Clean electricity share — all countries

Clean electricity share — OECD

Clean electricity share in the OECD in 2025 — 52.09%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 12.71 pp.

2025 52.09% +0.46 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 52.09%2025
Period minimum 37.09%2007

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Clean electricity share — OECD, 2000–202535404550552000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 39.38%2001: 38.97%2002: 38.83%2003: 37.57%2004: 38.4%2005: 38.06%2006: 38.45%2007: 37.09%2008: 37.83%2009: 39.39%2010: 39.33%2011: 39.42%2012: 38.56%2013: 39.88%2014: 40.89%2015: 41.7%2016: 42.27%2017: 43.2%2018: 43.81%2019: 45.57%2020: 47.77%2021: 47.68%2022: 47.71%2023: 50.08%2024: 51.62%2025: 52.09%
Change over the period: +12.71 pp Annual average: 0.51 pp
Clean electricity share — OECD, by year OECD All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 52.09 +0.46 pp
2024 51.62 +1.55 pp
2023 50.08 +2.37 pp
2022 47.71 +0.03 pp
2021 47.68 −0.09 pp
2020 47.77 +2.21 pp
2019 45.57 +1.76 pp
2018 43.81 +0.6 pp
2017 43.2 +0.93 pp
2016 42.27 +0.58 pp
2015 41.7 +0.81 pp
2014 40.89 +1.01 pp
2013 39.88 +1.32 pp
2012 38.56 −0.86 pp
2011 39.42 +0.09 pp
2010 39.33 −0.06 pp
2009 39.39 +1.56 pp
2008 37.83 +0.74 pp
2007 37.09 −1.36 pp
2006 38.45 +0.39 pp
2005 38.06 −0.35 pp
2004 38.4 +0.83 pp
2003 37.57 −1.26 pp
2002 38.83 −0.14 pp
2001 38.97 −0.4 pp
2000 39.38

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.