Clean electricity share — all countries

Clean electricity share — Southern Africa

Clean electricity share in Southern Africa in 2024 — 16.17%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 8.26 pp.

2024 16.17% −0.37 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 16.54%2023
Period minimum 6.23%2006

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Clean electricity share — Southern Africa, 2000–202451015202000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 7.91%2001: 7.05%2002: 7.57%2003: 6.84%2004: 6.85%2005: 6.35%2006: 6.23%2007: 6.52%2008: 6.65%2009: 6.9%2010: 6.76%2011: 7.13%2012: 6.55%2013: 7%2014: 7.93%2015: 8.3%2016: 9.89%2017: 11.1%2018: 10.1%2019: 11.1%2020: 11.39%2021: 13.47%2022: 14.77%2023: 16.54%2024: 16.17%
Change over the period: +8.26 pp Annual average: 0.34 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Southern Africa

Southern Africa 16.17%
World computed 40.83%
Clean electricity share — Southern Africa, by year Southern Africa All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 16.17 −0.37 pp
2023 16.54 +1.78 pp
2022 14.77 +1.3 pp
2021 13.47 +2.08 pp
2020 11.39 +0.29 pp
2019 11.1 +1 pp
2018 10.1 −0.99 pp
2017 11.1 +1.21 pp
2016 9.89 +1.59 pp
2015 8.3 +0.37 pp
2014 7.93 +0.93 pp
2013 7 +0.45 pp
2012 6.55 −0.58 pp
2011 7.13 +0.36 pp
2010 6.76 −0.14 pp
2009 6.9 +0.25 pp
2008 6.65 +0.13 pp
2007 6.52 +0.29 pp
2006 6.23 −0.12 pp
2005 6.35 −0.5 pp
2004 6.85 +0 pp
2003 6.84 −0.73 pp
2002 7.57 +0.53 pp
2001 7.05 −0.86 pp
2000 7.91

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.