Data for 2015

Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2015

Name: Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2015
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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, 2015 covers 173 countries on 3 measures. 4 countries share the highest reading, 100.000; 50 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 11.599. Against 2014, 116 values changed (44 up, 72 down), the same countries are covered.

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Hydro Share of Electricity Generation · Data for 2015

Highest4 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.

173countries
3measures per country
2015the year it describes
120distinct 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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by Ember.

Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	100.000	100.00	5.89
Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	100.000	100.00	7.73
Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	100.000	100.00	0.17
Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	100.000	100.00	0.53
DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	99.887	99.89	8.84
Paraguay`PRY`South America	99.732	100.00	55.89
Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	99.133	100.00	3.46
Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	99.068	99.07	17.16
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	96.521	97.04	13.51
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	96.014	97.95	143.00
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	94.937	97.47	1.58
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	92.982	92.98	18.38
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	90.323	94.01	2.17
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	87.042	97.75	3.55
Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	86.015	86.02	16.16
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	85.062	85.06	12.92
Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	84.746	87.29	1.18
Greenland`GRL`Northern America	82.353	82.35	0.51
Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	77.860	77.86	10.75
Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	77.778	83.33	0.18
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	77.193	78.95	1.14
Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	75.000	75.00	0.16
Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	74.188	98.98	10.77
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	72.992	100.00	18.55
Belize`BLZ`Central America	66.667	91.67	0.36
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	63.713	64.63	13.09
Colombia`COL`South America	61.485	63.35	77.97
Panama`PAN`Central America	60.777	65.34	10.30
Uruguay`URY`South America	60.189	93.16	13.74
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	60.149	77.03	61.78
Venezuela`VEN`South America	58.736	58.81	127.52
Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	58.025	59.51	16.20
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	56.851	66.90	11.24
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	55.726	80.08	43.57
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	54.902	56.86	0.51
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	54.271	54.90	7.96
Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	53.988	54.60	9.78
North Korea`PRK`Eastern Asia	52.298	52.46	18.93
Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	52.033	52.56	9.59
Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	51.955	54.19	1.79
Ecuador`ECU`South America	50.213	51.10	25.83
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	49.742	49.91	11.64
Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	49.667	49.67	3.00
Peru`PER`South America	49.120	52.72	48.27
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	48.107	49.00	4.49
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	46.488	63.27	162.00
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	44.622	48.21	2.51
Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	43.011	48.39	0.93
Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	42.925	43.40	2.12
Faroe Islands`FRO`Northern Europe	40.625	59.38	0.32
Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	39.068	40.14	2.79
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	38.226	89.81	9.81
Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	36.154	36.15	1.30
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	34.646	61.15	11.17
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	33.574	50.18	5.54
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	33.097	35.93	5.65
Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	32.312	33.54	6.53
Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	31.579	94.74	0.38
Chile`CHL`South America	31.237	43.20	74.91
Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	30.703	33.65	112.79
Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	28.874	28.87	7.55
Bolivia`BOL`South America	27.111	29.44	9.00
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	26.816	26.90	37.59
Honduras`HND`Central America	25.749	44.06	9.01
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	25.743	29.39	14.80
Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	25.652	31.96	261.77
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	25.327	39.89	65.66
Suriname`SUR`South America	25.269	26.34	1.86
French Polynesia`PYF`Polynesia	25.000	29.41	0.68
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	24.443	44.50	68.61
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	23.394	58.32	6.07
Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	23.077	30.77	0.13
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	22.075	31.35	4.53
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	19.355	19.51	33.17
China`CHN`Eastern Asia	19.220	23.77	5,798.82
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	16.934	47.63	51.14
Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	16.379	27.59	1.16
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	16.282	38.93	279.70
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	15.402	16.55	8.70
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	14.538	22.73	26.62
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	13.636	13.64	0.44
Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	13.333	13.33	0.15
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	13.333	13.33	0.15
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	11.949	29.09	51.05
Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	11.879	11.88	57.41
New Caledonia`NCL`Melanesia	11.724	14.14	2.90
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	11.599	17.96	48.71
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	10.510	25.41	82.40
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	10.153	35.03	277.17
São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	10.000	10.00	0.10
France`FRA`Western Europe	9.677	16.00	574.15
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	8.911	9.90	1.01
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	8.274	39.72	4.23
Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	7.767	7.77	1.03
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	7.463	32.09	1.34
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	7.432	9.01	4.44
Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	6.593	6.96	24.57
Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	6.318	50.11	4.59
United States`USA`Northern America	5.974	13.63	4,083.99
Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	5.167	7.89	18.00
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	4.305	4.47	6.04
Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	4.013	22.74	2.99
Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	3.610	3.70	70.64
Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	3.037	10.28	4.28
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	2.877	28.31	28.15
Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	2.521	2.68	18.64
Syria`SYR`Western Asia	2.277	2.44	18.01
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	2.170	11.41	82.49
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	1.114	13.81	164.30
Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	1.089	3.99	5.51
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	0.995	1.35	59.29
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	0.758	10.62	30.33
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	0.468	21.10	68.43
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	0.359	2.98	19.48
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	0.323	1.00	34.09
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	0.296	15.37	10.15
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	0.262	1.21	19.06
Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	0.245	4.41	20.39
Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	0.239	1.82	20.90
Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	0.203	0.32	68.84
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	0.083	12.56	108.99
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	0.069	65.78	28.78
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	0.031	1.90	64.23
American Samoa`ASM`Polynesia	0.000	0.00	0.16
Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	0.000	2.86	0.35
Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	0.000	18.56	0.97
Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	2.00
Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	0.000	0.04	28.49
Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	0.000	0.96	1.04
Benin`BEN`Western Africa	0.000	0.00	0.32
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	0.000	0.00	2.97
British Virgin Islands`VGB`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.21
Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0.000	0.00	4.20
Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	0.000	20.93	0.43
Cayman Islands`CYM`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.64
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	0.000	3.33	0.30
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	8.81	4.54
Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	0.000	0.00	0.18
Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	0.000	0.00	0.26
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	0.000	0.00	0.28
Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.21
Guam`GUM`Micronesia	0.000	1.75	1.71
Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	0.000	0.00	0.06
Guyana`GUY`South America	0.000	3.96	1.01
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	0.000	0.19	37.86
Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	0.000	0.00	0.03
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	0.000	0.02	68.30
Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	0.000	0.00	0.31
Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	0.000	0.03	37.51
Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	0.000	21.05	0.95
Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	0.000	1.61	0.62
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	0.000	7.69	1.30
Montserrat`MSR`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.01
Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	0.000	0.00	0.03
Niger`NER`Western Africa	0.000	1.85	0.54
Oman`OMN`Western Asia	0.000	0.00	32.75
Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	0.000	1.92	0.52
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	0.000	0.31	41.63
Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	0.000	4.55	0.22
Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.38
Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	0.000	2.17	0.46
Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	0.000	0.00	0.09
Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	0.000	0.00	0.35
South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	0.000	0.00	0.58
Tonga`TON`Polynesia	0.000	0.00	0.05
Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	0.000	0.10	9.57
Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	0.000	0.00	22.53
Turks and Caicos Islands`TCA`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.23
United States Virgin Islands`VIR`Caribbean	0.000	1.28	0.78
Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	0.000	16.67	0.06
Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	0.000	2.08	5.76

02In 2015

At either end

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

Highest

Albaniashared100.000
Bhutanshared100.000
Central African Republicshared100.000
Lesothoshared100.000
DR Congo99.887

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 11.599. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Renewables (% of generation)
Highest7 share it
Lowest26 share it
Middle country: 22.73
Total generation (TWh)
HighestChina5,798.82
LowestMontserrat0.01
Middle country: 5.89

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

+0 / −0countries joined / left
116values changed, of 173 in both
44 · 72rose · fell
57unchanged

Rose most

Guinea59.155 → 77.193+18.038
North Macedonia22.491 → 33.097+10.606
Türkiye16.130 → 25.652+9.522
Costa Rica65.388 → 74.188+8.800
Panama54.086 → 60.777+6.691

Fell most

Togo34.286 → 13.636−20.650
Eswatini47.917 → 31.579−16.338
Republic of the Congo53.409 → 39.068−14.341
Uruguay74.345 → 60.189−14.156
Laos100.000 → 86.015−13.985

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

04Caveats

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120 distinct values among 173
Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 50 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
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Ember (2015). Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/hydro-electricity/2015

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