Clean electricity share — all countries

Clean electricity share — Upper-middle-income countries

Clean electricity share in upper-middle-income countries in 2024 — 38.8%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 9.32 pp.

2024 38.8% +2.19 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 38.8%2024
Period minimum 24.43%2007

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Clean electricity share — Upper-middle-income countries, 2000–202420253035402000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 29.48%2001: 28.84%2002: 28.39%2003: 26.71%2004: 26.8%2005: 26.33%2006: 25.47%2007: 24.43%2008: 26.42%2009: 25.77%2010: 26.14%2011: 24.74%2012: 26.39%2013: 26.06%2014: 27.08%2015: 28.89%2016: 30.39%2017: 30.83%2018: 31.6%2019: 33.08%2020: 34.28%2021: 34.51%2022: 36.28%2023: 36.61%2024: 38.8%
Change over the period: +9.32 pp Annual average: 0.39 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Upper-middle-income countries

Upper-middle-income countries 38.8%
World computed 40.83%
Clean electricity share — Upper-middle-income countries, by year Upper-middle-income countries All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 38.8 +2.19 pp
2023 36.61 +0.32 pp
2022 36.28 +1.77 pp
2021 34.51 +0.23 pp
2020 34.28 +1.2 pp
2019 33.08 +1.48 pp
2018 31.6 +0.77 pp
2017 30.83 +0.44 pp
2016 30.39 +1.5 pp
2015 28.89 +1.8 pp
2014 27.08 +1.02 pp
2013 26.06 −0.33 pp
2012 26.39 +1.65 pp
2011 24.74 −1.4 pp
2010 26.14 +0.38 pp
2009 25.77 −0.65 pp
2008 26.42 +1.99 pp
2007 24.43 −1.05 pp
2006 25.47 −0.86 pp
2005 26.33 −0.47 pp
2004 26.8 +0.09 pp
2003 26.71 −1.68 pp
2002 28.39 −0.45 pp
2001 28.84 −0.64 pp
2000 29.48

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.