Our World in Data - Renewable Energy

Renewable energy sources are growing quickly and will play a vital role in tackling climate change.

July 14, 2026 Five years ago, almost no one in Latin America bought an electric car. Today, the situation is different: electric cars now make up a meaningful and fast-growing share of new car sales. The chart shows this trend across several of the region’s largest car markets, alongside the US for comparison. The data tracks the share of new passenger cars sold that are electric, which includes …

To displace fossil fuels we need to increase low-carbon energy. While renewables have been growing, a decline in nuclear has offset some of these gains.

December 25, 2024 The share of electricity produced by solar and wind in Poland almost doubled in just two years. In 2021, these renewable sources produced just 11% of its power; by 2023, this was 21%. You can see this growth in the chart above, based on electricity data from Ember. Poland still has one of the most coal-intensive electricity mixes in Europe, with coal producing 61% of its power. …

Technologies that follow Wright’s Law get cheaper at a consistent rate, as the cumulative production of that technology increases.

August 06, 2026 Renewables supplied around 6% of Morocco’s electricity in 2000; by 2025, that share was four times as high. That’s what the chart shows: the growing share of electricity production that comes from renewables. Morocco’s rise stands out in the region for how it got there – several other African countries with rising renewables shares, like Sudan, have relied primarily on hydropower.…

Sustainable Development Goal 7 is to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all”, according the United Nations. The visualizations and data below present the global perspective on where the world stands today and how it has changed over time. More information on energy access and sources can be found at the Our World in Data topic page on Energy. The UN has def…

May 08, 2024 Renewable electricity production is growing quickly, mostly thanks to the deployment of solar and wind. Ember has just published its latest Global Electricity Review, which includes final updates on electricity generation worldwide in 2023. We have updated our

March 05, 2024 Solar and wind have surpassed coal as a source of electricity generation in a number of countries, as the chart shows. This marks a substantial shift towards more sustainable sources of energy. Even in the United States, the world’s third-largest producer of coal electricity, the gap between solar and wind power, and coal is now very small. The adoption of clean energy is accelerat…