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Costa Rica - Renewable Energy 2008

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Renewable energy consumption as % of total · World Bank

40.70% −0.50% from 2007 Global rank: 65th

Costa Rica's renewable energy was 40.70% in 2008, decreased +0.50% from 41.20% in 2007. This was the 65th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2008▾

Renewable Energy by Country - 2008
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Congo, Democratic Republic of	97.00%	-0.2%
2nd	Burundi	95.00%	-0.3%
3rd	Uganda	94.10%	0.0%
4th	Central African Republic	93.60%	3.0%
5th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	93.40%	0.4%
6th	Liberia	91.80%	2.2%
7th	Rwanda	90.60%	0.3%
8th	Nepal	90.50%	-0.9%
9th	Tanzania	90.30%	-0.3%
10th	Zambia	89.80%	-1.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	88.40%	0.6%
12th	Mozambique	88.10%	0.7%
13th	Bhutan	87.80%	-4.6%
14th	Gabon	87.30%	0.0%
15th	Madagascar	86.40%	0.2%
16th	Niger	86.10%	-0.1%
17th	Sierra Leone	86.00%	-0.3%
18th	Nigeria	85.70%	-1.6%
19th	Myanmar	85.60%	6.3%
20th	Burkina Faso	83.50%	0.7%
21st	Zimbabwe	81.60%	4.6%
22nd	Eritrea	81.40%	2.9%
23rd	Cameroon	80.80%	0.0%
24th	Malawi	80.40%	-2.2%
25th	Guinea	80.20%	-0.2%
26th	Chad	79.80%	-3.2%
27th	Haiti	79.60%	0.4%
28th	Kenya	78.20%	0.0%
29th	Togo	76.50%	-4.3%
30th	Mali	75.00%	-4.9%
31st	Côte d'Ivoire	74.20%	-2.8%
32nd	Cambodia	74.10%	-0.9%
33rd	Iceland	74.00%	9.5%
34th	Comoros	73.40%	-1.3%
35th	Lao PDR	69.30%	-2.0%
36th	Eswatini	67.80%	1.3%
37th	Guatemala	66.50%	5.1%
38th	Paraguay	65.80%	-3.8%
39th	Sudan	63.50%	-3.2%
40th	Sri Lanka	61.60%	2.3%
41st	Norway	58.50%	1.9%
42nd	Ghana	57.30%	5.1%
43rd	Papua New Guinea	56.90%	-0.4%
44th	Congo, Republic of	56.80%	-5.6%
45th	Gambia, The	56.30%	-1.7%
46th	Angola	55.40%	-5.9%
47th	Lesotho	55.00%	-0.5%
48th	Benin	54.80%	0.6%
49th	Tajikistan	54.60%	1.5%
50th	Nicaragua	53.80%	2.3%
51st	Liechtenstein	53.00%	-0.7%
52nd	Vanuatu	52.10%	1.0%
53rd	Honduras	50.00%	-1.2%
54th	Kiribati	49.70%	2.7%
55th	Brazil	47.00%	-0.4%
56th	Solomon Islands	46.70%	-1.5%
57th	Pakistan	46.60%	3.8%
58th	São Tomé and Principe	46.00%	-3.6%
59th	Bangladesh	45.20%	-4.2%
60th	Samoa	45.00%	4.2%
61st	Uruguay	44.10%	2.1%
62nd	Sweden	43.20%	3.3%
63rd	Fiji	42.10%	16.9%
64th	Indonesia	41.10%	2.8%
65th	Costa Rica	40.70%	-1.2%
66th	Senegal	39.80%	-0.5%
67th	Timor-Leste	39.70%	-5.3%
68th	India	39.40%	-5.1%
69th	Viet Nam	39.30%	-6.2%
70th	Montenegro	38.80%	-8.3%
71st	Georgia	36.30%	0.3%
72nd	Albania	35.80%	11.9%
73rd	Mauritania	35.80%	0.6%
74th	Finland	34.60%	8.8%
75th	Philippines	33.90%	4.6%
76th	Latvia	33.70%	1.8%
77th	Peru	33.70%	-6.4%
78th	Djibouti	33.10%	1.8%
79th	Guyana	32.60%	-1.5%
80th	Namibia	32.50%	-11.0%
81st	El Salvador	31.50%	11.7%
82nd	Chile	30.80%	1.0%
83rd	Colombia	30.80%	-0.6%
84th	Belize	29.80%	6.4%
85th	Austria	29.70%	2.4%
86th	Botswana	27.80%	-4.1%
87th	Suriname	26.20%	6.5%
88th	New Zealand	26.10%	-3.3%
89th	Croatia	24.10%	6.2%
90th	Cabo Verde	23.80%	13.3%
91st	Panama	23.40%	2.6%
92nd	Portugal	23.20%	0.4%
93rd	Thailand	22.60%	4.6%
94th	Kyrgyz Republic	22.00%	-10.2%
95th	Canada	21.60%	0.0%
96th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	21.30%	-3.6%
97th	Afghanistan	21.20%	-26.4%
98th	Estonia	20.50%	10.2%
99th	Romania	20.40%	12.1%
100th	West Bank and Gaza	20.10%	-2.0%
101st	Switzerland	19.60%	1.6%
102nd	Cuba	18.70%	0.5%
103rd	Denmark	18.50%	4.5%
104th	Lithuania	18.30%	7.0%
105th	Dominican Republic	17.70%	-1.1%
106th	Slovenia	17.60%	-4.3%
107th	Andorra	17.00%	2.4%
108th	North Macedonia	15.60%	-0.6%
109th	St. Lucia	15.50%	-4.9%
110th	Serbia	15.50%	10.7%
111th	Ecuador	15.30%	-3.8%
112th	Marshall Islands	14.80%	-2.6%
113th	Tunisia	14.60%	2.1%
114th	Morocco	14.40%	-13.3%
115th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	14.30%	-3.4%
116th	China	14.10%	-5.4%
117th	Mauritius	12.70%	-19.1%
118th	Türkiye	12.50%	0.0%
119th	European Union	12.46%	6.0%
120th	Grenada	10.80%	9.1%
121st	Italy	10.80%	24.1%
122nd	France	10.50%	11.7%
123rd	Germany	10.20%	-2.9%
124th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	10.20%	-6.4%
125th	Bulgaria	9.90%	12.5%
126th	Mexico	9.80%	3.2%
127th	Spain	9.70%	7.8%
128th	South Africa	9.70%	11.5%
129th	French Polynesia	9.30%	-5.1%
130th	Czechia	9.00%	8.4%
131st	Hungary	9.00%	0.0%
132nd	Israel	8.90%	32.8%
133rd	Greece	8.30%	2.5%
134th	Dominica	8.00%	2.6%
135th	Poland	8.00%	9.6%
136th	New Caledonia	7.80%	34.5%
137th	Argentina	7.70%	0.0%
138th	Barbados	7.60%	-11.6%
139th	Slovak Republic	7.60%	-7.3%
140th	Equatorial Guinea	7.20%	-15.3%
141st	Belarus	7.10%	-2.7%
142nd	Greenland	6.90%	0.0%
143rd	Australia	6.80%	-2.9%
144th	United States	6.80%	7.9%
145th	Armenia	6.40%	-8.6%
146th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	5.90%	-1.7%
147th	Jamaica	5.90%	11.3%
148th	Cyprus	5.70%	32.6%
149th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	5.30%	12.8%
150th	Lebanon	5.10%	-30.1%
151st	Moldova	4.90%	11.4%
152nd	Macao SAR, China	4.70%	38.2%
153rd	Mongolia	4.70%	0.0%
154th	Faroe Islands	4.50%	0.0%
155th	Japan	4.40%	2.3%
156th	Ireland	4.20%	20.0%
157th	Belgium	4.00%	17.6%
158th	Luxembourg	4.00%	11.1%
159th	Netherlands	3.90%	5.4%
160th	Russian Federation	3.30%	-10.8%
161st	Azerbaijan	3.10%	-18.4%
162nd	Malaysia	3.00%	7.1%
163rd	Libya	2.90%	-6.5%
164th	Jordan	2.70%	17.4%
165th	Ukraine	2.70%	12.5%
166th	United Kingdom	2.40%	33.3%
167th	Bahamas, The	2.00%	-42.9%
168th	Tonga	2.00%	-9.1%
169th	Maldives	1.50%	0.0%
170th	Micronesia, Federated States of	1.40%	16.7%
171st	Isle of Man	1.30%	-31.6%
172nd	Syrian Arab Republic	1.20%	-20.0%
173rd	Iraq	1.10%	-45.0%
174th	Kazakhstan	1.10%	-38.9%
175th	Korea	1.10%	10.0%
176th	Seychelles	0.90%	-10.0%
177th	Uzbekistan	0.80%	-11.1%
178th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	0.70%	-46.2%
179th	British Virgin Islands	0.70%	0.0%
180th	Virgin Islands (US)	0.70%	0.0%
181st	Yemen, Republic of	0.70%	-12.5%
182nd	Bermuda	0.50%	0.0%
183rd	Curaçao	0.50%	-16.7%
184th	Puerto Rico (US)	0.50%	0.0%
185th	Singapore	0.50%	0.0%
186th	Trinidad and Tobago	0.50%	25.0%
187th	Guam	0.40%	0.0%
188th	Algeria	0.30%	-25.0%
189th	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.30%	0.0%
190th	Aruba	0.20%	0.0%
191st	Malta	0.20%	0.0%
192nd	Tuvalu	0.20%	-
193rd	United Arab Emirates	0.10%	0.0%
194th	Hong Kong SAR, China	0.10%	0.0%
195th	Nauru	0.10%	0.0%
196th	Qatar	0.10%	0.0%
197th	Turkmenistan	0.10%	0.0%
198th	American Samoa	0.00%	-
199th	Antigua and Barbuda	0.00%	-
200th	Bahrain	0.00%	-
201st	Brunei Darussalam	0.00%	-
202nd	Cayman Islands	0.00%	-
203rd	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
204th	St. Kitts and Nevis	0.00%	-
205th	Kuwait	0.00%	-
206th	Northern Mariana Islands	0.00%	-
207th	Oman	0.00%	-
208th	Palau	0.00%	-
209th	Saudi Arabia	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Costa Rica's renewable energy in 2008?▾

Costa Rica's renewable energy in 2008 was 40.70%. This ranked 65th globally.

How did Costa Rica's renewable energy change in 2008?▾

Costa Rica's renewable energy decreased by 1.2% in 2008 compared to 2007.

Which country had the highest renewable energy in 2008?▾

Congo, Democratic Republic of had the highest renewable energy in 2008 at 97.00%.

What is the renewable energy of Costa Rica in 2008?▾

The renewable energy of Costa Rica in 2008 was 40.70%. This ranked 65th globally.

How does 2008 compare to 2007 for Costa Rica's renewable energy?▾

Costa Rica's renewable energy went from 41.20% in 2007 to 40.70% in 2008, a 1.2% decrease.

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