Renewable Electricity Generation by Country

Renewable electricity generation by country measures the amount of electricity generated from renewable sources in each country, measured in quadrillion British thermal units (quad Btu) per year. The statistics are based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) International Energy Statistics. The table covers 162 countries with a reported 2024 value, from 2019 to 2024. The World total stood at 34.55 quad Btu in 2024, up from 31.37 in 2023.

Renewable electricity generation measures the electricity produced from renewable sources, as reported in the EIA dataset.

Renewable Electricity Generation by Country

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#	Country	2024 (quad Btu)
1	China CN	11.88
2	United States US	4.22
3	Brazil BR	2.22
4	India IN	1.41
5	Canada CA	1.38
6	Germany DE	0.95
7	Japan JP	0.78
8	Russia RU	0.78
9	Spain ES	0.53
10	Türkiye TR	0.53
11	Norway NO	0.53
12	France FR	0.51
13	Vietnam VN	0.5
14	United Kingdom GB	0.48
15	Italy IT	0.44
16	Sweden SE	0.41
17	Australia AU	0.35
18	Colombia CO	0.28
19	Mexico MX	0.25
20	Venezuela VE	0.25
21	Indonesia ID	0.24
22	Netherlands NL	0.22
23	Austria AT	0.21
24	Chile CL	0.21
25	South Korea KR	0.19
26	Argentina AR	0.19
27	Paraguay PY	0.18
28	Switzerland CH	0.18
29	Pakistan PK	0.17
30	Poland PL	0.17
31	Finland FI	0.15
32	Laos LA	0.14
33	Portugal PT	0.14
34	Malaysia MY	0.13
35	New Zealand NZ	0.13
36	Thailand TH	0.12
37	Peru PE	0.12
38	Taiwan TW	0.12
39	South Africa ZA	0.11
40	Denmark DK	0.11
41	Belgium BE	0.09
42	Egypt EG	0.09
43	Romania RO	0.09
44	Greece GR	0.09
45	Philippines PH	0.09
46	Ecuador EC	0.08
47	Tajikistan TJ	0.07
48	Iran IR	0.07
49	Iceland IS	0.07
50	Zambia ZM	0.06
51	North Korea KP	0.06
52	Ethiopia ET	0.06
53	Mozambique MZ	0.06
54	Kazakhstan KZ	0.06
55	DR Congo CD	0.05
56	Ukraine UA	0.05
57	Ireland IE	0.05
58	Kyrgyzstan KG	0.05
59	Czech Republic CZ	0.05
60	Uruguay UY	0.05
61	Hungary HU	0.04
62	Serbia RS	0.04
63	Kenya KE	0.04
64	Sudan SD	0.04
65	Bulgaria BG	0.04
66	Angola AO	0.04
67	Nepal NP	0.04
68	Georgia GE	0.04
69	Bhutan BT	0.04
70	Costa Rica CR	0.04
71	Guatemala GT	0.04
72	Croatia HR	0.04
73	Myanmar MM	0.04
74	Morocco MA	0.04
75	Nigeria NG	0.03
76	Panama PA	0.03
77	United Arab Emirates AE	0.03
78	Sri Lanka LK	0.03
79	Ghana GH	0.03
80	Uzbekistan UZ	0.03
81	Albania AL	0.03
82	Israel IL	0.03
83	Cambodia KH	0.03
84	Slovenia SI	0.03
85	Honduras HN	0.02
86	Slovakia SK	0.02
87	El Salvador SV	0.02
88	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	0.02
89	Zimbabwe ZW	0.02
90	Jordan JO	0.02
91	Uganda UG	0.02
92	Cameroon CM	0.02
93	Lithuania LT	0.02
94	Bolivia BO	0.02
95	Dominican Republic DO	0.02
96	Latvia LV	0.01
97	Estonia EE	0.01
98	Azerbaijan AZ	0.01
99	Saudi Arabia SA	0.01
100	Singapore SG	0.01
101	Ivory Coast CI	0.01
102	Guinea GN	0.01
103	Tanzania TZ	0.01
104	Armenia AM	0.01
105	Nicaragua NI	0.01
106	Iraq IQ	0.01
107	Montenegro ME	0.01
108	North Macedonia MK	0.01
109	Lebanon LB	0.01
110	Qatar QA	0.01
111	Kuwait KW	0.01
112	Oman OM	0.01
113	Bangladesh BD	0.01
114	Malawi MW	0.01
115	Namibia NA	0.01
116	Senegal SN	0.01
117	Belarus BY	0
118	Luxembourg LU	0
119	Cyprus CY	0
120	Puerto Rico PR	0
121	Mali ML	0
122	Congo CG	0
123	Papua New Guinea PG	0
124	Algeria DZ	0
125	Madagascar MG	0
126	Tunisia TN	0
127	Gabon GA	0
128	Suriname SR	0
129	Syria SY	0
130	Afghanistan AF	0
131	New Caledonia NC	0
132	Kosovo XK	0
133	Mongolia MN	0
134	Cuba CU	0
135	Fiji FJ	0
136	Moldova MD	0
137	Jamaica JM	0
138	Mauritius MU	0
139	Yemen YE	0
140	Eswatini SZ	0
141	Rwanda RW	0
142	Greenland GL	0
143	Mauritania MR	0
144	Belize BZ	0
145	Equatorial Guinea GQ	0
146	Palestine PS	0
147	Hong Kong HK	0
148	Burundi BI	0
149	Malta MT	0
150	Liberia LR	0
151	Burkina Faso BF	0
152	French Polynesia PF	0
153	Macau MO	0
154	Faroe Islands FO	0
155	Sierra Leone SL	0
156	Togo TG	0
157	Aruba AW	0
158	Haiti HT	0
159	Cape Verde CV	0
160	Guam GU	0
161	Central African Republic CF	0
162	Lesotho LS	0

China alone accounted for about 34 percent of the World total in 2024, and China and the United States together for about 47 percent; the top three countries accounted for about 53 percent, the top five for about 61 percent, and the top ten for about 71 percent. China's renewable electricity generation was about 2.8 times that of the United States, the second-largest generator.

Countries With the Largest Renewable Electricity Generation in 2024

China generated the most renewable electricity in 2024 with 11.88 quad Btu. The United States ranked second with 4.22 quad Btu, followed by Brazil (2.22), India (1.41), Canada (1.38), Germany (0.95), Japan (0.78), Russia (0.78), Spain (0.53), and Türkiye (0.53).

Renewable Electricity Generation Around the World

In Asia, China (11.88) leads by a wide margin, ahead of India (1.41) and Japan (0.78); Vietnam (0.50) and Türkiye (0.53) also report notable volumes. In Europe, Germany (0.95) is the largest generator, ahead of Norway (0.53), Spain (0.53), France (0.51) and Sweden (0.41).

In North America, the United States (4.22) dominates, followed by Canada (1.38) and Mexico (0.25). In South America, Brazil (2.22) leads, ahead of Colombia (0.28) and Venezuela (0.25). In Africa, Mozambique (0.06) and Zambia (0.06) report the largest volumes among the limited data, while values remain small compared with global totals.

Global Structure in This Dataset

Renewable electricity generation figures are concentrated among the largest generators: the top five generators account for about 61 percent of World generation in 2024, while the top ten account for about 71 percent. The overall distribution remained broadly similar between 2019 and 2024, with China remaining the largest generator in every year shown.

Largest Changes in Renewable Electricity Generation, 2023-2024

China recorded the largest increase among the listed countries, rising from 9.96 quad Btu in 2023 to 11.88 in 2024 (up 1.91, about 19.2 percent). The United States rose by 0.29, Brazil by 0.09, and India by 0.07.

Japan recorded the largest decline, falling from 0.83 to 0.78 quad Btu (down 0.06, about 6.9 percent). Canada fell from 1.41 to 1.38 (down 0.03), while Romania declined by 0.01. The World total rose from 31.37 to 34.55 quad Btu (up 3.18, about 10.1 percent).

The trend between 2019 and 2024 shows variations across countries, with some recording steady growth and others experiencing fluctuations.

Total and Ratio Analysis for 2019-2024

The World total for renewable electricity generation moved between 24.81 and 34.55 quad Btu in this period. It was 24.81 in 2019, 26.46 in 2020, 27.91 in 2021, 29.96 in 2022, 31.37 in 2023, and then 34.55 in 2024.

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#	Country	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
1	China	6.86	7.5	8.29	9.16	9.96	11.88
2	United States	3.34	3.53	3.66	3.95	3.93	4.22
3	Brazil	1.77	1.79	1.74	2.03	2.13	2.22
4	India	1.03	1.06	1.15	1.28	1.34	1.41
5	Canada	1.44	1.47	1.47	1.52	1.41	1.38
6	Germany	0.83	0.87	0.81	0.88	0.92	0.95
7	Japan	0.68	0.74	0.79	0.79	0.83	0.78
8	Russia	0.68	0.75	0.77	0.72	0.73	0.78
9	Spain	0.34	0.39	0.42	0.41	0.47	0.53
10	Türkiye	0.44	0.43	0.39	0.46	0.45	0.53
11	Norway	0.44	0.52	0.53	0.49	0.51	0.53
12	France	0.39	0.44	0.42	0.39	0.48	0.51
13	Vietnam	0.25	0.29	0.38	0.47	0.49	0.5
14	United Kingdom	0.43	0.48	0.44	0.49	0.46	0.48
15	Italy	0.4	0.4	0.39	0.34	0.39	0.44
16	Sweden	0.34	0.39	0.39	0.42	0.39	0.41
17	Australia	0.2	0.22	0.27	0.3	0.33	0.35
18	Colombia	0.19	0.17	0.22	0.21	0.2	0.28
19	Mexico	0.19	0.22	0.25	0.25	0.22	0.25
20	Venezuela	0.17	0.21	0.22	0.22	0.22	0.25
21	Indonesia	0.17	0.19	0.2	0.23	0.24	0.24
22	Netherlands	0.08	0.12	0.14	0.17	0.2	0.22
23	Austria	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.17	0.19	0.21
24	Chile	0.13	0.14	0.15	0.17	0.19	0.21
25	South Korea	0.1	0.12	0.13	0.16	0.17	0.19
26	Argentina	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.15	0.14	0.19
27	Paraguay	0.17	0.16	0.14	0.15	0.15	0.18
28	Switzerland	0.14	0.15	0.15	0.13	0.16	0.18
29	Pakistan	0.13	0.13	0.14	0.15	0.15	0.17
30	Poland	0.09	0.1	0.11	0.13	0.16	0.17
31	Finland	0.11	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.14	0.15
32	Laos	0.07	0.1	0.11	0.13	0.14	0.14
33	Portugal	0.09	0.1	0.11	0.09	0.12	0.14
34	Malaysia	0.1	0.11	0.13	0.13	0.13	0.13
35	New Zealand	0.12	0.12	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.13
36	Thailand	0.12	0.1	0.11	0.12	0.12	0.12
37	Peru	0.12	0.11	0.12	0.11	0.11	0.12
38	Taiwan	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.08	0.09	0.12
39	South Africa	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.08	0.1	0.11
40	Denmark	0.08	0.08	0.09	0.1	0.1	0.11
41	Belgium	0.07	0.08	0.08	0.09	0.1	0.09
42	Egypt	0.08	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.09
43	Romania	0.08	0.08	0.09	0.08	0.1	0.09
44	Greece	0.06	0.06	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.09
45	Philippines	0.08	0.07	0.08	0.08	0.09	0.09
46	Ecuador	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.08
47	Tajikistan	0.07	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.07	0.07
48	Iran	0.11	0.08	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.07
49	Iceland	0.07	0.06	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07
50	Zambia	0.04	0.04	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06
51	North Korea	0.04	0.04	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06
52	Ethiopia	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.06
53	Mozambique	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.06
54	Kazakhstan	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.06
55	DR Congo	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
56	Ukraine	0.05	0.06	0.07	0.05	0.06	0.05
57	Ireland	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.05
58	Kyrgyzstan	0.05	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05
59	Czech Republic	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05
60	Uruguay	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.04	0.05
61	Hungary	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.04
62	Serbia	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.04
63	Kenya	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
64	Sudan	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
65	Bulgaria	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.04
66	Angola	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
67	Nepal	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.04
68	Georgia	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
69	Bhutan	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
70	Costa Rica	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
71	Guatemala	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.04
72	Croatia	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.04
73	Myanmar	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.04
74	Morocco	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.04
75	Nigeria	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
76	Panama	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
77	United Arab Emirates	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03
78	Sri Lanka	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
79	Ghana	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
80	Uzbekistan	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03
81	Albania	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.03
82	Israel	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.03
83	Cambodia	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03
84	Slovenia	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.03
85	Honduras	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
86	Slovakia	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
87	El Salvador	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
88	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
89	Zimbabwe	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
90	Jordan	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
91	Uganda	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
92	Cameroon	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
93	Lithuania	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
94	Bolivia	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
95	Dominican Republic	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02
96	Latvia	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01
97	Estonia	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
98	Azerbaijan	0.01	0	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
99	Saudi Arabia	0	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.01
100	Singapore	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
101	Ivory Coast	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
102	Guinea	0	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
103	Tanzania	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
104	Armenia	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
105	Nicaragua	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
106	Iraq	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
107	Montenegro	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
108	North Macedonia	0	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
109	Lebanon	0	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.01
110	Qatar	0	0	0	0	0.01	0.01
111	Kuwait	0	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.01
112	Oman	0	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.01
113	Bangladesh	0	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.01
114	Malawi	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
115	Namibia	0	0.01	0.01	0	0.01	0.01
116	Senegal	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
117	Belarus	0	0	0	0	0	0
118	Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0
119	Cyprus	0	0	0	0	0	0
120	Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0	0	0
121	Mali	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0	0
122	Congo	0	0	0	0	0	0
123	Papua New Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0
124	Algeria	0	0	0	0	0	0
125	Madagascar	0	0	0	0	0	0
126	Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0	0
127	Gabon	0	0	0	0.01	0	0
128	Suriname	0	0	0	0	0	0
129	Syria	0	0	0	0	0	0
130	Afghanistan	0	0	0	0	0	0
131	New Caledonia	0	0	0	0	0	0
132	Kosovo	0	0	0	0	0	0
133	Mongolia	0	0	0	0	0	0
134	Cuba	0	0	0	0	0	0
135	Fiji	0	0	0	0	0	0
136	Moldova	0	0	0	0	0	0
137	Jamaica	0	0	0	0	0	0
138	Mauritius	0	0	0	0	0	0
139	Yemen	0	0	0	0	0	0
140	Eswatini	0	0	0	0	0	0
141	Rwanda	0	0	0	0	0	0
142	Greenland	0	0	0	0	0	0
143	Mauritania	0	0	0	0	0	0
144	Belize	0	0	0	0	0	0
145	Equatorial Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0
146	Palestine	0	0	0	0	0	0
147	Hong Kong	0	0	0	0	0	0
148	Burundi	0	0	0	0	0	0
149	Malta	0	0	0	0	0	0
150	Liberia	0	0	0	0	0	0
151	Burkina Faso	0	0	0	0	0	0
152	French Polynesia	0	0	0	0	0	0
153	Macau	0	0	0	0	0	0
154	Faroe Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
155	Sierra Leone	0	0	0	0	0	0
156	Togo	0	0	0	0	0	0
157	Aruba	0	0	0	0	0	0
158	Haiti	0	0	0	0	0	0
159	Cape Verde	0	0	0	0	0	0
160	Guam	0	0	0	0	0	0
161	Central African Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0
162	Lesotho	0	0	0	0	0	0

Methodology

The statistics are based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) International Energy Statistics. Values refer to renewable electricity generation, in quadrillion British thermal units (quad Btu) per year as in the source, and 2024 figures are from the INTL.29-12 series where listed. Where no value is available, the cell is left empty. A value of 0 indicates that the source reports zero. The sum of individually listed countries does not equal the World total where shown, because the source includes estimates and rounding. This page covers renewable electricity generation only and does not include other indicators, which are reported separately in the source.