Rwanda vs Sweden: Share of electricity generation from hydropower

Rwanda
46.0%
in 2024
Sweden
40.0%
in 2025
Rwanda rank
50th
Sweden rank
51st

Share of electricity generation from hydropower over time

  • Rwanda
  • Sweden
0204060198520052025

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 46.0% against 40.0% in Sweden, a difference of 6.0%.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.2 times Sweden's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Rwanda ahead.

Rwanda ranks 50th and Sweden ranks 51st of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Share of electricity generation from hydropower
Unit
%
Source
Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
215 places, 6,588 data points, 1920–2025
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Measured as a percentage of total electricity produced in the country or region.