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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.

2000bar height: countries covered, up to 2002024
Every year of Hydro Share of Electricity Generation held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2024Newest190−8September 29, 2026CSV
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2023198−2September 29, 2026CSV
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2022200±0September 29, 2026CSV
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2021200±0September 29, 2026CSV
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2020200±0September 29, 2026CSV
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2019200±0September 29, 2026CSV
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2018200±0September 29, 2026CSV
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2017200±0September 29, 2026CSV
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2016200±0September 29, 2026CSV
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2015200±0September 29, 2026CSV
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2014200±0September 29, 2026CSV
Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2013200±0September 29, 2026CSV
Show all 25 years

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.

Every column in the newest file of Hydro Share of Electricity Generation: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1900
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1900
Hydro (% of generation)hydro_shareHeadlineThe headline figure: Hydropower (% of electricity generated).Number · up to 3 decimals0.00044 share it100.000Bhutanmiddle 11.0221460
Renewables (% of generation)renewable_shareMeasureShare of the electricity generated that came from renewable sources — hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy and geothermal — in per cent.Number · up to 3 decimals0.0004 share it100.0007 share itmiddle 31.6601780
Total generation (TWh)generation_twhMeasureTotal electricity generated in the country during the year, from all sources, in terawatt-hours.Number · up to 3 decimals0.010Montserrat10,025.008Chinamiddle 13.7301850

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa545454545454545454545350
Americas434343434343434343434340
Asia474747474747474747474747
Europe414141414141414141414039
Oceania151515151515151515151514
All200200200200200200200200200200198190

The newest 12 of 25 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    − Central African Republic− Comoros− Dominica− Faroe Islands− São Tomé and Príncipe− British Virgin Islands− United States Virgin Islands− Vanuatu
  • 2023
    − Lesotho− Ukraine
  • 2012
    + South Sudan
  • 2005
    + Montenegro

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.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    Ember

  2. 2 · Their file

    Hydro Share of Electricity Generation 2024

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    25 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as hydro-electricity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • 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.

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.

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