Bahamas, The: Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (% of total)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2021, Bahamas, The's electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (% of total) rose 0.17 percentage points on 2020 (from 0.31% to 0.48%).

Across the 20 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2020), the average change was +0.02 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.02 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 7.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.17 percentage points in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.01 percentage points in 2018. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2012 to 2021 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.03 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 82% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

A straight-line projection, tested first

Extending that straight line gives about 0.47% for 2024. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2019 to 2021 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.06%, against 0.13% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.

See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.

How it compares

In 2021, Bahamas, The had the 173rd highest value of the 208 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Bahamas, The in the 2021 ranking

• Paraguay — 169th of 208: 0.67%
• French Polynesia — 170th of 208: 0.62%
• Russian Federation — 171st of 208: 0.49%
• Albania — 173rd of 208: 0.47%
• Syrian Arab Republic — 174th of 208: 0.37%
• South Sudan — 175th of 208: 0.35%

What this measures

The share of electricity production from renewable sources of total electricity production. Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric, includes geothermal, solar, tides, wind, biomass, and biofuels.

Limitations: IEA occasionally revises its time series to reflect political changes. For example, the IEA has constructed historical energy statistics for countries of the former Soviet Union. In addition, energy statistics for other countries have undergone continuous changes in coverage or methodology in recent years as more detailed energy accounts have become available. Breaks in series are therefore unavoidable.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average using total electricity production as weights.

All 22 values

Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (% of total) in nearby economies

• Antigua and Barbuda — 5.66% (2021)
• Argentina — 9.06% (2021)
• Aruba — 14.8% (2021)
• Barbados — 7.33% (2021)
• Belize — 59.46% (2021)
• Bolivia — 8.51% (2021)
• Brazil — 22.08% (2021)
• British Virgin Islands

More environment data for Bahamas, The

• Rural population — 75,243 (2025)
• Rural population (% of total population) — 18.67% (2025)
• Urban population — 327,790 (2025)
• Urban population (% of total population) — 81.33% (2025)
• Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 1 (2024)
• Capture fisheries production (metric tons) — 8,880 (2024)
• Total fisheries production (metric tons) — 8,881 (2024)
• Rural population growth (annual %) — 0.4% (2025)
• Urban population growth (annual %) — 0.44% (2025)
• Agricultural land (sq. km) — 130 (2024)

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Questions people ask

What is Bahamas, The's electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric (% of total)?

0.48% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator EG.ELC.RNWX.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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