Spain vs Sweden: Electricity generation from low-carbon sources

Spain
214.88 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Sweden
168.63 terawatt-hours
in 2025
Spain rank
11th
Sweden rank
13th

Electricity generation from low-carbon sources over time

  • Spain
  • Sweden
050100150200196519952025

How they compare

Spain currently reports 214.88 terawatt-hours against 168.63 terawatt-hours in Sweden, a difference of 46.25 terawatt-hours.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.3 times Sweden's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 61 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Sweden ahead.

Spain ranks 11th and Sweden ranks 13th of 209 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Electricity generation from low-carbon sources
Unit
terawatt-hours
Source
Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
216 places, 7,081 data points, 1920–2025
Last refreshed

Measured in terawatt-hours. Low-carbon sources correspond to renewables and nuclear power, that produce significantly less greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuels. Renewables include solar, wind, hydropower, bioenergy, geothermal, wave, and tidal.