Data for 2000

Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2000

Name: Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2000
Creator: Ember
License: https://ember-energy.org/

Figures for 2000, as Ember published them · stored as published, never rewritten

This is the share of a country’s electricity generation that came from hydropower. It is the reason countries such as Norway, Paraguay and Nepal run on clean power without a wind or solar boom.

Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2000 covers 170 countries on 3 measures. 6 countries share the highest reading, 100.00; 52 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 12.79.

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Hydro Share of Electricity Generation · Data for 2000

Highest6 countries share it

100.00

Lowest52 countries share it

0.00

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

170countries
3measures per country
2000the year it describes
112distinct values3 decimals, as published
Oct 2, 2026read from the publisher
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Every country and every column of Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2000, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

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Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2000: every country, as published by Ember.

Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	100.00	100.000	1.79
Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	100.00	100.000	0.10
DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	100.00	100.000	5.94
Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	100.00	100.000	0.29
Paraguay`PRY`South America	100.00	100.000	53.49
Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	100.00	100.000	0.29
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	99.90	99.896	9.57
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	99.51	99.712	142.52
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	99.48	99.481	7.71
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	98.84	98.841	3.45
Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	98.46	98.455	14.24
Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	98.18	98.182	1.65
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	97.48	99.371	1.59
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	97.22	97.222	1.44
Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	96.20	96.195	4.73
Uruguay`URY`South America	92.89	93.412	7.59
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	91.21	91.353	7.17
Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	89.86	89.863	3.65
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	85.49	85.489	15.85
Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	85.20	86.400	2.50
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	84.30	90.083	1.21
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	82.65	100.000	7.61
Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	81.92	99.125	6.86
Peru`PER`South America	81.18	81.978	19.92
Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	80.00	80.000	0.10
Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	78.80	78.804	7.36
Colombia`COL`South America	74.17	75.356	42.81
Suriname`SUR`South America	73.96	73.958	0.96
Venezuela`VEN`South America	73.75	73.754	85.27
Ecuador`ECU`South America	71.51	71.510	10.53
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	70.15	72.837	59.64
Panama`PAN`Central America	69.94	70.348	4.89
Belize`BLZ`Central America	69.23	69.231	0.13
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	68.12	68.116	4.14
Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	64.58	64.583	0.48
Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	63.19	63.194	1.44
Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	62.79	63.953	0.86
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	62.50	62.500	0.16
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	62.17	71.755	38.91
Honduras`HND`Central America	61.54	61.813	3.64
Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	61.07	61.832	1.31
Greenland`GRL`Northern America	58.62	58.621	0.29
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	57.54	57.538	11.21
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	55.56	55.556	0.18
Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	54.67	72.000	0.75
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	54.11	57.247	145.23
Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	51.85	51.852	0.54
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	50.62	50.617	0.81
Bolivia`BOL`South America	50.26	51.546	3.88
Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	50.00	50.000	0.08
Chile`CHL`South America	47.54	49.830	41.12
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	46.06	50.000	2.54
Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	45.64	45.637	6.99
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	42.40	42.396	2.17
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	38.70	50.155	6.46
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	38.20	38.263	14.74
Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	37.50	37.500	0.08
Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	36.67	36.667	5.10
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	36.46	36.458	4.80
Faroe Islands`FRO`Northern Europe	36.36	36.364	0.22
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	33.43	55.890	3.65
São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	33.33	33.333	0.03
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	30.74	30.736	31.95
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	30.39	40.371	4.31
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	30.00	40.000	0.40
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	30.00	30.000	0.10
French Polynesia`PYF`Polynesia	29.27	29.268	0.41
Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	28.79	98.485	0.66
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	28.67	28.666	51.56
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	28.14	28.655	13.61
New Caledonia`NCL`Melanesia	26.83	27.439	1.64
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	26.20	29.785	43.21
Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	25.85	25.854	66.49
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	25.64	25.641	0.39
Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	24.83	25.052	124.38
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	21.70	26.415	1.06
Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	21.63	21.626	5.78
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	20.95	33.414	69.97
Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	20.00	20.000	0.05
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	17.22	42.892	45.30
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	17.18	17.181	6.81
China`CHN`Eastern Asia	16.41	16.639	1,355.60
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	16.37	18.845	269.94
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	14.98	14.977	30.78
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	12.79	15.612	220.92
Syria`SYR`Western Asia	12.79	12.911	25.25
France`FRA`Western Europe	12.16	12.737	532.56
Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	11.11	11.111	0.09
Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	9.21	21.491	2.28
Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	8.14	8.137	18.68
Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	7.53	7.533	46.86
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	7.16	7.156	5.45
Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	7.14	7.143	0.42
United States`USA`Northern America	7.10	9.230	3,802.10
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	6.97	7.820	52.94
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	6.48	6.479	40.59
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	6.25	6.250	0.48
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	5.90	5.897	15.94
Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	5.77	6.995	13.01
Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	5.09	29.379	1.77
Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	4.42	4.422	9.95
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	3.60	5.036	23.63
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	3.06	3.055	11.13
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	2.41	3.128	72.90
Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	1.91	1.912	31.90
Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	1.63	4.579	6.77
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	1.47	1.627	143.18
Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	0.69	0.686	21.85
Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	0.60	6.853	15.03
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	0.57	0.755	10.59
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	0.56	1.268	82.79
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	0.54	0.543	7.37
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	0.51	0.682	35.19
Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	0.20	0.197	25.40
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	0.16	3.373	88.06
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	0.12	0.115	26.10
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	0.08	15.537	35.85
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	0.07	0.070	42.66
American Samoa`ASM`Polynesia	0.00	0.000	0.17
Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	0.15
Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	0.78
Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	1.70
Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	0.00	0.000	13.86
Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	0.79
Benin`BEN`Western Africa	0.00	0.000	0.08
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	0.00	0.000	1.14
British Virgin Islands`VGB`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	0.11
Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0.00	0.000	2.54
Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	0.00	6.667	0.15
Cayman Islands`CYM`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	0.44
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	0.00	0.000	0.09
Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	0.00	0.000	0.03
Cook Islands`COK`Polynesia	0.00	0.000	0.03
Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	0.00	0.000	3.37
Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	0.00	0.000	0.18
Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	0.00	0.000	0.21
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	0.00	0.118	8.51
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	0.00	0.000	0.13
Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	0.13
Guam`GUM`Micronesia	0.00	0.000	1.94
Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	0.00	0.000	0.03
Guyana`GUY`South America	0.00	1.111	0.90
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	0.00	0.000	31.26
Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	0.00	0.000	0.01
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	0.00	0.000	32.33
Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	0.00	0.000	0.20
Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	0.00	0.000	15.50
Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	0.00	0.000	1.57
Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	0.00	0.000	0.15
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	0.00	0.000	1.92
Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	0.00	0.000	2.90
Montserrat`MSR`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	0.01
Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	0.00	0.000	0.03
Niger`NER`Western Africa	0.00	0.000	0.21
Oman`OMN`Western Asia	0.00	0.000	9.11
Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	0.00	0.000	0.03
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	0.00	0.000	9.13
Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	0.15
Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	0.28
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	0.00	3.356	1.49
Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	0.00	0.000	0.20
Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	0.00	0.000	0.06
Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	0.00	0.000	0.25
Tonga`TON`Polynesia	0.00	0.000	0.04
Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	0.00	0.366	5.46
Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	0.00	0.000	9.85
Turks and Caicos Islands`TCA`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	0.08
United States Virgin Islands`VIR`Caribbean	0.00	0.000	1.03
Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	0.00	0.000	0.05
Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	0.00	0.000	3.41

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

Burundishared100.00
Bhutanshared100.00
DR Congoshared100.00
Republic of the Congoshared100.00
Lesothoshared100.00

Lowest

Yemenshared0.00
Vanuatushared0.00
United States Virgin Islandsshared0.00
British Virgin Islandsshared0.00
Trinidad and Tobagoshared0.00

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 12.79. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Renewables (% of generation)
Highest7 share it
Lowest47 share it
Middle country: 16.126
Total generation (TWh)
HighestUnited States3,802.10
Lowest2 share it
Middle country: 3.55

03Caveats

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Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 52 countries share 0.00. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
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Ember (2000). Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/hydro-electricity/2000

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