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Gas Share of Electricity Generation

25 years, 2000–2024 · 163 countries · 3 measures

This is the share of a country’s electricity generation that came from natural gas. It is the fuel behind most of the power in the Gulf, North Africa, Central Asia and much of the Americas.

This site holds every year from 2000 to 2024, read from Ember’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2024
Held
25 years · 4,270 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

0125 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

2000bar height: countries covered, up to 1722024
Every year of Gas Share of Electricity Generation held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2024Newest163−8October 2, 2026CSV
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2023171−1October 2, 2026CSV
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2022172±0October 2, 2026CSV
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2021172±0October 2, 2026CSV
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2020172±0October 2, 2026CSV
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2019172±0October 2, 2026CSV
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2018172±0October 2, 2026CSV
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2017172±0October 2, 2026CSV
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2016172±0October 2, 2026CSV
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2015172±0October 2, 2026CSV
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2014172±0October 2, 2026CSV
Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2013172±0October 2, 2026CSV
Show all 25 years

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: gas-electricity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Gas Share of Electricity Generation: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1630
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1630
Gas (% of generation)gas_shareHeadlineThe headline figure: Natural gas (% of electricity generated).Number · up to 3 decimals0.0071 share it99.97Turkmenistanmiddle 2.59930
Fossil fuels (% of generation)fossil_shareMeasureShare of the electricity generated that came from coal, gas and other fossil fuels such as oil and diesel, in per cent.Number · up to 3 decimals0.0006 share it100.0004 share itmiddle 62.6801530
Total generation (TWh)generation_twhMeasureTotal electricity generated in the country during the year, from all sources, in terawatt-hours.Number · up to 3 decimals0.01Montserrat10,025.01Chinamiddle 9.031580

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

03172 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Gas Share of Electricity Generation, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa505050505050505050504946
Americas383838383838383838383835
Asia363636363636363636363636
Europe343434343434343434343433
Oceania141414141414141414141413
All172172172172172172172172172172171163

The newest 12 of 25 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    − Central African Republic− Comoros− Dominica− Faroe Islands− São Tomé and Príncipe− British Virgin Islands− United States Virgin Islands− Vanuatu
  • 2023
    − Lesotho
  • 2012
    + South Sudan
  • 2005
    + Montenegro
  • 2003
    + North Korea

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    Ember

  2. 2 · Their file

    Gas Share of Electricity Generation 2024

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    October 2, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    25 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as gas-electricity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 3 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From Ember’s Yearly Electricity Data, the same public download its own data explorer offers. The percentages are Ember’s own, not recomputed here; where Ember prints no gas row for a country, the country is left out rather than shown as zero. Some countries are not shown — India, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Russia, Germany and the United Kingdom among them — because Ember takes their figures from publishers whose terms do not allow reuse on a commercial site.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked October 2, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: Ember, Gas Share of Electricity Generation, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

Ember. Gas Share of Electricity Generation, 2000–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gas-electricity

The publisher’s own citation: Ember. Yearly Electricity Data. London: Ember (Ember Energy Research CIC).

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

07Questions

Gas Share of Electricity Generation: questions and answers

What is the Gas Share of Electricity Generation?

This is the share of a country’s electricity generation that came from natural gas. It is the fuel behind most of the power in the Gulf, North Africa, Central Asia and much of the Americas.

Which years of the Gas Share of Electricity Generation can I download?

All 25, from 2000 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does Ember rank countries on it?

No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to Ember. The licence text is linked on this page.

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