Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — G20

Wind share of electricity in the G20 in 2025 — 9.46%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 9.29 pp.

2025 9.46% +0.84 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 9.46%2025
Period minimum 0.16%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — G20, 2000–202502.557.5102000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0.16%2001: 0.2%2002: 0.27%2003: 0.31%2004: 0.41%2005: 0.47%2006: 0.61%2007: 0.76%2008: 1%2009: 1.29%2010: 1.55%2011: 1.97%2012: 2.35%2013: 2.73%2014: 2.98%2015: 3.51%2016: 4.06%2017: 4.73%2018: 5.1%2019: 5.59%2020: 6.3%2021: 7.04%2022: 7.8%2023: 8.33%2024: 8.61%2025: 9.46%
Change over the period: +9.29 pp Annual average: 0.37 pp
Wind share of electricity — G20, by year G20 All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 9.46 +0.84 pp
2024 8.61 +0.28 pp
2023 8.33 +0.53 pp
2022 7.8 +0.76 pp
2021 7.04 +0.75 pp
2020 6.3 +0.7 pp
2019 5.59 +0.49 pp
2018 5.1 +0.37 pp
2017 4.73 +0.67 pp
2016 4.06 +0.56 pp
2015 3.51 +0.52 pp
2014 2.98 +0.25 pp
2013 2.73 +0.38 pp
2012 2.35 +0.38 pp
2011 1.97 +0.41 pp
2010 1.55 +0.26 pp
2009 1.29 +0.3 pp
2008 1 +0.24 pp
2007 0.76 +0.15 pp
2006 0.61 +0.14 pp
2005 0.47 +0.06 pp
2004 0.41 +0.1 pp
2003 0.31 +0.04 pp
2002 0.27 +0.08 pp
2001 0.2 +0.03 pp
2000 0.16

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.