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Indicators / Energy and CO₂

Renewables in electricity

% · World Bank World Development Indicators, EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS

Countries with any figure: 208
Years: 1990–2021
Compare on: 2021 203 countries
Newest year: 2021 203 countries
Every year: 121 countries
Stop before 2021: 5 countries

Statistical offices report at different speeds, so the newest year usually has fewer countries than the years before it. A country's "latest" figure elsewhere on this site can therefore be from different years for different countries; rankings only compare countries with a figure for the same year.

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Countries with a figure for Renewables in electricity, each yearThe best-covered year has 205 countries. 2021 is the last year with at least 90% of that (203); 2021 has 203.

Show the numbers (32 rows)

Year	Countries with a figure
2021	203
2020	203
2019	202
2018	202
2017	202
2016	204
2015	204
2014	202
2013	201
2012	205
2011	201
2010	202
2009	202
2008	199
2007	201
2006	201
2005	201
2004	198
2003	198
2002	198
2001	196
2000	198
1999	136
1998	136
1997	136
1996	136
1995	136
1994	135
1993	135
1992	135
1991	134
1990	133

Which countries have figures for Renewables in electricity, by year208 countries have at least one figure from 1990 to 2021; 121 have every year, 14 have gaps, and 5 stop before 2021.

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Years with a figure
Country stops before 2021
End of 2021, the last year at least 90% of countries report

Countries with no figure since before 2021

Country	Last figure	Years with a figure
Albania	2011	1990–2007, 2009–2011
Paraguay	2012	1990–2003, 2005, 2012
Gibraltar	2015	1990–2015
Iceland	2016	1990–2016
Ethiopia	2020	1990–1999, 2007–2011, 2014–2020

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curl https://visualizedata.org/data/indicators/renewable-electricity-share.json

The World Bank API it comes from (live, no key):

curl "https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS?format=json&per_page=30000&date=1960:2030"

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Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators: EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS (CC BY 4.0)
Updated several times a year; each indicator has its own latest year.
Countries are the datasites geo registry's; regional and income-group aggregates are left out.
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