World: the Rise of Wind ๐
World: share of electricity from wind, 2000-2027.
World: 0.2% wind (2000) โ 9% (2025) โ 9% (2026, estimate) โ 9% (2027, projection)
What does the number mean? World 9% wind = of every 100 units (kWh) of electricity made in World in 2026, about 9 came from wind.
What is it? Wind turbines turn the wind into electricity: no fuel and no CO2, but the output goes up and down with the weather.
Solid line = measured data (2000-2025); dotted = 2026 estimate and 2027 projection.
What is measured? Share of electricity = the part of all the electricity generated inside a country in one year that comes from this source (measured at the power plants, imports not counted). Clean = renewables (hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy, geothermal) + nuclear. Fossil = coal + gas + oil.
Data: Ember, Yearly and Monthly Electricity Data (2026 release); before 2000: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy via Our World in Data. 2025: latest measured year (a trend estimate for small countries without 2025 data). 2026: estimate = 2025 share + the change of the latest 12 months of monthly data. 2027: projection (IEA World Energy Outlook 2025, Stated Policies Scenario, for the big countries and regions; half the recent trend for all others).
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