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Atlas (Beta)Electricity from Wind Power
WorldEconomicTotal annual production of electricity from wind power as a percentage of total electricity production, by country
Global distribution of electricity from wind power. Dark blue indicates the highest, 49 percent and 29 percent, in Denmark and Ireland. Light blue shows the lowest, 0 to 9 percent, in many countries across Africa, Asia, and South America.
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Class | Rank | Percent of electricity generation | Class | Rank | People | Class | Rank | Billion Cubic Feet | Class | Rank | Metric tons | Extent of U.S., 1803 | Louisiana Purchase, 1803 | West Florida, 1810–1813 | British Cession, 1818 | East Florida, 1819 | Northern Maine, 1842 | Texas Annexation, 1845 | Oregon Country, 1846 | Mexican Cession, 1848 | Gadsden Purchase, 1853 | Alaska, 1867 | Hawaii, 1898 | Oil Slicks (1990s) | Boreal forests/taiga | Deserts and xeric shrublands | Flooded grasslands and savannas | Mangroves | Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub | Montane grasslands and shrublands | Rock and ice | Tundra | Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests | Temperate coniferous forests | Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands | Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests | Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands | Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests | Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests | |
| 3.94% | 7.43% | 100% | 63.1% | 21.0% | 4.15% | 41.7% | 93.1% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.2% | 3.27% | 4.97% | 9.44% | 12.9% | 43.9% | 40.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 60.4% | 7.22% | 5.20% | 2.81% | 40.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.59% | 2.53% | 23.5% | 1.31% | 22.5% | 4.06% | 28.6% | 6.61% | 12.9% | 15.0% | 15.4% | 14.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 53.6% | 37.2% | 28.5% | 8.24% | 2.02% | 6.81% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8.49% | 58.4% | 48.6% | 9.84% | 33.0% | 56.8% | 9.77% | 30.1% | 9.84% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8.84% | 1.87% | 2.31% | 18.4% | 11.4% | 2.67% | 13.1% | 48.0% | 30.2% | 26.1% | 5.47% | 49.3% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5.14% | 100% | 64.0% | 81.6% | 18.4% | 100% | 35.5% | 18.8% | 87.1% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.5% | 21.0% | 0.258% | 1.34% | 1.22% | 0.145% | 8.78% | 7.71% | 12.8% | 0.689% | 23.8% | 0.126% | 2.51% | 28.5% | 18.2% | 1.13% | 1.00% | 3.15% | 29.7% | 11.0% | 9.56% | 12.6% | 22.5% | 19.0% | 13.5% | ||||||||||||||||
| 35.9% | 10.5% | 5.61% | 1.60% | 3.77% | 4.09% | 1.63% | 31.0% | 36.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.19% | 2.21% | 1.32% | 1.73% | 2.47% | 15.8% | 83.7% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.5% | 82.0% | 6.93% | 20.0% | 6.94% | 26.5% | 6.01% | 9.99% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2.42% | 34.7% | 6.20% | 2.51% | 8.09% | 14.4% | 60.5% | 14.1% | 28.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||