Percentage of the world's electricity generated from renewable sources (hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy, geothermal, marine). A core welfare indicator because higher clean-power shares displace fossil generation, cutting air-pollution and climate harm while improving energy resilience.
How to read it
Higher is better — readings above the norm count as better.
Measured value over time. The line runs green while the indicator is better than its dashed norm and red when it’s worse.
Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.
New renewable capacity directly raises the renewable share of global electricity generation, with roughly a year lag from commissioning to full-year output.
High fossil-fuel subsidies lower the relative cost of fossil generation, dampening the competitive displacement that would otherwise raise the renewable share.
Binding climate policy — carbon pricing, clean-energy investment and coal phase-outs — accelerates renewable deployment, raising the renewable share of electricity.
Percentage of the world's electricity generated from renewable sources (hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy, geothermal, marine). A core welfare indicator because higher clean-power shares displace fossil generation, cutting air-pollution and climate harm while improving energy resilience.
This indicator’s slice of Factrail’s verified causal web — the people, facts, drivers and welfare indicators it connects to. Select any node to trace a path.
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