Clean electricity share — all countries

Clean electricity share — BRICS

Clean electricity share in BRICS in 2025 — 40.09%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 12.77 pp.

2025 40.09% +3.42 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 40.09%2025
Period minimum 24.11%2011

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Clean electricity share — BRICS, 2000–20252025303540452000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 27.32%2001: 27.42%2002: 26.53%2003: 25.19%2004: 26.05%2005: 25.42%2006: 24.83%2007: 24.41%2008: 25.55%2009: 25.09%2010: 25.12%2011: 24.11%2012: 25.43%2013: 25.4%2014: 26.39%2015: 27.65%2016: 28.88%2017: 29.38%2018: 29.94%2019: 31.59%2020: 32.98%2021: 32.89%2022: 34.47%2023: 34.75%2024: 36.68%2025: 40.09%
Change over the period: +12.77 pp Annual average: 0.51 pp
Clean electricity share — BRICS, by year BRICS All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 40.09 +3.42 pp
2024 36.68 +1.93 pp
2023 34.75 +0.28 pp
2022 34.47 +1.58 pp
2021 32.89 −0.09 pp
2020 32.98 +1.39 pp
2019 31.59 +1.65 pp
2018 29.94 +0.56 pp
2017 29.38 +0.5 pp
2016 28.88 +1.23 pp
2015 27.65 +1.26 pp
2014 26.39 +0.98 pp
2013 25.4 −0.02 pp
2012 25.43 +1.32 pp
2011 24.11 −1.02 pp
2010 25.12 +0.03 pp
2009 25.09 −0.46 pp
2008 25.55 +1.14 pp
2007 24.41 −0.42 pp
2006 24.83 −0.59 pp
2005 25.42 −0.63 pp
2004 26.05 +0.86 pp
2003 25.19 −1.34 pp
2002 26.53 −0.89 pp
2001 27.42 +0.09 pp
2000 27.32

About the indicator

The share of electricity from sources that emit nothing while they operate: all renewables together with nuclear generation. Ember calls such generation clean, and it is also described as low-carbon; the grouping is made on a single feature — the absence of carbon dioxide emissions per kilowatt-hour — and it has no bearing on any other property of nuclear power. The indicator is useful precisely because it does not depend on the choice between the two ways of doing without fuel: a country with a large nuclear program and a country with hydropower end up side by side.

Important: Renewables and nuclear together, on the criterion of no emissions while operating. It complements the fossil fuel share: together they come to about one hundred percent. Aggregates are weighted by generation and computed from 2000 onward.

Source: Yearly Electricity Data (Ember), license CC BY 4.0.