Wind power by country

The worldwide total cumulative installed electricity generation capacity from wind power has increased rapidly since the start of the third millennium, and as of the end of 2022, it amounts to almost 900 GW. Since 2010, more than half of all new wind power was added outside the traditional markets of Europe and North America, mainly driven by the continuing boom in China and India. China alone had over 40% of the world's capacity by 2022.^[3]

Share of electricity production from wind, 2022^[1]

Global map of wind speed at 100 m above surface level^[2]

Wind power is used on a commercial basis in more than half of all the countries of the world.^[4] Denmark produced 55% of its electricity from wind in 2022, a larger share than any other country. Latvia's wind capacity grew by 75%, the largest percent increase in 2022.^[3]

In November 2018, wind power generation in Scotland was higher than the country's electricity consumption during the month.^[5] Wind power's share of worldwide electricity usage in 2022 was 7.3%, up from 8.9% from the prior year.^[3] In Europe, wind was 11.2% of generation in 2022.^[3] In 2018, upcoming wind power markets rose from 8% to 10% across the Middle East, Latin America, South East Asia, and Africa.^[6]

Generation by country

 

Yearly wind generation by continent^[3]

 

Wind generation by country, 2021^[3]

Number of countries with wind
capacities in the gigawatt-scale

Growing number of wind gigawatt-markets

  Over 1 GW

• 2021
  2019
  2018
  2017
  2016
  2015
  2012
  2011
  2010
  2009
  2008
  2006
  2005
  2004
  1999
  1997
  1995
  1986

  Over 10 GW

• 2021
  2018
  2016
  2015
  2013
  2009
  2008
  2006
  2002

  Over 100 GW

• 2019
  2014

The following table lists these data for each country:

• total generation from wind in terawatt-hours,
• percent of that country's generation that was wind,
• total wind capacity in gigawatts,
• percent growth in wind capacity, and
• the wind capacity factor for that year.

Data are sourced from Ember and refer to the year 2022 unless otherwise specified.^[3] The table only includes countries with more than 0.1 TWh of generation.

Country	Gen (TWh)	% gen.	Cap. (GW)	% cap. growth	Cap. fac.
World	2098.46	7.3	898.86	8.9	27%
China	762.70	8.6	365.96	11.2	24%
United States	434.30	10.1	140.86	5.9	35%
Germany	124.91	22.3	66.29	3.9	22%
United Kingdom	80.26	24.6	28.76	11.7	32%
Brazil	80.00	11.8	24.16	14.2	38%
India	70.05	3.8	41.93	4.6	19%
Spain	61.90	21.7	29.31	5.0	24%
France	38.56	8.2	21.12	12.7	21%
Canada	38.13	6.0	15.30	7.0	28%
Turkey	35.14	10.8	11.40	7.5	35%
Sweden	33.33	19.4	14.56	20.1	26%
Australia	31.65	11.6	10.56	0.0	34%
Netherlands	21.49	17.7	8.75	12.6	28%
Italy	20.28	7.1	11.78	4.7	20%
Mexico	20.23	5.8	7.31	2.2	32%
Poland	19.73	11.0	7.99	14.6	28%
Denmark	18.93	55.0	7.09	1.0	30%
Norway	15.90	10.4	5.13	1.6	35%
Argentina	14.02	9.8	3.31	0.6	48%
Portugal	13.28	28.3	5.46	0.6	28%
Belgium	12.16	12.8	5.25	6.1	26%
Finland	11.72	16.1	5.61	72.1	24%
Ireland	11.18	33.3	4.62	6.5	28%
Greece	10.87	20.8	4.88	5.0	25%
South Africa	9.69	4.5	3.10	4.7	36%
Chile	8.82	10.6	3.83	22.0	26%
Japan	8.17	0.8	4.37	2.6	21%
Vietnam	8.04	3.1	4.63	12.4	20%
Romania	6.97	12.6	3.01	0.0	26%
Austria	6.96	10.6	3.74	9.7	21%
Russia	5.51	0.5	2.22	13.3	28%
Morocco	5.11	12.4	1.47	2.8	40%
Uruguay	4.80	30.5	1.52	0.0	36%
Egypt	4.23	2.0	1.64	0.0	29%
Pakistan	4.12	2.7	1.44	7.5	33%
Taiwan	3.50	1.2	1.58	53.4	25%
South Korea	3.37	0.6	1.91	11.1	20%
New Zealand	3.20	7.3	0.91	0.0	40%
Thailand	3.00	1.6	1.55	0.0	22%
Kazakhstan	2.28	2.0	1.11	63.2	23%
Croatia	2.28	16.1	1.04	5.1	25%
Peru	1.96	3.3	0.41	0.0	55%
Kenya	1.68	13.6	0.44	0.0	44%
Lithuania	1.59	38.0	0.81	20.9	22%
Jordan (2021)	1.57	7.2	0.62	19.2	29%
Bulgaria	1.44	2.9	0.70	0.0	23%
Costa Rica	1.36	10.8	0.39	0.0	40%
Dominican Republic (2021)	1.29	7.3	0.37	0.0	40%
Iran	1.25	0.4	0.34	9.7	42%
Philippines	0.95	0.8	0.44	0.0	25%
Serbia	0.94	2.7	0.40	0.0	27%
Ukraine	0.83	0.7	1.76	0.0	5%
Honduras (2021)	0.80	6.7	0.24	0.0	38%
Panama (2021)	0.66	5.9	0.27	0.0	28%
Czech Republic	0.65	0.8	0.34	0.0	22%
Estonia	0.63	7.5	0.31	0.0	23%
Nicaragua (2021)	0.63	13.6	0.19	0.0	38%
Ethiopia (2021)	0.61	4.2	0.32	0.0	22%
Hungary	0.61	1.7	0.32	0.0	22%
Bolivia	0.48	4.3	0.13	0.0	42%
Tunisia	0.42	2.1	0.25	0.0	19%
Mongolia	0.42	5.8	0.16	0.0	30%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.39	2.4	0.14	0.0	32%
Sri Lanka (2021)	0.37	2.3	0.25	38.9	17%
Indonesia	0.36	0.1	0.15	0.0	27%
Guatemala (2021)	0.32	2.2	0.11	0.0	33%
Luxembourg	0.31	25.2	0.17	21.4	21%
Montenegro	0.31	9.4	0.12	0.0	29%
Jamaica (2021)	0.30	6.9	0.10	0.0	34%
Senegal (2021)	0.25	4.5	0.16	0.0	18%
Cyprus	0.22	4.2	0.16	0.0	16%
Israel (2021)	0.19	0.3	0.03	0.0	72%
Belarus (2021)	0.19	0.4	0.11	0.0	20%
Latvia	0.19	3.8	0.14	75.0	15%
Switzerland	0.17	0.3	0.09	0.0	22%
Puerto Rico (2021)	0.16	0.9	0.10	0.0	18%
Mauritania (2021)	0.15	8.0	0.03	0.0	57%
Aruba (2021)	0.14	15.1	0.03	0.0	53%
Kosovo	0.13	1.9	0.14	0.0	11%
North Macedonia	0.11	1.9	0.04	0.0	31%

See also

•   Wind power portal

References

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