Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — OECD

Wind share of electricity in the OECD in 2025 — 10.74%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 10.44 pp.

2025 10.74% +0.01 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 10.74%2025
Period minimum 0.3%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — OECD, 2000–20250510152000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0.3%2001: 0.37%2002: 0.5%2003: 0.59%2004: 0.77%2005: 0.92%2006: 1.13%2007: 1.41%2008: 1.77%2009: 2.21%2010: 2.51%2011: 3.1%2012: 3.58%2013: 4.13%2014: 4.48%2015: 5.21%2016: 5.6%2017: 6.4%2018: 6.72%2019: 7.61%2020: 8.77%2021: 8.87%2022: 9.87%2023: 10.45%2024: 10.73%2025: 10.74%
Change over the period: +10.44 pp Annual average: 0.42 pp
Wind share of electricity — OECD, by year OECD All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 10.74 +0.01 pp
2024 10.73 +0.28 pp
2023 10.45 +0.58 pp
2022 9.87 +1 pp
2021 8.87 +0.09 pp
2020 8.77 +1.17 pp
2019 7.61 +0.89 pp
2018 6.72 +0.32 pp
2017 6.4 +0.8 pp
2016 5.6 +0.39 pp
2015 5.21 +0.73 pp
2014 4.48 +0.35 pp
2013 4.13 +0.55 pp
2012 3.58 +0.48 pp
2011 3.1 +0.58 pp
2010 2.51 +0.3 pp
2009 2.21 +0.44 pp
2008 1.77 +0.36 pp
2007 1.41 +0.28 pp
2006 1.13 +0.21 pp
2005 0.92 +0.15 pp
2004 0.77 +0.17 pp
2003 0.59 +0.1 pp
2002 0.5 +0.13 pp
2001 0.37 +0.06 pp
2000 0.3

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.