Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — Eastern Africa

Wind share of electricity in Eastern Africa in 2024 — 2.6%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 2.6 pp.

2024 2.6% +0.17 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 2.87%2021
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — Eastern Africa, 2000–202401232000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0.02%2008: 0.02%2009: 0.05%2010: 0.06%2011: 0.09%2012: 0.3%2013: 0.53%2014: 0.68%2015: 1.01%2016: 1.07%2017: 0.72%2018: 1.02%2019: 2.56%2020: 2.1%2021: 2.87%2022: 2.6%2023: 2.42%2024: 2.6%
Change over the period: +2.6 pp Annual average: 0.11 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Eastern Africa 2.6%
World computed 8.16%
Wind share of electricity — Eastern Africa, by year Eastern Africa All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 2.6 +0.17 pp
2023 2.42 −0.18 pp
2022 2.6 −0.27 pp
2021 2.87 +0.77 pp
2020 2.1 −0.46 pp
2019 2.56 +1.54 pp
2018 1.02 +0.3 pp
2017 0.72 −0.35 pp
2016 1.07 +0.06 pp
2015 1.01 +0.33 pp
2014 0.68 +0.15 pp
2013 0.53 +0.23 pp
2012 0.3 +0.22 pp
2011 0.09 +0.03 pp
2010 0.06 +0.01 pp
2009 0.05 +0.03 pp
2008 0.02 −0 pp
2007 0.02 +0.02 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.