{"id":356495,"date":"2025-08-19T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356495\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:53:11","slug":"key-figures-on-the-eu-in-the-world-renewables-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356495\/","title":{"rendered":"Key figures on the EU in the world \u2013 renewables &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/product?code=KS-01-25-002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Key figures on the EU in the world<\/a> combines Eurostat data with international sources to provide a clear picture of the EU\u2019s position in the global arena. Today, we highlight the EU\u2019s share of renewables in its total energy supply, compared to other countries in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2022, renewables accounted for 18.9% of the EU\u2019s total energy supply; this share exceeded the global average of 13.9% (2021 data).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Among the 14 non-EU countries that accounted for at least 1.0% of the world\u2019s total energy supply, only Brazil (46.1%) had more than a quarter of its supply coming from renewables. At the other end of the ranking, renewables accounted for 0.1% of Saudi Arabia\u2019s total energy supply.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a37034be-ad27-a7ce-f8c9-0984b0373155\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Renewables as share of total energy supply, 2022. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a37034be-ad27-a7ce-f8c9-0984b0373155\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source datasets: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/NRG_BAL_S__custom_3108462\/bookmark\/table?lang=en&amp;bookmarkId=57b1a6ac-004f-4976-a7b7-f9108e844993&amp;c=1658667534279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nrg_bal_s<\/a> and the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/unstats.un.org\/unsd\/energystats\/pubs\/balance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/product?code=KS-01-25-002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Key figures on the EU in the world<\/a> publication allows you to compare the EU\u2019s performance globally across a wide range of topics. For a more detailed view of the EU\u2019s performance in various fields, explore other <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/en\/web\/main\/publications\/key-figures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Key figures<\/a> publications as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key figures on the EU in the world combines Eurostat data with international sources to provide a clear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[115370,108624,2000,299,5187,115371,108623,115368],"class_list":{"0":"post-356495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-education-corner","9":"tag-environment-and-energy","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-general-and-regional-statistics","14":"tag-nrg","15":"tag-website-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115054824932630936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}