Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — Mauritania

Wind share of electricity in Mauritania in 2024 — 4.83%. Ranked 50 in the world out of 193. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 4.83 pp.

2024 4.83% +0.05 pp vs 2023
World rank 50of 193
Period maximum 8.62%2015
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — Mauritania, 2000–202402.557.5102000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0%2011: 0%2012: 0%2013: 1.02%2014: 0.97%2015: 8.62%2016: 8.62%2017: 7.41%2018: 6.85%2019: 7.64%2020: 7.36%2021: 6.33%2022: 6.1%2023: 4.78%2024: 4.83%
Change over the period: +4.83 pp Annual average: 0.2 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Mauritania

Mauritania 4.83%
World computed 8.16%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 2.77%
Western Africa computed 0.6%
Wind share of electricity — Mauritania, by year Mauritania All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 4.83 +0.05 pp
2023 4.78 −1.32 pp
2022 6.1 −0.23 pp
2021 6.33 −1.03 pp
2020 7.36 −0.28 pp
2019 7.64 +0.79 pp
2018 6.85 −0.56 pp
2017 7.41 −1.21 pp
2016 8.62 +0 pp
2015 8.62 +7.65 pp
2014 0.97 −0.05 pp
2013 1.02 +1.02 pp
2012 0 +0 pp
2011 0 +0 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.