Renewable Energy — World Ranking

The renewable share (hydro, solar, wind, bioenergy) of total final energy use. The World Bank has only reported 2021 for this indicator, so that year is used ahead of the others.

Malaysia sits at #158 of 212 countries with a value of 7.5% — the full leaderboard is in the table below.

The top 50 — Renewable Energy

Sorted with the highest value first (a higher value counts as better), data year 2021. Flags: flagcdn; every country name links to its full profile.

#	Country	Value
1	DR Congo	96.3%
2	Somalia	95.4%
3	Liberia	93.2%
4	Gabon	91.3%
5	Uganda	91%
6	Central African Republic	90.9%
7	Ethiopia	90.6%
8	Guinea-Bissau	87.4%
9	Madagascar	83.6%
10	Burundi	83.1%
11	Zambia	83%
12	Iceland	82.4%
13	Zimbabwe	82.4%
14	Bhutan	81.8%
15	Eritrea	80.7%
16	Nigeria	80.3%
17	Niger	79.6%
18	Rwanda	79.4%
19	Cameroon	79.2%
20	Tanzania	78.3%
21	Mozambique	76.9%
22	Haiti	76.7%
23	Togo	75.1%
24	Nepal	73.7%
25	Republic of the Congo	71.4%
26	Burkina Faso	71.2%
27	Mali	71.2%
28	Malawi	71.1%
29	Sierra Leone	71.1%
30	Chad	69.9%
31	Kenya	67.7%
32	Guinea	66.8%
33	Eswatini	65.4%
34	Myanmar	62.9%
35	Guatemala	62.1%
36	Norway	61.4%
37	Sudan	61%
38	Paraguay	58.8%
39	Ivory Coast	58.2%
40	Sweden	57.9%
41	Uruguay	57.8%
42	Benin	54.5%
43	Papua New Guinea	54.5%
44	Liechtenstein	53.6%
45	Angola	52.9%
46	Cambodia	52.4%
47	Laos	51.5%
48	Nicaragua	50.4%
49	Finland	50.2%
50	Solomon Islands	49.1%

Global distribution

Source: World Bank Open Data (indicator EG.FEC.RNEW.ZS, year 2021) — public data with no API key, licensed CC BY 4.0. The full profile of every country: Country Complex · live natural events: Disaster Complex.