Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — Low-income countries

Wind share of electricity in low-income countries in 2024 — 0.45%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 0.45 pp.

2024 0.45% +0.07 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 0.69%2015
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — Low-income countries, 2000–202400.20.40.60.82000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0%2011: 0.02%2012: 0.16%2013: 0.32%2014: 0.44%2015: 0.69%2016: 0.65%2017: 0.45%2018: 0.42%2019: 0.65%2020: 0.47%2021: 0.6%2022: 0.41%2023: 0.38%2024: 0.45%
Change over the period: +0.45 pp Annual average: 0.02 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Low-income countries 0.45%
World computed 8.16%
Wind share of electricity — Low-income countries, by year Low-income countries All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 0.45 +0.07 pp
2023 0.38 −0.02 pp
2022 0.41 −0.19 pp
2021 0.6 +0.13 pp
2020 0.47 −0.18 pp
2019 0.65 +0.23 pp
2018 0.42 −0.03 pp
2017 0.45 −0.2 pp
2016 0.65 −0.03 pp
2015 0.69 +0.24 pp
2014 0.44 +0.13 pp
2013 0.32 +0.15 pp
2012 0.16 +0.14 pp
2011 0.02 +0.02 pp
2010 0 +0 pp
2009 0 +0 pp
2008 0 +0 pp
2007 0 +0 pp
2006 0 +0 pp
2005 0 +0 pp
2004 0 +0 pp
2003 0 +0 pp
2002 0 +0 pp
2001 0 +0 pp
2000 0

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.