Dataset · Ember
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation
25 years, 2000–2024 · 190 countries · 3 measures
This is the share of a country’s electricity generation that came from hydropower. It is the reason countries such as Norway, Paraguay, Nepal and Ethiopia run on clean power without a wind or solar boom.
This site holds every year from 2000 to 2024, read from Ember’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation · the file
- Newest
- Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2024
- Held
- 25 years · 4,971 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.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2024Newest | 190 | −8 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2023 | 198 | −2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2022 | 200 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2021 | 200 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2020 | 200 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2019 | 200 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2018 | 200 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2017 | 200 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2016 | 200 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2015 | 200 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2014 | 200 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2013 | 200 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 25 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2012 | 200 | +1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2011 | 199 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2010 | 199 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2009 | 199 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2008 | 199 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2007 | 199 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2006 | 199 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2005 | 199 | +1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2004 | 198 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2003 | 198 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2002 | 198 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2001 | 198 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2000 | 198 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: hydro-electricity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 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 | — | 190 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 190 | 0 | |
Hydro (% of generation)hydro_shareHeadline | The headline figure: Hydropower (% of electricity generated). | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.00044 share it100.000 | 146 | 0 | |
Renewables (% of generation)renewable_shareMeasure | Share of the electricity generated that came from renewable sources — hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy and geothermal — in per cent. | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.0004 share it100.0007 share itmiddle 31.660 | 178 | 0 | |
Total generation (TWh)generation_twhMeasure | Total electricity generated in the country during the year, from all sources, in terawatt-hours. | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.010 | 185 | 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. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03200 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 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 |
| 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 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 198 | 190 |
The newest 12 of 25 years.
Who joined and who left
Not in this dataset · 25 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
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 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 hydro-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, not recomputed here; pumped-storage hydro is left out where Ember can separate it.
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 29, 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, Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Ember. Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2000–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/hydro-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
Hydro 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
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation: questions and answers
What is the Hydro Share of Electricity Generation?
This is the share of a country’s electricity generation that came from hydropower. It is the reason countries such as Norway, Paraguay, Nepal and Ethiopia run on clean power without a wind or solar boom.
Which years of the Hydro 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, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to Ember. The licence text is linked on this page.