Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — Sri Lanka

Wind share of electricity in Sri Lanka in 2025 — 5.39%. Ranked 41 in the world out of 89. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 5.39 pp.

2025 5.39% +0.29 pp vs 2024
World rank 41of 89
Period maximum 5.39%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — Sri Lanka, 2000–202502462000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0.47%2011: 0.78%2012: 1.19%2013: 1.92%2014: 2.17%2015: 2.57%2016: 2.45%2017: 2.48%2018: 2.05%2019: 2.1%2020: 2%2021: 3.71%2022: 4.42%2023: 5%2024: 5.1%2025: 5.39%
Change over the period: +5.39 pp Annual average: 0.22 pp
Wind share of electricity — Sri Lanka, by year Sri Lanka All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 5.39 +0.29 pp
2024 5.1 +0.1 pp
2023 5 +0.58 pp
2022 4.42 +0.71 pp
2021 3.71 +1.71 pp
2020 2 −0.1 pp
2019 2.1 +0.05 pp
2018 2.05 −0.43 pp
2017 2.48 +0.03 pp
2016 2.45 −0.12 pp
2015 2.57 +0.4 pp
2014 2.17 +0.25 pp
2013 1.92 +0.73 pp
2012 1.19 +0.41 pp
2011 0.78 +0.31 pp
2010 0.47 +0.47 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

Southern 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.