Data

Share of final energy use that comes from renewable sources

What you should know about this indicator

How is this data described by its producer?

Renewable energy share in the total final energy consumption (%)

Further information available at: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-07-02-01.pdf

Share of final energy use that comes from renewable sources
Renewable energy share in the total final energy consumption (%)
Source
United Nations Statistics Division and International Energy Agency and International Renewable Energy Agencyprocessed by Our World in Data
Last updated
October 29, 2025
Next expected update
October 2027
Date range
2000–2022
Unit
%

Sources and processing

United Nations Statistics Division and International Energy Agency and International Renewable Energy Agency – IEA (2024), World Energy Balances; Energy Balances, UN Statistics Division (2024), IEA (2024), World Energy Balances, Energy Balances, UN Statistics Division (2024)

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) dataset is the primary collection of data tracking progress towards the SDG indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources.

Retrieved on
October 29, 2025
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
United Nations Statistics Division and International Energy Agency and International Renewable Energy Agency via UN SDG Indicators Database (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (accessed 2025). More information available at: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-07-02-01.pdf.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) dataset is the primary collection of data tracking progress towards the SDG indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources.

Retrieved on
October 29, 2025
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
United Nations Statistics Division and International Energy Agency and International Renewable Energy Agency via UN SDG Indicators Database (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (accessed 2025). More information available at: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-07-02-01.pdf.

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United Nations Statistics Division and International Energy Agency and International Renewable Energy Agency – processed by Our World in Data

Full citation

United Nations Statistics Division and International Energy Agency and International Renewable Energy Agency – processed by Our World in Data. “Share of final energy use that comes from renewable sources” [dataset]. United Nations Statistics Division and International Energy Agency and International Renewable Energy Agency, “IEA (2024), World Energy Balances; Energy Balances, UN Statistics Division (2024), IEA (2024), World Energy Balances, Energy Balances, UN Statistics Division (2024)” [original data]. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/share-of-final-energy-consumption-from-renewable-sources.html (archived on March 4, 2026).

Quick download

Download the data shown in this chart as a ZIP file containing a CSV file, metadata in JSON format, and a README. The CSV file can be opened in Excel, Google Sheets, and other data analysis tools.

Data API

Use these URLs to programmatically access this chart's data and configure your requests with the options below. Our documentation provides more information on how to use the API, and you can find a few code examples below.

Data URL (CSV format)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-final-energy-consumption-from-renewable-sources.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false
Metadata URL (JSON format)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-final-energy-consumption-from-renewable-sources.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false

Code examples

Examples of how to load this data into different data analysis tools.

Excel / Google Sheets
=IMPORTDATA("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-final-energy-consumption-from-renewable-sources.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Python with Pandas
import pandas as pd
import requests

# Fetch the data.
df = pd.read_csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-final-energy-consumption-from-renewable-sources.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", storage_options = {'User-Agent': 'Our World In Data data fetch/1.0'})

# Fetch the metadata
metadata = requests.get("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-final-energy-consumption-from-renewable-sources.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false").json()
R
library(jsonlite)

# Fetch the data
df <- read.csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-final-energy-consumption-from-renewable-sources.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")

# Fetch the metadata
metadata <- fromJSON("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-final-energy-consumption-from-renewable-sources.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
Stata
import delimited "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-final-energy-consumption-from-renewable-sources.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", encoding("utf-8") clear