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United Kingdom - Renewable Energy 2021

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Renewable energy consumption as % of total · World Bank

12.20% −1.40% from 2020 Global rank: 131st

United Kingdom's renewable energy was 12.20% in 2021, decreased +1.40% from 13.60% in 2020. This was the 131st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2021▾

Renewable Energy by Country - 2021
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.30%	0.1%
2nd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	95.40%	-0.1%
3rd	Liberia	93.20%	0.2%
4th	Gabon	91.30%	0.0%
5th	Uganda	91.00%	-0.7%
6th	Central African Republic	90.90%	0.0%
7th	Guinea-Bissau	87.40%	0.2%
8th	Madagascar	83.60%	-1.3%
9th	Burundi	83.10%	-0.4%
10th	Zambia	83.00%	-2.8%
11th	Iceland	82.40%	-0.6%
12th	Zimbabwe	82.40%	-2.0%
13th	Bhutan	81.80%	-2.5%
14th	Eritrea	80.70%	-0.2%
15th	Nigeria	80.30%	-1.8%
16th	Niger	79.60%	-2.8%
17th	Rwanda	79.40%	-2.8%
18th	Cameroon	79.20%	0.4%
19th	Tanzania	78.30%	-3.1%
20th	Mozambique	76.90%	-4.1%
21st	Haiti	76.70%	0.5%
22nd	Togo	75.10%	-1.4%
23rd	Nepal	73.70%	0.8%
24th	Congo, Republic of	71.40%	0.0%
25th	Burkina Faso	71.20%	-2.6%
26th	Mali	71.20%	-2.2%
27th	Malawi	71.10%	-0.6%
28th	Sierra Leone	71.10%	-5.3%
29th	Chad	69.90%	-2.8%
30th	Kenya	67.70%	-1.9%
31st	Guinea	66.80%	1.5%
32nd	Eswatini	65.40%	2.7%
33rd	Myanmar	62.90%	6.2%
34th	Guatemala	62.10%	-5.2%
35th	Norway	61.40%	0.8%
36th	Sudan	61.00%	-2.6%
37th	Paraguay	58.80%	-4.4%
38th	Côte d'Ivoire	58.20%	-5.8%
39th	Sweden	57.90%	0.2%
40th	Uruguay	57.80%	-5.6%
41st	Benin	54.50%	18.0%
42nd	Papua New Guinea	54.50%	1.7%
43rd	Liechtenstein	53.60%	-2.9%
44th	Angola	52.90%	-12.0%
45th	Cambodia	52.40%	1.9%
46th	Lao PDR	51.50%	1.8%
47th	Nicaragua	50.40%	-3.4%
48th	Finland	50.20%	6.1%
49th	Solomon Islands	49.10%	0.2%
50th	Sri Lanka	48.80%	-1.0%
51st	Gambia, The	48.60%	-2.4%
52nd	Brazil	46.50%	-7.0%
53rd	Honduras	45.90%	-8.6%
54th	Latvia	44.00%	0.5%
55th	Kiribati	42.20%	0.0%
56th	Albania	41.90%	-5.6%
57th	Pakistan	41.60%	-2.6%
58th	Comoros	41.20%	-18.9%
59th	São Tomé and Principe	40.80%	-1.9%
60th	Montenegro	39.60%	0.0%
61st	Denmark	39.50%	0.0%
62nd	Ghana	39.00%	-2.5%
63rd	Estonia	38.00%	-5.9%
64th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.60%	-2.9%
65th	Austria	36.00%	0.6%
66th	Samoa	36.00%	1.1%
67th	Senegal	35.40%	-8.5%
68th	India	34.90%	-3.3%
69th	Tajikistan	34.90%	-10.1%
70th	Costa Rica	34.20%	-6.0%
71st	Croatia	34.10%	5.2%
72nd	Lesotho	33.60%	-22.2%
73rd	Lithuania	33.20%	4.7%
74th	South Sudan	32.40%	-1.2%
75th	Portugal	32.30%	3.2%
76th	Peru	30.60%	-3.2%
77th	Namibia	30.00%	-3.8%
78th	Colombia	29.70%	-7.2%
79th	Fiji	29.70%	-6.6%
80th	New Zealand	28.90%	0.7%
81st	Panama	28.00%	-1.8%
82nd	Philippines	28.00%	-3.8%
83rd	Switzerland	27.70%	4.9%
84th	Kyrgyz Republic	27.60%	-8.0%
85th	Botswana	27.40%	-1.1%
86th	Serbia	27.20%	4.6%
87th	Belize	26.60%	-15.3%
88th	Djibouti	26.60%	-3.3%
89th	Georgia	25.20%	7.7%
90th	Bangladesh	25.00%	-8.1%
91st	Vanuatu	24.60%	-5.4%
92nd	Chile	24.20%	-9.4%
93rd	Viet Nam	24.20%	28.0%
94th	Canada	23.80%	-0.4%
95th	Romania	23.60%	-2.1%
96th	Slovenia	23.40%	3.1%
97th	Cabo Verde	22.60%	-3.4%
98th	Mauritania	22.10%	5.7%
99th	El Salvador	21.90%	-7.6%
100th	Greece	21.50%	7.0%
101st	Moldova	21.40%	-4.0%
102nd	Cuba	20.90%	-14.7%
103rd	Luxembourg	20.50%	-1.4%
104th	Bulgaria	20.40%	-3.3%
105th	Indonesia	20.20%	-7.8%
106th	Afghanistan	20.00%	9.9%
107th	North Macedonia	19.50%	-2.5%
108th	Spain	19.00%	-1.6%
109th	Thailand	19.00%	-9.1%
110th	Ecuador	18.90%	-6.4%
111th	Andorra	18.40%	-12.0%
112th	Slovak Republic	17.90%	1.7%
113th	Germany	17.60%	-4.9%
114th	Italy	17.50%	-6.4%
115th	Czechia	17.20%	1.2%
116th	France	16.20%	-3.6%
117th	Cyprus	15.60%	4.0%
118th	West Bank and Gaza	15.40%	2.7%
119th	Hungary	15.30%	3.4%
120th	China	15.20%	2.0%
121st	Poland	15.20%	-5.6%
122nd	Dominican Republic	14.80%	-7.5%
123rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	14.70%	31.3%
124th	Suriname	14.50%	-0.7%
125th	Macao SAR, China	13.60%	23.6%
126th	Guyana	13.20%	10.0%
127th	Mexico	13.00%	5.7%
128th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	12.80%	-24.3%
129th	Ireland	12.70%	-7.3%
130th	Australia	12.30%	9.8%
131st	United Kingdom	12.20%	-10.3%
132nd	Netherlands	12.20%	14.0%
133rd	Marshall Islands	12.10%	0.8%
134th	Timor-Leste	12.10%	6.1%
135th	Türkiye	12.00%	-12.4%
136th	Belgium	11.70%	-4.9%
137th	Greenland	11.60%	-1.7%
138th	Tunisia	11.60%	-10.1%
139th	Jordan	11.50%	7.5%
140th	Morocco	10.90%	-1.8%
141st	United States	10.90%	-0.9%
142nd	Jamaica	10.50%	-10.3%
143rd	Grenada	10.20%	-1.0%
144th	St. Lucia	9.70%	-3.0%
145th	South Africa	9.70%	-1.0%
146th	Argentina	9.20%	-6.1%
147th	Armenia	9.10%	8.3%
148th	Ukraine	8.90%	2.3%
149th	Aruba	8.80%	-3.3%
150th	Dominica	8.80%	2.3%
151st	Japan	8.80%	3.5%
152nd	Malta	8.60%	-6.5%
153rd	Mauritius	8.60%	-8.5%
154th	New Caledonia	8.30%	36.1%
155th	Belarus	8.20%	-2.4%
156th	Malaysia	7.50%	7.1%
157th	French Polynesia	7.40%	-9.8%
158th	Lebanon	6.80%	7.9%
159th	Israel	6.20%	10.7%
160th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	6.10%	-9.0%
161st	Virgin Islands (US)	5.90%	0.0%
162nd	Barbados	5.50%	17.0%
163rd	Equatorial Guinea	5.20%	-20.0%
164th	Faroe Islands	5.10%	-3.8%
165th	Tuvalu	5.00%	0.0%
166th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	5.00%	-3.8%
167th	Guam	4.50%	-2.2%
168th	Yemen, Republic of	3.70%	5.7%
169th	Korea	3.60%	0.0%
170th	Russian Federation	3.50%	-5.4%
171st	Isle of Man	3.20%	60.0%
172nd	Libya	3.10%	-3.1%
173rd	Mongolia	3.00%	3.4%
174th	Curaçao	2.80%	0.0%
175th	Puerto Rico (US)	2.60%	4.0%
176th	Micronesia, Federated States of	2.10%	5.0%
177th	Kazakhstan	2.00%	11.1%
178th	Tonga	1.80%	-5.3%
179th	Seychelles	1.70%	30.8%
180th	St. Kitts and Nevis	1.60%	0.0%
181st	Nauru	1.60%	23.1%
182nd	Maldives	1.40%	-12.5%
183rd	Azerbaijan	1.30%	0.0%
184th	British Virgin Islands	1.30%	0.0%
185th	Bahamas, The	1.10%	-21.4%
186th	Iraq	1.10%	0.0%
187th	Singapore	1.10%	22.2%
188th	Syrian Arab Republic	1.10%	0.0%
189th	United Arab Emirates	1.00%	11.1%
190th	Uzbekistan	1.00%	0.0%
191st	Antigua and Barbuda	0.90%	0.0%
192nd	Bermuda	0.90%	0.0%
193rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	0.90%	0.0%
194th	Palau	0.90%	0.0%
195th	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.80%	60.0%
196th	Northern Mariana Islands	0.50%	66.7%
197th	Trinidad and Tobago	0.50%	0.0%
198th	American Samoa	0.40%	0.0%
199th	Hong Kong SAR, China	0.40%	33.3%
200th	Algeria	0.10%	0.0%
201st	Kuwait	0.10%	0.0%
202nd	Oman	0.10%	0.0%
203rd	Saudi Arabia	0.10%	0.0%
204th	Turkmenistan	0.10%	0.0%
205th	Bahrain	0.00%	-
206th	Brunei Darussalam	0.00%	-
207th	Cayman Islands	0.00%	-
208th	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
209th	Qatar	0.00%	-
210th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was United Kingdom's renewable energy in 2021?▾

United Kingdom's renewable energy in 2021 was 12.20%. This ranked 131st globally.

How did United Kingdom's renewable energy change in 2021?▾

United Kingdom's renewable energy decreased by 10.3% in 2021 compared to 2020.

Which country had the highest renewable energy in 2021?▾

Congo, Democratic Republic of had the highest renewable energy in 2021 at 96.30%.

What is the renewable energy of United Kingdom in 2021?▾

The renewable energy of United Kingdom in 2021 was 12.20%. This ranked 131st globally.

How does 2021 compare to 2020 for United Kingdom's renewable energy?▾

United Kingdom's renewable energy went from 13.60% in 2020 to 12.20% in 2021, a 10.3% decrease.

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