Share of renewable energy in electricity
Electricity generated from renewable sources as a share of gross electricity consumption, using the SHARES methodology with normalised hydro and wind output.
30 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.
Trend over time
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% of gross electricity consumption. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Cyprus | Denmark |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27.5%p (provisional) | 77.7%p (provisional) |
| 2024 | 24.1% | 79.7% |
| 2023 | 20.9% | 79.0% |
| 2022 | 17.0% | 76.7% |
| 2021 | 14.8% | 73.2% |
| 2020 | 12.0% | 65.3% |
| 2019 | 9.8% | 65.3% |
| 2018 | 9.4% | 62.4% |
| 2017 | 8.9% | 59.9% |
| 2016 | 8.6% | 53.7% |
| 2015 | 8.4% | 51.3% |
| 2014 | 7.4% | 48.5% |
| 2013 | 6.7% | 43.1% |
| 2012 | 4.9% | 38.7% |
| 2011 | 3.4% | 35.9% |
| 2010 | 1.4% | 32.7% |
| 2009 | 0.6% | 28.3% |
| 2008 | 0.3% | 25.9% |
| 2007 | 0.1% | 25.0% |
| 2006 | 0.0% | 24.0% |
| 2005 | 0.0% | 24.6% |
| 2004 | 0.0% | 23.8% |
Flags: p provisional . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 30 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Norway (122.0%) and the lowest Malta (11.2%).
- Half of the countries are above 47.8% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 26 countries and fell in 4.
- The figure for the European Union was 49.9% in 2025, against 37.4% in 2020 (+12.5 percentage points).
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- 1 Norway 122.0%p (provisional)
- 2 Austria 90.8%p (provisional)
- 3 Sweden 89.2%p (provisional)
- 4 Denmark 77.7%p (provisional)
- 5 Portugal 65.6%p (provisional)
- 6 Montenegro 63.1%p (provisional)
- 7 Greece 60.9%p (provisional)
- 8 Spain 60.7%p (provisional)
- 9 Lithuania 59.9%p (provisional)
- 10 Croatia 58.8%p (provisional)
- 11 Germany 57.9%p (provisional)
- 12 Latvia 57.6%p (provisional)
- 13 Finland 56.6%p (provisional)
- 14 Netherlands 54.7%p (provisional)
- 15 Romania 49.9%p (provisional)
- 16 Slovenia 45.6%p (provisional)
- 17 Italy 43.5%p (provisional)
- 18 Ireland 41.7%p (provisional)
- 19 Estonia 41.1%p (provisional)
- 20 Bulgaria 34.4%p (provisional)
- 21 Belgium 34.3%p (provisional)
- 22 France 33.1%p (provisional)
- 23 Poland 32.5%p (provisional)
- 24 Hungary 28.3%p (provisional)
- 25 Cyprus 27.5%p (provisional)
- 26 Slovakia 24.1%p (provisional)
- 27 Luxembourg 23.3%p (provisional)
- 28 Moldova 22.3%p (provisional)
- 29 Czechia 19.2%p (provisional)
- 30 Malta 11.2%p (provisional)
- European Union 49.9%p (provisional)
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Grey: no value for 2025. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.