Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — South Korea

Wind share of electricity in South Korea in 2025 — 0.58%. Ranked 70 in the world out of 89. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 0.57 pp.

2025 0.58% +0.04 pp vs 2024
World rank 70of 89
Period maximum 0.58%2025
Period minimum 0%2001

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — South Korea, 2000–202500.20.40.62000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0.01%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0.01%2004: 0.01%2005: 0.03%2006: 0.06%2007: 0.09%2008: 0.1%2009: 0.15%2010: 0.17%2011: 0.17%2012: 0.17%2013: 0.21%2014: 0.21%2015: 0.24%2016: 0.3%2017: 0.38%2018: 0.41%2019: 0.46%2020: 0.55%2021: 0.52%2022: 0.54%2023: 0.55%2024: 0.54%2025: 0.58%
Change over the period: +0.57 pp Annual average: 0.02 pp

Comparison, 2025

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

South Korea 0.58%
Eastern Asia computed 9.29%
Wind share of electricity — South Korea, by year South Korea All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 0.58 +0.04 pp
2024 0.54 −0.01 pp
2023 0.55 +0.01 pp
2022 0.54 +0.02 pp
2021 0.52 −0.03 pp
2020 0.55 +0.09 pp
2019 0.46 +0.05 pp
2018 0.41 +0.03 pp
2017 0.38 +0.08 pp
2016 0.3 +0.06 pp
2015 0.24 +0.03 pp
2014 0.21 +0 pp
2013 0.21 +0.04 pp
2012 0.17 +0 pp
2011 0.17 +0 pp
2010 0.17 +0.02 pp
2009 0.15 +0.05 pp
2008 0.1 +0.01 pp
2007 0.09 +0.03 pp
2006 0.06 +0.03 pp
2005 0.03 +0.02 pp
2004 0.01 +0 pp
2003 0.01 +0.01 pp
2002 0 +0 pp
2001 0 −0.01 pp
2000 0.01

Eastern Asia, 2025

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

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.