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Oil as a share of electricity generation.

📅 2025📏 % of electricity90 entries
72.3% – 4.6%4.5% – 2.5%2.5% – 1.2%1.0% – 0.3%0.2% – 0.0%No data
1
🇨🇾Cyprus
72.3%
2
🇵🇷Puerto Rico
47.6%
3
🇪🇪Estonia
39.1%
4
🇰🇼Kuwait
35.8%
5
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
20.4%
6
🇪🇨Ecuador
17.9%
7
🇸🇻El Salvador
13.5%
8
🇧🇩Bangladesh
12.1%
9
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
10.8%
10
🇰🇪Kenya
10.0%
11
🇲🇽Mexico
9.4%
12
🇵🇰Pakistan
9.2%
13
🇪🇬Egypt
7.4%
14
🇬🇷Greece
7.2%
15
🇧🇪Belgium
6.4%
16
🇲🇳Mongolia
5.9%
17
🇱🇹Lithuania
5.8%
18
🇮🇷Iran
4.6%
19
🇱🇺Luxembourg
4.5%
20
🇦🇹Austria
4.5%
21
🇬🇧United Kingdom
4.4%
22
🇧🇾Belarus
4.0%
23
🇳🇱Netherlands
3.9%
24
🇦🇷Argentina
3.9%
25
🇩🇪Germany
3.8%
26
🇵🇱Poland
3.8%
27
🇩🇰Denmark
3.7%
28
🇲🇦Morocco
3.6%
29
🇴🇲Oman
3.6%
30
🇲🇩Moldova
3.6%
31
🇪🇸Spain
3.5%
32
🇨🇴Colombia
3.1%
33
🇮🇪Ireland
3.0%
34
🇵🇹Portugal
2.6%
35
🇮🇹Italy
2.6%
36
🇰🇭Cambodia
2.5%
37
🇸🇰Slovakia
2.5%
38
🇲🇰North Macedonia
2.5%
39
🇯🇵Japan
2.5%
40
🇸🇬Singapore
2.4%
41
🇫🇮Finland
2.3%
42
🇦🇺Australia
2.2%
43
🇺🇾Uruguay
2.2%
44
🇨🇭Switzerland
1.9%
45
🇫🇷France
1.8%
46
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
1.7%
47
🇧🇷Brazil
1.7%
48
🇹🇼Taiwan
1.6%
49
🇳🇿New Zealand
1.5%
50
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
1.5%

Highlights

As of 2025, Cyprus ranks first with 72.3%, followed by Puerto Rico (47.6%) and Estonia (39.1%).

Cyprus is 1.5 times higher than Puerto Rico, the runner-up.

Across 90 countries and territories, values run from 72.3% (Cyprus) to 0.0% (Tajikistan), with a median of 1.8%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from the Americas, 3 from Asia, 2 from Europe and 1 from Africa.

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.