Which countries use the largest share of renewable energy?
This ranking compares the renewable share of total final energy consumption, rather than renewable electricity alone. Only sovereign countries with data appear below.
Renewable energy includes traditional biomass such as wood and charcoal. A high share can reflect reliance on those fuels; this table is not an environmental sustainability ranking.
Values are compared within the World Bank dataset and its stated source year. Missing values are excluded, rather than counted as zero.
The ranking
| 1 |  | DR Congo | 96.3% |
| 2 |  | Somalia | 95.4% |
| 3 |  | Liberia | 92.8% |
| 4 |  | Gabon | 91.3% |
| 5 |  | Central African Republic | 90.9% |
| 6 |  | Uganda | 90.9% |
| 7 |  | Ethiopia | 90.6% |
| 8 |  | Guinea-Bissau | 87.4% |
| 9 |  | Madagascar | 83.1% |
| 10 |  | Burundi | 83.0% |
| 11 |  | Zambia | 83.0% |
| 12 |  | Bhutan | 82.5% |
| 13 |  | Iceland | 82.4% |
| 14 |  | Zimbabwe | 82.4% |
| 15 |  | Eritrea | 80.7% |
| 16 |  | Nigeria | 80.3% |
| 17 |  | Rwanda | 79.9% |
| 18 |  | Niger | 79.6% |
| 19 |  | Cameroon | 79.2% |
| 20 |  | Tanzania | 78.3% |
| 21 |  | Mozambique | 76.9% |
| 22 |  | Haiti | 76.7% |
| 23 |  | Togo | 75.1% |
| 24 |  | Nepal | 73.7% |
| 25 |  | Sierra Leone | 71.6% |
| 26 |  | Burkina Faso | 71.4% |
| 27 |  | Republic of the Congo | 71.4% |
| 28 |  | Mali | 71.1% |
| 29 |  | Chad | 70.0% |
| 30 |  | Kenya | 67.7% |
| 31 |  | Guinea | 66.6% |
| 32 |  | Eswatini | 64.7% |
| 33 |  | Malawi | 62.9% |
| 34 |  | Myanmar | 62.9% |
| 35 |  | Guatemala | 62.1% |
| 36 |  | Norway | 61.4% |
| 37 |  | Sudan | 61.0% |
| 38 |  | Paraguay | 58.8% |
| 39 |  | Ivory Coast | 58.2% |
| 40 |  | Sweden | 57.9% |
| 41 |  | Uruguay | 57.8% |
| 42 |  | Liechtenstein | 56.9% |
| 43 |  | Papua New Guinea | 54.6% |
| 44 |  | Benin | 54.5% |
| 45 |  | Angola | 52.9% |
| 46 |  | Cambodia | 52.4% |
| 47 |  | Nicaragua | 50.4% |
| 48 |  | Finland | 50.2% |
| 49 |  | Solomon Islands | 50.1% |
| 50 |  | Laos | 49.2% |
Questions
Which country leads this renewable energy ranking?
DR Congo leads the available sovereign-country records, with 96.3%. The source year is 2021. This is a comparison of countries with data, rather than a claim about missing countries.
How is the ranking calculated?
Recorded values from World Bank, 2021, are sorted from highest to lowest. Territories are excluded, and missing values are not treated as zero. 50 of 192 countries with data are shown.
