Clean electricity share — all countries

Clean electricity share — Latin America & Caribbean

Clean electricity share in Latin America & Caribbean in 2024 — 64.76%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 2.66 pp.

2024 64.76% +0.38 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 64.76%2024
Period minimum 52.97%2015

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Clean electricity share — Latin America & Caribbean, 2000–2024505560652000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 62.11%2001: 59.7%2002: 60.04%2003: 59.56%2004: 59.03%2005: 59.73%2006: 60.09%2007: 59.36%2008: 58.98%2009: 59.52%2010: 58.2%2011: 59.38%2012: 56.43%2013: 54.22%2014: 53.27%2015: 52.97%2016: 54.78%2017: 56.23%2018: 57.42%2019: 57.28%2020: 60.49%2021: 59.63%2022: 63.97%2023: 64.39%2024: 64.76%
Change over the period: +2.66 pp Annual average: 0.11 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Latin America & Caribbean

Latin America & Caribbean 64.76%
World computed 40.83%
Clean electricity share — Latin America & Caribbean, by year Latin America & Caribbean All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 64.76 +0.38 pp
2023 64.39 +0.42 pp
2022 63.97 +4.34 pp
2021 59.63 −0.86 pp
2020 60.49 +3.21 pp
2019 57.28 −0.14 pp
2018 57.42 +1.18 pp
2017 56.23 +1.45 pp
2016 54.78 +1.81 pp
2015 52.97 −0.3 pp
2014 53.27 −0.96 pp
2013 54.22 −2.2 pp
2012 56.43 −2.96 pp
2011 59.38 +1.18 pp
2010 58.2 −1.32 pp
2009 59.52 +0.54 pp
2008 58.98 −0.38 pp
2007 59.36 −0.73 pp
2006 60.09 +0.36 pp
2005 59.73 +0.7 pp
2004 59.03 −0.53 pp
2003 59.56 −0.48 pp
2002 60.04 +0.34 pp
2001 59.7 −2.41 pp
2000 62.11

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.