Electricity Generation from Wind Power
WorldEconomicTotal annual production of electricity from wind power
U.S. Energy Information AdministrationMap showing electricity generation from wind power worldwide. The highest generation is in the U S A, Russia, and Germany (dark blue), the lowest is in many in Africa (Niger, Sudan) and parts of Southeast Asia (Iran, Mongolia) (light blue).
Class | Rank | Billion kilowatt hours (kWh) | Specialty crop or livestock farming | Mixed farming | Commercial wheat and other small grain farming | Dairy farming | General farming | Livestock ranching | Irrigated agriculture | Mediterranean agriculture (with irrigation) | Nonfarming | Cobalt | No data | Arid and low water use | Low (<10%) | Low-medium (10-20%) | Medium-high (20-40%) | High (40-80%) | Extremely high (>80%) | Commercial gardening | Dairy | Grain | Intensive subsistence, wet rice not dominant | Little or no agriculture | Livestock Ranching | Mediterranean | Mixed crop and livestock | Plantation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43.3% | 21.9% | 22.8% | 19.7% | 16.2% | 48.0% | 3.25% | 42.1% | 2.53% | 10.208333333333334 | 0.654% | 3.65% | 47.2% | 4.86% | 6.22% | 9.97% | 14.9% | 5.08% | 11.3% | 13.0% | 1.03% | 22.1% | 20.9% | 34.7% | 36.3% | 10.6% | ||||