pts |
| Paraguay | 100% | 100% | 0.0 pts |
| Iceland | 100% | 100% | 0.0 pts |
| Costa Rica | 99.9% | 99.9% | 0.0 pts |
| Uruguay | 99% | 92% | +6.4 pts |
| Sweden | 99% | 99% | +0.2 pts |
| Norway | 99% | 98% | +0.1 pts |
| Switzerland | 98% | 98% | +0.1 pts |
| Namibia | 98% | 98% | −0.3 pts |
| Uganda | 97% | 97% | 0.0 pts |
| Eswatini | 97% | 97% | −0.2 pts |
| Malawi | 96% | 96% | 0.0 pts |
| Finland | 95% | 94% | +1.4 pts |
| Sierra Leone | 95% | 95% | 0.0 pts |
| France | 95% | 92% | +2.8 pts |
| Tajikistan | 95% | 94% | +0.4 pts |
| El Salvador | 92% | 88% | +4.0 pts |
| Kenya | 91% | 90% | +1.7 pts |
| Venezuela | 91% | 90% | +0.8 pts |
| Luxembourg | 91% | 89% | +1.5 pts |
| Brazil | 90% | 91% | −0.9 pts |
| Denmark | 89% | 86% | +2.8 pts |
| Kyrgyzstan | 89% | 86% | +2.3 pts |
| Zambia | 87% | 89% | −1.5 pts |
| Belize | 87% | 89% | −1.7 pts |
| Afghanistan | 87% | 87% | +0.3 pts |
| Austria | 86% | 85% | +1.5 pts |
| New Zealand | 86% | 90% | −3.6 pts |
| Slovakia | 86% | 85% | +1.0 pts |
| Portugal | 85% | 74% | +10.7 pts |
| Lithuania | 84% | 84% | +0.6 pts |
| Mozambique | 83% | 84% | −0.1 pts |
| Greenland | 83% | 82% | +1.4 pts |
| Georgia | 80% | 76% | +3.7 pts |
| Sudan | 80% | 81% | −1.3 pts |
| Canada | 77% | 79% | −1.3 pts |
| Spain | 77% | 72% | +4.9 pts |
| Laos | 77% | 77% | 0.0 pts |
| Belgium | 76% | 74% | +2.8 pts |
| Slovenia | 76% | 77% | −0.5 pts |
| Burundi | 76% | 76% | −0.5 pts |
| Guinea | 75% | 75% | +0.7 pts |
| Angola | 74% | 74% | −0.3 pts |
| Hungary | 74% | 71% | +2.4 pts |
| Latvia | 74% | 78% | −4.2 pts |
| Croatia | 73% | 70% | +3.3 pts |
| Cameroon | 73% | 73% | −0.1 pts |
| Ecuador | 72% | 74% | −1.2 pts |
| Bulgaria | 71% | 65% | +5.7 pts |
| Chile | 70% | 63% | +6.9 pts |
| Guatemala | 68% | 67% | +1.1 pts |
| Panama | 68% | 61% | +7.3 pts |
| Romania | 67% | 69% | −2.2 pts |
| United Kingdom | 65% | 60% | +4.6 pts |
| Fiji | 63% | 63% | 0.0 pts |
| North Korea | 63% | 63% | +0.7 pts |
| Nicaragua | 62% | 62% | 0.0 pts |
| Colombia | 61% | – | – |
| Armenia | 61% | 57% | +4.0 pts |
| Peru | 60% | 54% | +5.7 pts |
| Montenegro | 60% | 61% | −1.1 pts |
| Germany | 58% | 56% | +2.2 pts |
| Czechia | 58% | 55% | +2.9 pts |
| Zimbabwe | 57% | 56% | +1.0 pts |
| Pakistan | 56% | 52% | +4.6 pts |
| Estonia | 56% | 49% | +6.9 pts |
| Honduras | 55% | 54% | +1.1 pts |
| Liberia | 54% | 57% | −3.0 pts |
| Netherlands | 54% | 51% | +3.0 pts |
| Suriname | 53% | 53% | −0.3 pts |
| Sri Lanka | 52% | 49% | +3.1 pts |
| Italy | 50% | 45% | +5.6 pts |
| Cook Islands | 50% | 50% | 0.0 pts |
| Rwanda | 50% | 49% | +0.5 pts |
| Greece | 49% | 50% | −0.6 pts |
| Myanmar | 48% | 46% | +1.4 pts |
| Ireland | 47% | 45% | +1.2 pts |
| Türkiye | 46% | 42% | +3.6 pts |
| Lebanon | 44% | 34% | +9.7 pts |
| Samoa | 44% | 40% | +3.7 pts |
| Vietnam | 44% | 44% | −0.4 pts |
| Madagascar | 42% | 44% | −1.6 pts |
| United States | 42% | 41% | +1.0 pts |
| Argentina | 41% | 41% | +0.1 pts |
| South Korea | 41% | 39% | +2.0 pts |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 40% | 43% | −2.8 pts |
| North Macedonia | 39% | 32% | +7.3 pts |
| Palestine | 39% | 40% | −0.6 pts |
| China | 38% | 35% | +3.0 pts |
| Belarus | 37% | 31% | +6.0 pts |
| Ghana | 36% | 39% | −2.3 pts |
| Russia | 36% | 36% | −0.3 pts |
| Australia | 36% | 35% | +0.8 pts |
| Cambodia | 36% | 42% | −6.5 pts |
| Gabon | 35% | 36% | −0.1 pts |
| Djibouti | 35% | 35% | 0.0 pts |
| French Polynesia | 35% | 34% | +0.9 pts |
| Bolivia | 34% | 33% | +0.7 pts |
| Tanzania | 33% | 26% | +6.4 pts |
| Serbia | 32% | 35% | −2.9 pts |
| Poland | 31% | 28% | +3.4 pts |
| Japan | 31% | 30% | +1.3 pts |
| Cabo Verde | 31% | 28% | +2.8 pts |
| Macao | 31% | 33% | −2.6 pts |
| United Arab Emirates | 30% | 28% | +1.8 pts |
| Togo | 30% | 27% | +2.8 pts |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 29% | 30% | −1.2 pts |
| New Caledonia | 27% | 26% | +0.7 pts |
| Equatorial Guinea | 27% | 24% | +2.4 pts |
| Kiribati | 25% | 25% | 0.0 pts |
| Nigeria | 25% | 23% | +2.3 pts |
| Morocco | 24% | 22% | +2.7 pts |
| Jordan | 24% | 22% | +2.1 pts |
| Cyprus | 24% | 20% | +3.4 pts |
| Papua New Guinea | 24% | 24% | 0.0 pts |
| Mexico | 23% | 22% | +1.1 pts |
| Mauritania | 23% | 22% | +1.2 pts |
| India | 22% | 22% | +0.7 pts |
| Thailand | 22% | 22% | +0.1 pts |
| Somalia | 21% | 19% | +1.9 pts |
| Republic of the Congo | 21% | 24% | −2.6 pts |
| Philippines | 20% | 21% | −1.0 pts |
| Nauru | 20% | 0% | +20.0 pts |
| Senegal | 20% | 17% | +2.8 pts |
| Malaysia | 20% | 19% | +1.0 pts |
| Mali | 19% | 20% | −0.3 pts |
| Dominican Republic | 19% | 17% | +1.6 pts |
| Haiti | 19% | 22% | −3.7 pts |
| Mauritius | 18% | 17% | +0.5 pts |
| Burkina Faso | 17% | 16% | +1.2 pts |
| Aruba | 17% | 17% | 0.0 pts |
| Uzbekistan | 16% | 9.9% | +6.1 pts |
| Seychelles | 16% | 15% | +1.4 pts |
| South Africa | 16% | 16% | −0.2 pts |
| Malta | 16% | 14% | +1.9 pts |
| Taiwan | 15% | 15% | −0.1 pts |
| Kazakhstan | 15% | 13% | +2.1 pts |
| Indonesia | 15% | 15% | −0.3 pts |
| Tonga | 14% | 14% | 0.0 pts |
| Israel | 14% | 12% | +2.0 pts |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 13% | 13% | 0.0 pts |
| Jamaica | 13% | 12% | +0.4 pts |
| Egypt | 12% | 12% | +0.1 pts |
| Azerbaijan | 12% | 6.5% | +5.2 pts |
| Yemen | 11% | 10% | +1.1 pts |
| Eritrea | 11% | 10% | +0.9 pts |
| Moldova | 11% | 9.6% | +1.1 pts |
| Solomon Islands | 9.1% | 9.1% | 0.0 pts |
| Barbados | 9% | 8.2% | +0.8 pts |
| Mongolia | 8.8% | 9.2% | −0.3 pts |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 8.7% | 4.5% | +4.2 pts |
| Guam | 8.6% | 7.8% | +0.8 pts |
| Kosovo | 8.6% | 13% | −4.0 pts |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 8.1% | 5.6% | +2.6 pts |
| Iran | 7.1% | 8.2% | −1.1 pts |
| Maldives | 7.1% | 7.1% | 0.0 pts |
| Puerto Rico | 6% | 5.4% | +0.6 pts |
| American Samoa | 5.6% | 0% | +5.6 pts |
| Chad | 5.4% | 5.6% | −0.2 pts |
| Singapore | 4.9% | 4.5% | +0.4 pts |
| Oman | 4.9% | 4.9% | 0.0 pts |
| Tunisia | 4.4% | 3.9% | +0.5 pts |
| Cayman Islands | 4.2% | 2.9% | +1.4 pts |
| Qatar | 4% | 3.6% | +0.5 pts |
| Cuba | 4% | 3.6% | +0.4 pts |
| Benin | 4% | 3% | +1.0 pts |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 3.7% | 0% | +3.7 pts |
| Syria | 3.5% | 3.5% | 0.0 pts |
| Niger | 3.2% | 2.1% | +1.1 pts |
| Guyana | 2.9% | 2.9% | 0.0 pts |
| Saint Lucia | 2.5% | 2.5% | 0.0 pts |
| Saudi Arabia | 2.4% | 1.1% | +1.3 pts |
| Kuwait | 2.2% | 2.1% | +0.1 pts |
| Bangladesh | 1.9% | 1.7% | +0.2 pts |
| South Sudan | 1.8% | 1.8% | 0.0 pts |
| Iraq | 1.6% | 1.2% | +0.4 pts |
| Algeria | 1.1% | 0.9% | +0.1 pts |
| Hong Kong | 1% | 1% | +0.1 pts |
| Bahamas | 0.9% | 0.9% | 0.0 pts |
| Botswana | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0 pts |
| Bahrain | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.0 pts |
| Brunei | 0.2% | 0% | +0.2 pts |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0 pts |
| Turkmenistan | <0.1% | <0.1% | 0.0 pts |
| Libya | <0.1% | <0.1% | 0.0 pts |
| Gambia | 0% | 0% | 0.0 pts |
| Guinea-Bissau | 0% | 0% | 0.0 pts |
| Grenada | 0% | 0% | 0.0 pts |
| Montserrat | 0% | 0% | 0.0 pts |
Source: Ember2023 and 2024Updated 9 Nov 2026
World power mix
| Source | TWh | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Coal | 10,652 | 34% |
| Gas and oil | 7,790 | 25% |
| Hydro | 4,463 | 14% |
| Nuclear | 2,775 | 8.9% |
| Wind | 2,506 | 8.1% |
| Solar | 2,161 | 7% |
| Bioenergy and other | 724 | 2.3% |
| Total generated | 31,071 | 100% |
Source: Ember2024Updated 9 Nov 2026