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Renewable energy

Annual electricity generation from renewables, gigawatt hours (2017)

Distribution of Asia Power Index countriesThis chart shows the distribution of countries based on their weighted score for renewable energy. Embed

Renewable energy

Annual electricity generation from renewables, gigawatt hours (2017)

  • Rankings
  • Indicators
Rank Score Trend Country / Territory
Weighting × 1 Source Year
  • 1 100.0 — China
    1615689 GWh 2017
  • 2 43.6 United States
    704322 GWh* 2018
  • 3 13.5 — India
    218897 GWh 2017
  • 4 11.7 Russia
    188264 GWh 2017
  • 5 10.4 Japan
    168351 GWh* 2018
  • 6 5.5 Vietnam
    89305 GWh 2017
  • 7 +2 2.5 — Australia
    41125 GWh* 2018
  • 7 +9 2.5 Taiwan
    41125 GWh 2017
  • 9 −1 2.3 — New Zealand
    36363 GWh* 2018
  • 10 1.9 — Indonesia
    31431 GWh 2017
  • 11 −4 1.9 Pakistan
    30794 GWh 2017
  • 12 1.7 — Malaysia
    26905 GWh 2017
  • 13 −2 1.4 — Philippines
    22176 GWh 2017
  • 14 1.2 — South Korea
    19004 GWh* 2018
  • 15 +2 0.9 — Thailand
    15180 GWh 2017
  • 16 −3 0.9 — Laos
    14039 GWh* 2015
  • 17 −2 0.7 — North Korea
    11900 GWh 2017
  • 18 0.6 — Myanmar
    9744 GWh* 2016
  • 19 +1 0.3 — Nepal
    4639 GWh 2017
  • 20 −1 0.3 — Sri Lanka
    4527 GWh 2017
  • 21 0.2 — Cambodia
    2738 GWh 2017
  • 22 0.1 — Bangladesh
    1223 GWh 2017
  • 23 0.1 — Papua New Guinea
    1035 GWh* 2016
  • 24 −1 0.0 — Mongolia
    397 GWh 2017
  • 25 −1 0.0 — Singapore
    169 GWh 2017
  • 26 0.0 — Brunei
    2 GWh 2017
Dataset