Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — Lower-middle-income countries

Wind share of electricity in lower-middle-income countries in 2024 — 3.18%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 3.04 pp.

2024 3.18% −0.09 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 3.27%2023
Period minimum 0.14%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — Lower-middle-income countries, 2000–2024012342000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0.14%2001: 0.19%2002: 0.18%2003: 0.21%2004: 0.38%2005: 0.42%2006: 0.59%2007: 0.71%2008: 0.85%2009: 0.93%2010: 1.06%2011: 1.21%2012: 1.32%2013: 1.45%2014: 1.55%2015: 1.57%2016: 1.91%2017: 2.16%2018: 2.42%2019: 2.6%2020: 2.58%2021: 2.83%2022: 2.9%2023: 3.27%2024: 3.18%
Change over the period: +3.04 pp Annual average: 0.13 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Lower-middle-income countries 3.18%
World computed 8.16%
Wind share of electricity — Lower-middle-income countries, by year Lower-middle-income countries All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 3.18 −0.09 pp
2023 3.27 +0.37 pp
2022 2.9 +0.07 pp
2021 2.83 +0.25 pp
2020 2.58 −0.01 pp
2019 2.6 +0.18 pp
2018 2.42 +0.27 pp
2017 2.16 +0.25 pp
2016 1.91 +0.34 pp
2015 1.57 +0.01 pp
2014 1.55 +0.1 pp
2013 1.45 +0.14 pp
2012 1.32 +0.11 pp
2011 1.21 +0.15 pp
2010 1.06 +0.13 pp
2009 0.93 +0.08 pp
2008 0.85 +0.14 pp
2007 0.71 +0.11 pp
2006 0.59 +0.18 pp
2005 0.42 +0.04 pp
2004 0.38 +0.16 pp
2003 0.21 +0.03 pp
2002 0.18 −0.01 pp
2001 0.19 +0.05 pp
2000 0.14

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.