Clean electricity share — all countries

Clean electricity share — Central America

Clean electricity share in Central America in 2024 — 32.03%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 3.52 pp.

2024 32.03% +1.02 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 36.7%2021
Period minimum 21.81%2003

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Clean electricity share — Central America, 2000–202420253035402000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 28.51%2001: 25.22%2002: 23.83%2003: 21.81%2004: 23.01%2005: 24.08%2006: 24.31%2007: 22.94%2008: 26.58%2009: 22.64%2010: 25.17%2011: 24.81%2012: 23.99%2013: 24.01%2014: 26.86%2015: 25.97%2016: 25.56%2017: 26.52%2018: 27.38%2019: 26.7%2020: 32.48%2021: 36.7%2022: 35.72%2023: 31.01%2024: 32.03%
Change over the period: +3.52 pp Annual average: 0.15 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Central America

Central America 32.03%
World computed 40.83%
Clean electricity share — Central America, by year Central America All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 32.03 +1.02 pp
2023 31.01 −4.71 pp
2022 35.72 −0.98 pp
2021 36.7 +4.22 pp
2020 32.48 +5.78 pp
2019 26.7 −0.69 pp
2018 27.38 +0.86 pp
2017 26.52 +0.96 pp
2016 25.56 −0.41 pp
2015 25.97 −0.9 pp
2014 26.86 +2.86 pp
2013 24.01 +0.02 pp
2012 23.99 −0.83 pp
2011 24.81 −0.36 pp
2010 25.17 +2.54 pp
2009 22.64 −3.94 pp
2008 26.58 +3.63 pp
2007 22.94 −1.36 pp
2006 24.31 +0.22 pp
2005 24.08 +1.07 pp
2004 23.01 +1.2 pp
2003 21.81 −2.02 pp
2002 23.83 −1.39 pp
2001 25.22 −3.29 pp
2000 28.51

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.