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⚡ Fossil-Fuel Electricity Share

Fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) as a share of electricity generation.

📅 2025📏 % of electricity90 entries
97.9% – 82.2%80.6% – 58.6%58.4% – 35.6%34.1% – 16.4%15.3% – 0.0%No data
1
🇧🇩Bangladesh
97.9%
2
🇰🇼Kuwait
97.8%
3
🇹🇳Tunisia
96.0%
4
🇶🇦Qatar
95.9%
5
🇴🇲Oman
95.5%
6
🇸🇬Singapore
94.5%
7
🇮🇷Iran
94.3%
8
🇵🇷Puerto Rico
93.6%
9
🇲🇳Mongolia
91.6%
10
🇲🇩Moldova
88.8%
11
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
87.9%
12
🇪🇬Egypt
87.0%
13
🇹🇼Taiwan
86.6%
14
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
85.1%
15
🇲🇹Malta
84.0%
16
🇹🇭Thailand
83.4%
17
🇮🇱Israel
83.1%
18
🇿🇦South Africa
82.2%
19
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
80.6%
20
🇲🇾Malaysia
79.3%
21
🇵🇭Philippines
76.7%
22
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
76.2%
23
🇲🇦Morocco
76.0%
24
🇲🇽Mexico
74.1%
25
🇮🇳India
73.3%
26
🇨🇾Cyprus
72.3%
27
🇷🇸Serbia
72.2%
28
🇳🇬Nigeria
68.7%
29
🇵🇱Poland
68.5%
30
🇯🇵Japan
67.3%
31
🇷🇺Russia
64.3%
32
🇧🇴Bolivia
63.9%
33
🇦🇺Australia
61.4%
34
🇰🇷South Korea
60.0%
35
🇰🇭Cambodia
59.1%
36
🇧🇾Belarus
58.6%
37
🇦🇷Argentina
58.4%
38
🇨🇳China
58.3%
39
🇺🇸United States
57.0%
40
🇹🇷Türkiye
56.7%
41
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
56.4%
42
🇻🇳Vietnam
54.6%
43
🇲🇰North Macedonia
52.8%
44
🇮🇪Ireland
51.9%
45
🇮🇹Italy
51.2%
46
🇬🇷Greece
50.3%
47
🇳🇱Netherlands
45.8%
48
🇵🇰Pakistan
45.1%
49
🇩🇪Germany
40.9%
50
🇨🇿Czechia
40.8%

Highlights

As of 2025, Bangladesh ranks first with 97.9%, followed by Kuwait (97.8%) and Tunisia (96.0%).

The top two are virtually level: Bangladesh and Kuwait differ by less than 1%.

Across 90 countries and territories, values run from 97.9% (Bangladesh) to 0.0% (Paraguay), with a median of 50.8%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Asia, 1 from Africa, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Europe.

Source: Ember, via Our World in Data, 2025. Unit: % of electricity.

Source: Ember, via Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data) · fetched Oct 15, 2026 — Country-level share of total electricity generated; latest year with at least 10 countries.