Wind share of electricity — all countries

Wind share of electricity — Western Asia

Wind share of electricity in Western Asia in 2024 — 2.76%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 2.75 pp.

2024 2.76% +0.07 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 2.79%2022
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Wind share of electricity — Western Asia, 2000–202401232000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0.01%2002: 0.01%2003: 0.01%2004: 0.01%2005: 0.01%2006: 0.02%2007: 0.05%2008: 0.11%2009: 0.18%2010: 0.32%2011: 0.51%2012: 0.61%2013: 0.76%2014: 0.79%2015: 1.04%2016: 1.36%2017: 1.47%2018: 1.65%2019: 1.76%2020: 2.02%2021: 2.42%2022: 2.79%2023: 2.69%2024: 2.76%
Change over the period: +2.75 pp Annual average: 0.11 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Western Asia

Western Asia 2.76%
World computed 8.16%
Wind share of electricity — Western Asia, by year Western Asia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 2.76 +0.07 pp
2023 2.69 −0.1 pp
2022 2.79 +0.37 pp
2021 2.42 +0.39 pp
2020 2.02 +0.27 pp
2019 1.76 +0.11 pp
2018 1.65 +0.17 pp
2017 1.47 +0.12 pp
2016 1.36 +0.32 pp
2015 1.04 +0.25 pp
2014 0.79 +0.03 pp
2013 0.76 +0.15 pp
2012 0.61 +0.1 pp
2011 0.51 +0.18 pp
2010 0.32 +0.14 pp
2009 0.18 +0.08 pp
2008 0.11 +0.06 pp
2007 0.05 +0.03 pp
2006 0.02 +0.01 pp
2005 0.01 −0 pp
2004 0.01 +0 pp
2003 0.01 +0 pp
2002 0.01 −0 pp
2001 0.01 +0.01 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.