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Dataset · Ember
Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation
25 years, 2000–2024 · 193 countries · 4 measures
This is the share of a country’s electricity generation that came from low-carbon sources — renewables and nuclear power together. Ember compiles it each year from national reporting.
This site holds every year from 2000 to 2024, read from Ember’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation · the file
- Newest
- Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2024
- Held
- 25 years · 5,046 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0125 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
Show all 25 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2012 | 203 | +1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2011 | 202 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2010 | 202 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2009 | 202 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2008 | 202 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2007 | 202 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2006 | 202 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2005 | 202 | +1 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2004 | 201 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2003 | 201 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2002 | 201 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2001 | 201 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2000 | 201 | — | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: clean-electricity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
026 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 193 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 193 | 0 | |
Low-carbon: renewables + nuclear (% of generation)clean_shareHeadline | The headline figure: Low-carbon sources (% of electricity generated). | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.0004 share it100.0007 share itmiddle 35.659 | 182 | 0 | |
Renewables (% of generation)renewable_shareMeasure | Share of electricity generated from renewable sources such as hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy and geothermal, in % of total generation. | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.0004 share it100.0007 share itmiddle 31.136 | 181 | 0 | |
Nuclear (% of generation)nuclear_shareMeasure | Share of electricity generated by nuclear reactors, in % of total generation. | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.00152 share it67.40 Francemiddle 0.00 | 32 | 10 | |
Total generation (TWh)generation_twhMeasure | Total electricity the country generated in the year, in terawatt-hours. | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.010 Montserrat10,025.008 Chinamiddle 14.770 | 188 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03203 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 53 | 50 |
| Americas | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 40 |
| Asia | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| Europe | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 40 | 39 |
| Oceania | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 |
| All | 203 | 203 | 203 | 203 | 203 | 203 | 203 | 203 | 203 | 203 | 201 | 193 |
The newest 12 of 25 years.
Who joined and who left
− Central African Republic
− Comoros
− Dominica
− Faroe Islands
− São Tomé and Príncipe
− British Virgin Islands
− United States Virgin Islands
− Vanuatu
− Lesotho
− Ukraine
+ South Sudan
+ MontenegroNot in this dataset · 21 places this site covers
Ember gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Ember
2 · Their file
Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
25 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as clean-electricity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 3 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From Ember’s Yearly Electricity Data, the same public download its own data explorer offers. The percentages are Ember’s own “Clean” shares, not recomputed here.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 26, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: Ember, Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Ember. Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation, 2000–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/clean-electricity
The publisher’s own citation: Ember. Yearly Electricity Data. London: Ember (Ember Energy Research CIC).
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Carbon Intensity of ElectricityEmber · 25 held · 2000–2024
- Renewable Share of Electricity GenerationEmber · 25 held · 2000–2024
- World Energy Trilemma IndexWorld Energy Council · 1 held · 2023
07Questions
Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation: questions and answers
What is the Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation?
This is the share of a country’s electricity generation that came from low-carbon sources — renewables and nuclear power together. Ember compiles it each year from national reporting.
Which years of the Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation can I download?
All 25, from 2000 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does Ember rank countries on it?
No. Ember publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to Ember. The licence text is linked on this page.