Data for 2007

Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2007

Name: Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2007
Creator: Ember
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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, 2007 covers 172 countries on 3 measures. 5 countries share the highest reading, 100.000; 50 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 11.196. Against 2006, 114 values changed (51 up, 63 down), the same countries are covered.

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Hydro Share of Electricity Generation · Data for 2007

Highest5 countries share it

100.000

Lowest50 countries share it

0.000

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

172countries
3measures per country
2007the year it describes
119distinct values3 decimals, as published
Oct 2, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Values only

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Every country and every column of Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2007, 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, 2007: every country, as published by Ember.

Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	100.000	100.00	6.49
Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	100.000	100.00	0.12
Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	100.000	100.00	3.37
Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	100.000	100.00	0.55
Paraguay`PRY`South America	100.000	100.00	53.71
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	99.937	99.94	15.91
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	99.896	99.90	9.64
Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	99.639	99.64	2.77
DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	98.851	98.85	7.83
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	98.200	99.14	136.11
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	98.089	98.09	1.57
Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	97.827	97.83	17.49
Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	97.527	97.53	2.83
Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	87.500	87.50	0.16
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	86.709	90.51	1.58
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	85.782	85.78	14.70
Uruguay`URY`South America	85.501	86.99	9.38
Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	82.500	82.50	0.40
Belize`BLZ`Central America	81.818	81.82	0.22
Colombia`COL`South America	80.307	81.38	54.79
Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	79.412	79.41	8.50
Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	76.852	76.85	3.24
Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	74.610	91.98	8.98
Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	74.257	74.26	1.01
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	73.129	74.66	5.21
Venezuela`VEN`South America	72.726	72.73	114.21
Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	70.789	71.58	7.60
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	70.000	73.00	2.00
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	69.891	100.00	11.89
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	67.949	67.95	0.78
Peru`PER`South America	65.319	66.72	29.93
Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	63.393	64.29	1.12
North Korea`PRK`Eastern Asia	61.477	61.48	21.39
Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	59.813	59.81	2.14
Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	59.434	60.85	4.24
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	58.969	68.71	62.83
Panama`PAN`Central America	57.430	57.74	6.46
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	57.353	59.24	4.76
Suriname`SUR`South America	57.333	57.33	1.50
Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	57.303	68.54	0.89
Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	56.563	56.56	6.40
Greenland`GRL`Northern America	55.556	55.56	0.36
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	53.942	65.49	43.38
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	53.017	53.16	6.96
Ecuador`ECU`South America	51.884	52.00	17.25
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	51.724	74.06	6.67
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	48.000	48.00	0.25
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	47.368	52.63	0.19
Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	45.665	46.24	1.73
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	44.456	52.03	148.82
Bolivia`BOL`South America	42.279	43.20	5.44
Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	41.667	41.67	0.12
French Polynesia`PYF`Polynesia	40.000	40.00	0.55
Chile`CHL`South America	39.293	43.94	58.28
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	37.480	37.80	12.54
Faroe Islands`FRO`Northern Europe	37.037	44.44	0.27
Honduras`HND`Central America	34.817	37.52	6.29
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	34.404	50.92	8.72
Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	33.333	33.33	0.06
Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	32.609	32.61	0.46
Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	32.275	32.28	5.67
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	31.673	33.81	5.62
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	30.185	57.17	5.93
Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	29.860	31.16	96.15
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	29.747	32.91	1.58
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	27.907	30.81	5.16
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	27.099	27.14	22.99
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	26.300	26.30	35.97
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	25.942	26.01	61.56
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	25.373	37.31	3.35
Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	23.944	97.18	0.71
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	21.742	22.47	15.04
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	21.601	34.70	46.71
New Caledonia`NCL`Melanesia	20.207	22.28	1.93
São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	20.000	20.00	0.05
Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	18.719	19.04	191.52
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	18.033	18.03	0.61
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	17.470	29.96	81.17
Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	17.268	17.27	33.24
Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	16.667	16.67	0.12
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	15.978	17.70	27.85
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	15.538	15.54	6.50
China`CHN`Eastern Asia	14.788	15.26	3,281.55
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	14.358	31.60	59.62
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	14.286	14.29	0.14
Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	11.668	12.77	14.57
Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	10.724	10.72	21.82
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	10.720	15.59	306.17
France`FRA`Western Europe	9.965	11.45	561.84
Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	9.527	9.53	49.02
Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	9.375	28.75	3.20
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	9.047	19.31	301.86
Syria`SYR`Western Asia	8.999	9.08	38.67
Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	7.812	7.81	0.64
Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	7.692	7.69	0.13
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	6.609	6.73	42.82
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	6.429	7.86	2.80
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	5.963	5.96	5.87
United States`USA`Northern America	5.808	8.40	4,142.57
Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	5.487	5.49	10.57
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	4.151	7.36	62.40
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	3.762	8.15	3.19
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	3.731	3.73	1.34
Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	3.252	22.36	2.46
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	3.120	4.31	13.46
Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	2.640	4.95	6.06
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	2.388	2.45	30.99
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	2.381	3.90	87.77
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	2.362	10.01	28.36
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	1.482	3.43	158.52
Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	0.681	3.01	17.61
Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	0.648	0.65	24.68
Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	0.592	0.59	37.19
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	0.526	4.71	39.96
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	0.468	0.55	12.83
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	0.449	4.02	86.81
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	0.364	0.66	13.74
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	0.164	1.15	12.18
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	0.126	0.16	31.83
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	0.106	7.32	103.68
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	0.077	26.32	39.14
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	0.019	0.04	53.79
American Samoa`ASM`Polynesia	0.000	0.00	0.19
Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.29
Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.94
Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	2.25
Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	0.000	0.00	21.72
Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	1.05
Benin`BEN`Western Africa	0.000	0.00	0.22
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	0.000	0.00	0.83
British Virgin Islands`VGB`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.18
Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0.000	0.00	3.39
Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	0.000	3.70	0.27
Cayman Islands`CYM`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.60
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	0.000	0.00	0.12
Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	0.000	0.00	0.05
Cook Islands`COK`Polynesia	0.000	0.00	0.03
Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	0.000	0.00	4.87
Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	0.000	0.00	0.32
Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	0.000	0.00	0.29
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	0.000	0.00	0.23
Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.18
Guam`GUM`Micronesia	0.000	0.00	1.88
Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	0.000	0.00	0.03
Guyana`GUY`South America	0.000	1.43	0.70
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	0.000	0.00	38.88
Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	0.000	0.00	0.03
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	0.000	0.00	48.75
Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	0.000	0.00	0.25
Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	0.000	0.00	26.23
Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	0.000	11.18	1.52
Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	0.000	0.00	0.35
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	0.000	0.00	2.30
Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	0.000	0.00	3.71
Montserrat`MSR`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.01
Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	0.000	0.00	0.02
Niger`NER`Western Africa	0.000	0.00	0.22
Oman`OMN`Western Asia	0.000	0.00	14.17
Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	0.000	0.00	0.42
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	0.000	0.00	19.46
Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.21
Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.35
Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	0.000	0.00	0.34
Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	0.000	0.00	0.08
Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	0.000	0.00	0.31
Tonga`TON`Polynesia	0.000	0.00	0.05
Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	0.000	0.26	7.68
Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	0.000	0.00	14.88
Turks and Caicos Islands`TCA`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.18
United States Virgin Islands`VIR`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.98
Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	0.000	0.00	0.05
Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	0.000	0.00	6.03

02In 2007

At either end

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

Highest

Burundishared100.000
Bhutanshared100.000
Laosshared100.000
Lesothoshared100.000
Paraguayshared100.000

Lowest

Yemenshared0.000
Vanuatushared0.000
United States Virgin Islandsshared0.000
British Virgin Islandsshared0.000
Trinidad and Tobagoshared0.000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 11.196. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Renewables (% of generation)
Highest6 share it
Lowest46 share it
Middle country: 16.13
Total generation (TWh)
HighestUnited States4,142.57
LowestMontserrat0.01
Middle country: 5.19

032006 → 2007

Since 2006

+0 / −0countries joined / left
114values changed, of 172 in both
51 · 63rose · fell
58unchanged

Rose most

Sierra Leone0.000 → 33.333+33.333
Uruguay63.734 → 85.501+21.767
Fiji37.778 → 57.303+19.525
Tanzania41.026 → 59.434+18.408
Georgia70.415 → 79.412+8.997

Fell most

Haiti47.368 → 32.609−14.759
Croatia51.278 → 37.480−13.798
Ghana66.269 → 53.017−13.252
Chile52.398 → 39.293−13.105
Gabon56.627 → 45.665−10.962

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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Ember (2007). Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2007 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/hydro-electricity/2007

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