Electricity generation mix by country
How each country generates its electricity: total generation, generation per person, and the share from coal, gas, oil, nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy and other renewables. One row per country for the latest year with data.
Columns
Stable keys — use them in the API, SQL and code
| Key | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | Country | country | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code. |
| country_name | Country name | string | — |
| year | Year | year | Year the figures refer to (the latest available for this country). |
| electricity_generation_twh | Generation | number · TWh | Total electricity generated in the year, in terawatt-hours (1 TWh = 1 billion kWh). |
| per_capita_kwh | Generation per person | number · kWh | Electricity generated per person in the year, in kilowatt-hours. |
| low_carbon_share | Low-carbon share | number · % | Share of electricity from nuclear and renewable sources combined. |
| renewables_share | Renewables share | number · % | Share of electricity from hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy and other renewables. |
| fossil_share | Fossil share | number · % | Share of electricity from coal, gas and oil combined. |
| coal_share | Coal | number · % | Share of the country's electricity generated from coal. |
| gas_share | Gas | number · % | Share of the country's electricity generated from natural gas. |
| oil_share | Oil | number · % | Share of the country's electricity generated from oil and other fossil fuels. |
| nuclear_share | Nuclear | number · % | Share of the country's electricity generated from nuclear power. |
| hydro_share | Hydro | number · % | Share of the country's electricity generated from hydropower. |
| wind_share | Wind | number · % | Share of the country's electricity generated from wind. |
| solar_share | Solar | number · % | Share of the country's electricity generated from solar. |
| bioenergy_share | Bioenergy | number · % | Share of the country's electricity generated from bioenergy (biomass, biogas and waste). |
| other_renewables_share | Other renewables | number · % | Share of the country's electricity generated from other renewables such as geothermal, tidal and wave (excluding bioenergy). |
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