Electricity – from hydroelectric plants

This entry measures the capacity of plants that generate electricity by water-driven turbines, expressed as a share of the country's total generating capacity.

Country Comparison Ranking

• Afghanistan

  52% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Albania

  95% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Algeria

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• American Samoa

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Andorra

  23% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)

• Angola

  64% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Antigua and Barbuda

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Argentina

  24% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Armenia

  32% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Aruba

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Australia

  11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Austria

  43% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Azerbaijan

  14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bahamas, The

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bahrain

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bangladesh

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Barbados

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Belarus

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Belgium

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Belize

  27% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Benin

  9% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bermuda

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bhutan

  99% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bolivia

  18% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina

  51% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Botswana

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Brazil

  64% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• British Virgin Islands

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Brunei

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Bulgaria

  23% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Burkina Faso

  9% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Burma

  61% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Burundi

  73% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cabo Verde

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cambodia

  63% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cameroon

  47% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Canada

  56% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cayman Islands

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Central African Republic

  50% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Chad

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Chile

  26% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• China

  18% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Colombia

  69% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Comoros

  4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Congo, Democratic Republic of the

  98% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Congo, Republic of the

  36% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cook Islands

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Costa Rica

  64% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cote d'Ivoire

  40% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Croatia

  40% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cuba

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Cyprus

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Czechia

  5% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Denmark

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Djibouti

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Dominica

  25% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Dominican Republic

  16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Ecuador

  54% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Egypt

  6% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• El Salvador

  23% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Equatorial Guinea

  38% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Eritrea

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Estonia

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Eswatini

  20% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Ethiopia

  86% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• European Union

  11% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)

• Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Faroe Islands

  31% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Fiji

  38% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Finland

  20% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• France

  15% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• French Polynesia

  19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Gabon

  49% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Gambia, The

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Georgia

  65% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Germany

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Ghana

  42% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Gibraltar

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Greece

  14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Greenland

  49% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Grenada

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Guam

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Guatemala

  31% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Guinea

  67% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Guinea-Bissau

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Guyana

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Haiti

  18% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Honduras

  25% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Hong Kong

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Hungary

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Iceland

  71% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• India

  12% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Indonesia

  9% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Iran

  15% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Iraq

  9% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Ireland

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Israel

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Italy

  14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Jamaica

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Japan

  8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Jordan

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kazakhstan

  14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kenya

  34% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kiribati

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Korea, North

  55% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Korea, South

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kosovo

  3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kuwait

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Kyrgyzstan

  76% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Laos

  72% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Latvia

  53% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Lebanon

  11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Lesotho

  100% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Liberia

  43% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Libya

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Lithuania

  4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Luxembourg

  8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Macau

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Madagascar

  24% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Malawi

  93% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Malaysia

  18% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Maldives

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mali

  31% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Malta

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Marshall Islands

  19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mauritania

  16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mauritius

  7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mexico

  17% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Micronesia, Federated States of

  1% of total installed capacity (2013 est.)

• Moldova

  12% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mongolia

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Montenegro

  69% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Montserrat

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Morocco

  16% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Mozambique

  83% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Namibia

  64% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Nauru

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Nepal

  92% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Netherlands

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• New Caledonia

  8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• New Zealand

  58% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Nicaragua

  9% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Niger

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Nigeria

  19% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Niue

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• North Macedonia

  37% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Norway

  93% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Oman

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Pakistan

  27% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Panama

  51% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Papua New Guinea

  30% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Paraguay

  99% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Peru

  35% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Philippines

  17% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Poland

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Portugal

  25% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Puerto Rico

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Qatar

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Romania

  29% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Russia

  21% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Rwanda

  51% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saint Kitts and Nevis

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saint Lucia

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saint Pierre and Miquelon

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

  13% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Samoa

  23% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Sao Tome and Principe

  11% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Saudi Arabia

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Senegal

  7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Serbia

  35% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Seychelles

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Sierra Leone

  51% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Singapore

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Slovakia

  24% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Slovenia

  34% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Solomon Islands

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Somalia

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• South Africa

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• South Sudan

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Spain

  14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Sri Lanka

  42% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Sudan

  51% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Suriname

  38% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Sweden

  42% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Switzerland

  67% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Syria

  17% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Taiwan

  4% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Tajikistan

  94% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Tanzania

  40% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Thailand

  8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Timor-Leste

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Togo

  29% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Tonga

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Trinidad and Tobago

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Tunisia

  1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Turkey

  33% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Turkmenistan

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Turks and Caicos Islands

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Tuvalu

  0% of total installed capacity (2014)

• Uganda

  68% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Ukraine

  8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• United Arab Emirates

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• United Kingdom

  2% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• United States

  7% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Uruguay

  29% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Uzbekistan

  14% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Vanuatu

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Venezuela

  49% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Vietnam

  43% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Virgin Islands

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• West Bank

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• World

  18% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)

• Yemen

  0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Zambia

  93% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)

• Zimbabwe

  37% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)