This dashboard ranks countries/areas to their renewable energy power capacity or electricity generation. The data can be further refined based on region, technology or year of interest.
But how rapidly is our production of renewable energy changing? What technologies look most promising in transforming our energy mix? In this article we look at the data on renewable energy technologies across the world; what share of energy they account for today, and how quickly this is changing.
This interactive map shows the share of primary energy that comes from renewables (the sum of all renewable energy technologies) across the world. The share of energy we get from individual renewable technologies – solar, or wind, for example – is given in the sections below.
Renewable energy statistics 2023 provides datasets on power-generation capacity for 2013-2022, actual power generation for 2013-2021 and renewable energy balances for over 150 countries and areas for 2020-2021.
In 2020, the country produced nearly 861.3 billion kilowatt hours of renewable energy. The United States and Germany followed as the second and third largest producers, at 608 and 256.8
The leading countries for installed renewable energy in 2023 were China, the U.S., Brazil. China was the leader in renewable energy installations, with a capacity of around 1,453 gigawatts.
The data is collected from multi-country datasets (EIA, Eurostat, Energy Institute, UN) as well as national sources (e.g China data from the National Bureau of Statistics). Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy
Renewable electricity capacity additions reached an estimated 507 GW in 2023, almost 50% higher than in 2022, with continuous policy support in more than 130 countries spurring a significant change in the global growth trend. This worldwide acceleration in 2023 was driven mainly by year-on-year expansion in the People''s Republic of China''s
The share of renewables in the power mix is historically high in countries with large hydroelectricity resources such as Brazil, Colombia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden or Norway (over 2/3 of the electricity generated). In other countries, ambitious renewable policies and the falling electricity production costs for solar and wind technologies
Solar PV and wind are set to contribute two-thirds of renewables growth. China alone should account for almost half of the global increase in renewable electricity in 2021, followed by the United States, the European Union and India.