Renewables supplied about 34% of global electricity in 2025
Renewables supplied about 34% of the world's electricity in 2025, up from 32% in 2024 and 23% in 2015. The comparison covers electricity generation, not total energy use.
Renewables supplied about 34% of global electricity in 2025, compared with 32% in 2024 and 23% in 2015. These figures describe electricity generation, not the whole energy supply. The chart compares three selected annual observations, rounded to whole percentages. It is a dated annual-data explainer, not a new September release. Data: Ember (2026), processed by Our World in Data. Original chart: SHORT INFO; values rounded. Data licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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