Renewable electricity output (IRENA)
Share of electricity generation from renewable energy sources, as reported by IRENA. Generation is gross electricity produced, including on-grid, off-grid and self-consumed generation. This is not installed generating capacity.
Renewable electricity output (IRENA)
% of total electricity output · 2000–2026
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Showing selected countries and up to 12 suggestions. Search by name or code across 217 countries and economies.Selected window: 2000–2026. Solid: observed · Dashed: estimate/projection · Dotted: source status unclassified · Diamond: 2026.
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IRENA identifies 2024 generation data as preliminary. The 2026 release is not a 2026 observation; the latest numeric generation shares returned are for 2024.
How to read this chart
Unclassified means the provider did not supply an explicit observation/estimate flag. It does not mean the value is unreliable. Source or methodology changes can affect trends across editions.
Countries publish data on different schedules. A shorter line or a gap means the source has no value for that country and year. Missing values are not zero. Only separately sourced official estimates or projections may fill gaps; we do not invent intermediate values. Use Table to inspect individual years.
The source-check date tells you when we retrieved the data, not the year it describes. Use the observation year when citing a value.
Compare the same definition and period. Differences are descriptive, not causal. National measurement methods may differ; crude rates are not age-standardised. Missing uncertainty intervals in this feed do not mean an estimate is exact.
At the same point in time
Latest comparable common year within this selection: 2024.
United States minus Portugal: -56.12 percentage points.
Japan minus Portugal: -56.24 percentage points.
Calculated by World in Stats from the named source values. Differences are not causal effects.Where did these numbers come from?
- Dataset
- IRENA
- Original indicator
- IRENA.RE.GENERATION.SHARE · Original source
- Data providers
- International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Renewable Energy Statistics 2026
- Source dataset update
- 28 September 2026
- Retrieved
- 13 October 2026
- Publication date
- Not supplied separately by the API
- Definition
- Share of electricity generation from renewable energy sources, as reported by IRENA. Generation is gross electricity produced, including on-grid, off-grid and self-consumed generation. This is not installed generating capacity.
- Unit
- % of total electricity output
- Transformations
- Original reported percentages; no splice with WDI. Source rounding is preserved. Missing values remain null. The preliminary label for 2024 follows IRENA generation-table metadata.
- Licence & attribution
- International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Renewable Energy Statistics 2026. Source attribution and terms. No endorsement implied.
- Verification
- API endpoint (POST query archived) · Indicator metadata
Interpreting this indicator
This IRENA series measures renewable electricity generation as a share of total generation. Installed capacity is a different measure. Country coverage is narrower than WDI; compare countries within this series and the same reference year.
Understand percentages, rates and uncertainty
Data availability varies by country and year. Compare the same definition and time period. Revisions may change historical observations; these values belong to the snapshot retrieved on 13 October 2026.
This feed does not supply uncertainty intervals for these observations. No ranking or causal explanation is inferred.