Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — Northern Europe

Wind share of electricity in Northern Europe in 2025 — 25.02%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 24.27 pp.

2025 25.02% +0.61 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 25.02%2025
Period minimum 0.74%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — Northern Europe, 2000–202501020302000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0.74%2001: 0.76%2002: 0.88%2003: 1.02%2004: 1.24%2005: 1.43%2006: 1.63%2007: 1.97%2008: 2.3%2009: 2.8%2010: 3.1%2011: 4.75%2012: 5.26%2013: 7.08%2014: 8.3%2015: 10.38%2016: 9.68%2017: 12.08%2018: 13.2%2019: 15.57%2020: 19.13%2021: 17.35%2022: 21.04%2023: 22.6%2024: 24.41%2025: 25.02%
Change over the period: +24.27 pp Annual average: 0.97 pp
Wind share of electricity — Northern Europe, by year Northern Europe All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 25.02 +0.61 pp
2024 24.41 +1.81 pp
2023 22.6 +1.56 pp
2022 21.04 +3.69 pp
2021 17.35 −1.78 pp
2020 19.13 +3.55 pp
2019 15.57 +2.37 pp
2018 13.2 +1.12 pp
2017 12.08 +2.4 pp
2016 9.68 −0.7 pp
2015 10.38 +2.08 pp
2014 8.3 +1.22 pp
2013 7.08 +1.81 pp
2012 5.26 +0.51 pp
2011 4.75 +1.65 pp
2010 3.1 +0.3 pp
2009 2.8 +0.5 pp
2008 2.3 +0.33 pp
2007 1.97 +0.34 pp
2006 1.63 +0.2 pp
2005 1.43 +0.19 pp
2004 1.24 +0.22 pp
2003 1.02 +0.14 pp
2002 0.88 +0.12 pp
2001 0.76 +0.01 pp
2000 0.74

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.