Hydropower Share of Electricity by Country 2024
About This Dataset
Hydropower Share of Electricity by Country 2024
Share of each country's total electricity generation that came from hydropower in 2024, measured by Ember from reported national grid data. Covers countries that generated at least 10 TWh of electricity in the year, so very small island grids do not dominate the ranking.
Analysis
Bhutan runs on 100.0% hydropower, with Paraguay at 99.4% and Nepal at 98.8% close behind. Hydro is the one clean source that can carry an entire national grid on its own, which is why this list overlaps almost completely with the cleanest-grid ranking. Geography decides membership: mountains and large rivers, not wealth. Norway at 88.8% is the only high-income country in the top ten, while the largest system here is Venezuela at 91.1%. Six of the fifteen are in Africa or Central Asia.
Source:
Ember - Yearly Electricity Data
Key Findings
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Bhutan leads in Hydropower Share of Electricity Generation with 100 in 2024.
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Average Hydropower Share of Electricity Generation in 2024: 87.82 · median: 88.80.
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Gap in 2024: Bhutan is 1.4× larger than Costa Rica.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Ember - Yearly Electricity Data
- Coverage
- 15 entities · 2024 · 15 observations
- Measure
- Hydropower Share of Electricity Generation
- Last updated
- 15 August 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
Data Sources & References
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