Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2024

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Hydro Share of Electricity Generation, 2024: every country, as published by Ember.

Country	Hydro (% of generation)	Renewables (% of generation)	Total generation (TWh)
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia	100.000	100.000	11.00
ParaguayPRYSouth America	99.434	100.000	42.41
NepalNPLSouthern Asia	98.832	100.000	11.13
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	95.923	100.000	8.34
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia	94.595	94.595	22.20
MalawiMWIEastern Africa	92.350	95.628	1.83
VenezuelaVENSouth America	91.102	91.139	80.13
NorwayNORNorthern Europe	88.826	98.606	157.11
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia	88.776	88.776	15.77
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	86.207	87.475	19.72
UgandaUGAEastern Africa	86.059	97.074	5.81
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	85.714	95.238	0.21
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	84.171	100.000	15.92
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	82.365	83.426	19.79
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia	78.966	79.828	13.93
GreenlandGRLNorthern America	78.333	83.333	0.60
SudanSDNNorthern Africa	77.861	79.689	14.77
LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	76.467	76.716	52.31
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	75.758	86.869	0.99
GuineaGINWestern Africa	74.442	75.186	4.03
BurundiBDIEastern Africa	73.469	75.510	0.49
Costa RicaCRICentral America	72.727	99.909	11.00
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	72.039	73.140	7.26
IcelandISLNorthern Europe	70.656	100.000	19.05
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	70.558	73.701	15.59

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 12.854. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Renewables (% of generation)

  Highest6 share it

  Lowest4 share it

  Middle country: 32.491

• Total generation (TWh)

  HighestChina10,025.01

  LowestMontserrat0.01

  Middle country: 8.93

• +0 / −8countries joined / left
• 108values changed, of 164 in both
• 47 · 61rose · fell
• 56unchanged

− Central African Republic− Comoros− Dominica− Faroe Islands− São Tomé and Príncipe− British Virgin Islands− United States Virgin Islands− Vanuatu

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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  Ember’s own file, on its own site.

  release_generation_yearly_global.csv

What this site changed: 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.

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