Wind · % of the electricity mix · 1985–2024 · OWID (Energy Institute + Ember) · ~109 countries
Wind's share of each country's electricity production, as a percentage — annual data from 1985 to 2024.
Our World in Data (Energy Institute + Ember), wind_share_elec column — about 109 countries show a measurable wind share.
Time slider. Wind's rise is recent and steep on most curves: replaying years before 2000 shows a nearly uniformly grey map.
Denmark, a wind pioneer since the 1970s, draws 58% of its electricity from it — the world's top spot, well ahead of Lithuania (46%) and Uruguay (39%), whose ranking owes more to a deliberate policy push in the 2010s than to especially favourable winds.