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The worldwide total cumulative installed electricity generation capacity from wind power has increased rapidly since the start of the third millennium, and as of the end of 2022, it amounts to almost 900 GW. Since 2010, more than half of all new wind power was added outside the traditional markets of Europe and North America, mainly driven by the continuing boom in China and India. China alone had over 40% of the world's capacity by 2022.

Wind power is used on a commercial basis in more than half of all the countries of the world. Denmark produced 55% of its electricity from wind in 2022, a larger share than any other country. Latvia's wind capacity grew by 75%, the largest percent increase in 2022.

In November 2018, wind power generation in Scotland was higher than the country's electricity consumption during the month. Wind power's share of worldwide electricity usage in 2022 was 7.3%, up from 8.9% from the prior year. In Europe, wind was 11.2% of generation in 2022. In 2018, upcoming wind power markets rose from 8% to 10% across the Middle East, Latin America, South East Asia, and Africa.

Generation by country

Number of countries with wind
capacities in the gigawatt-scale

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The following table lists these data for each country:

• total generation from wind in terawatt-hours,
• percent of that country's generation that was wind,
• total wind capacity in gigawatts,
• percent growth in wind capacity, and
• the wind capacity factor for that year.

Data are sourced from Ember and refer to the year 2023 unless otherwise specified. The table only includes countries with more than 0.1 TWh of generation.

Country	Gen (TWh)	% gen.	Cap. (GW)	% cap. growth	Cap. fac.
World	2310.61	7.8	1017.20	12.9	26%
China	885.87	9.4	441.89	20.7	23%
United States	425.23	10.0	148.02	4.5	33%
Germany	137.32	27.1	69.46	5.0	23%
Brazil	95.51	13.5	29.14	20.6	37%
United Kingdom	82.31	28.8	30.22	5.1	31%
India	82.11	4.2	44.74	6.7	21%
Spain	64.13	23.8	31.03	3.1	24%
France	48.61	9.5	22.20	6.7	25%
Canada	38.94	6.2	16.99	11.3	26%
Sweden	34.72	20.9	16.25	13.8	24%
Turkey	33.88	10.6	11.70	2.6	33%
Australia	31.87	11.7	11.33	7.3	32%
Netherlands	29.27	24.3	10.75	22.9	31%
Italy	23.51	9.0	12.31	4.1	22%
Poland	23.06	13.7	9.31	14.2	28%
Mexico	21.65	6.1	7.32	0.0	34%
Denmark	19.41	57.7	7.48	5.6	30%
Belgium	15.27	18.5	5.50	3.8	32%
Norway	14.96	9.7	5.06	0.0	34%
Finland	14.63	18.3	6.96	22.5	24%
Argentina	14.48	9.9	3.71	12.1	45%
Portugal	13.23	29.5	5.62	1.4	27%
Ireland	11.64	37.1	4.81	5.9	28%
South Africa	11.58	5.0	3.44	8.9	38%
Vietnam	11.37	4.1	5.89	16.2	22%
Greece	10.91	22.1	5.22	11.1	24%
Japan	10.01	1.0	5.23	19.7	22%
Chile	9.88	11.8	4.51	17.8	25%
Austria	8.05	12.0	3.98	11.2	23%
Romania	7.52	13.4	3.09	2.3	28%
Morocco	6.57	15.3	1.86	19.2	40%
Taiwan	6.20	2.2	2.67	69.0	27%
Egypt	5.74	2.6	1.89	15.2	35%
Russia	4.75	0.4	2.52	13.5	22%
Uruguay	4.74	35.9	1.52	0.0	36%
Kazakhstan	3.65	3.2	1.44	29.7	29%
Thailand	3.61	1.9	1.55	0.0	27%
New Zealand	3.47	7.8	1.06	7.1	37%
South Korea	3.39	0.6	2.17	13.6	18%
Pakistan	2.90	1.8	1.85	0.0	18%
Lithuania	2.53	45.5	1.29	35.8	22%
Croatia	2.52	14.9	1.14	15.2	25%
Peru	2.23	3.7	0.71	31.5	36%
Kenya	2.00	16.4	0.44	0.0	52%
Jordan (2022)	1.61	7.4	0.61	-3.2	30%
Bulgaria	1.55	3.9	0.70	0.0	25%
Ukraine (2022)	1.55	1.4	1.76	0.0	10%
Philippines	1.51	1.3	0.44	0.0	39%
Costa Rica	1.47	12.3	0.41	5.1	41%
Saudi Arabia	1.45	0.3	0.40	0.0	41%
Iran	1.33	0.4	0.36	5.9	42%
Dominican Republic (2022)	1.32	6.1	0.42	13.5	36%
Serbia	0.94	2.5	0.51	27.5	21%
Honduras (2022)	0.77	6.4	0.24	0.0	37%
Estonia	0.75	11.6	0.41	28.1	21%
Senegal (2022)	0.74	9.5	0.16	0.0	53%
Czech Republic	0.72	1.0	0.34	0.0	24%
Nicaragua (2022)	0.66	15.4	0.19	0.0	40%
Hungary	0.63	1.8	0.32	0.0	22%
Mongolia	0.62	7.7	0.16	0.0	44%
Ethiopia (2022)	0.59	3.8	0.40	25.0	17%
Panama (2022)	0.53	4.0	0.34	25.9	18%
Luxembourg	0.49	43.0	0.22	29.4	25%
Indonesia	0.48	0.1	0.15	0.0	37%
Bolivia	0.47	3.9	0.14	7.7	38%
Sri Lanka (2022)	0.43	2.5	0.25	0.0	20%
Guatemala (2022)	0.34	2.6	0.11	0.0	35%
Tunisia	0.34	1.6	0.25	0.0	16%
Montenegro	0.33	8.1	0.12	0.0	31%
Jamaica (2022)	0.28	6.1	0.10	0.0	32%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.26	1.5	0.14	0.0	21%
Latvia	0.26	4.2	0.14	75.0	21%
Colombia	0.21	0.2	0.02	0.0	-
Cyprus	0.21	3.9	0.16	0.0	15%
Ecuador	0.20	0.6	0.07	250.0	33%
Belarus (2022)	0.19	0.5	0.12	9.1	18%
Israel (2022)	0.18	0.2	0.14	366.7	15%
Kosovo	0.17	2.7	0.14	100.0	14%
Moldova	0.17	2.9	0.14	16.7	14%
Switzerland	0.17	0.2	0.09	0.0	22%
Mauritania (2022)	0.16	9.4	0.03	0.0	61%
Puerto Rico (2022)	0.16	0.8	0.10	0.0	18%
North Macedonia	0.14	2.0	0.11	57.1	15%
Aruba (2022)	0.14	14.3	0.03	0.0	53%

See also

• Wind power portal

References

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2. "Global Wind Atlas". Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Archived from the original on 18 January 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
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