Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — Euro area

Wind share of electricity in the Euro area in 2025 — 17.29%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 16.47 pp.

2025 17.29% −0.49 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 17.98%2023
Period minimum 0.82%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — Euro area, 2000–2025051015202000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0.82%2001: 1.02%2002: 1.4%2003: 1.68%2004: 2.14%2005: 2.58%2006: 2.99%2007: 3.78%2008: 4.27%2009: 4.96%2010: 5.24%2011: 6.1%2012: 6.87%2013: 7.5%2014: 7.96%2015: 9.14%2016: 9.25%2017: 10.79%2018: 11.42%2019: 13.19%2020: 14.79%2021: 13.82%2022: 15.41%2023: 17.98%2024: 17.78%2025: 17.29%
Change over the period: +16.47 pp Annual average: 0.66 pp
Wind share of electricity — Euro area, by year Euro area All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 17.29 −0.49 pp
2024 17.78 −0.21 pp
2023 17.98 +2.57 pp
2022 15.41 +1.6 pp
2021 13.82 −0.97 pp
2020 14.79 +1.59 pp
2019 13.19 +1.77 pp
2018 11.42 +0.63 pp
2017 10.79 +1.54 pp
2016 9.25 +0.11 pp
2015 9.14 +1.18 pp
2014 7.96 +0.46 pp
2013 7.5 +0.63 pp
2012 6.87 +0.77 pp
2011 6.1 +0.86 pp
2010 5.24 +0.28 pp
2009 4.96 +0.69 pp
2008 4.27 +0.49 pp
2007 3.78 +0.79 pp
2006 2.99 +0.41 pp
2005 2.58 +0.44 pp
2004 2.14 +0.46 pp
2003 1.68 +0.27 pp
2002 1.4 +0.39 pp
2001 1.02 +0.19 pp
2000 0.82

About the indicator

The share of electricity generated by wind farms. Wind generation is older than solar and in most countries still larger: worldwide, wind yields about twice as much electricity. The largest shares are in countries with a long coastline and open spaces; in Denmark more than half of generation comes from wind, and that made it the first country in the world to work out how to run a power system dominated by a variable source — through links with its neighbors and flexible demand.

Important: The World Bank has no separate series for wind — it sits inside “other renewables”. Aggregates for groups of countries are weighted by generation in terawatt-hours and computed from 2000 onward.

Source: Yearly Electricity Data (Ember), license CC BY 4.0.