Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — Sub-Saharan Africa

Wind share of electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2024 — 2.77%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 2.77 pp.

2024 2.77% −0.11 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 2.88%2023
Period minimum 0%2003

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — Sub-Saharan Africa, 2000–202401232000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0.01%2008: 0.01%2009: 0.02%2010: 0.02%2011: 0.03%2012: 0.08%2013: 0.12%2014: 0.38%2015: 0.91%2016: 1.14%2017: 1.66%2018: 1.54%2019: 1.87%2020: 1.79%2021: 2.37%2022: 2.54%2023: 2.88%2024: 2.77%
Change over the period: +2.77 pp Annual average: 0.12 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa 2.77%
World computed 8.16%
Wind share of electricity — Sub-Saharan Africa, by year Sub-Saharan Africa All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 2.77 −0.11 pp
2023 2.88 +0.35 pp
2022 2.54 +0.17 pp
2021 2.37 +0.58 pp
2020 1.79 −0.09 pp
2019 1.87 +0.33 pp
2018 1.54 −0.12 pp
2017 1.66 +0.52 pp
2016 1.14 +0.23 pp
2015 0.91 +0.53 pp
2014 0.38 +0.26 pp
2013 0.12 +0.05 pp
2012 0.08 +0.05 pp
2011 0.03 +0.02 pp
2010 0.02 −0 pp
2009 0.02 +0.01 pp
2008 0.01 +0.01 pp
2007 0.01 +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.