Share of primary energy from nuclear in Netherlands
Netherlands: Share of primary energy from nuclear was 1.4% in 2025. ▲ Rising
Latest (2025)
1.4%
Change on year
up 12.0%
World rank
30th
of 216 countries
All-time high
1.5%
in 1982
All-time low
0.0%
in 1965
Years of data
61
1965–2025
Share of primary energy from nuclear in Netherlands, 1965–2025
Source: Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017); U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in %.
Analysis
Netherlands recorded 1.4% for share of primary energy from nuclear in 2025.
The figure is up 12.0% on the previous year and up 13.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, share of primary energy from nuclear in Netherlands peaked at 1.5% in 1982 and was at its lowest, 0.0%, in 1965.
Netherlands ranks 30th of 216 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 61 years of available data.
Share of primary energy from nuclear in Netherlands, year by year
| Year | % | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 0.0% | — |
| 1966 | 0.0% | — |
| 1967 | 0.0% | — |
| 1968 | 0.0% | — |
| 1969 | 0.2% | +908.7% |
| 1970 | 0.2% | +3.5% |
| 1971 | 0.2% | +4.4% |
| 1972 | 0.1% | -30.7% |
| 1973 | 0.4% | +219.4% |
| 1974 | 1.2% | +211.4% |
| 1975 | 1.2% | +0.9% |
| 1976 | 1.3% | +6.4% |
| 1977 | 1.3% | -2.4% |
| 1978 | 1.4% | +7.3% |
| 1979 | 1.1% | -16.8% |
| 1980 | 1.5% | +28.2% |
| 1981 | 1.3% | -8.1% |
| 1982 | 1.5% | +15.2% |
| 1983 | 1.4% | -8.3% |
| 1984 | 1.4% | -0.4% |
| 1985 | 1.4% | +1.8% |
| 1986 | 1.5% | +3.0% |
| 1987 | 1.2% | -17.3% |
| 1988 | 1.3% | +3.0% |
| 1989 | 1.4% | +8.9% |
| 1990 | 1.1% | -16.7% |
| 1991 | 1.0% | -8.6% |
| 1992 | 1.2% | +14.6% |
| 1993 | 1.2% | +2.7% |
| 1994 | 1.2% | +0.1% |
| 1995 | 1.2% | -1.1% |
| 1996 | 1.2% | -1.9% |
| 1997 | 0.7% | -41.0% |
| 1998 | 1.1% | +57.4% |
| 1999 | 1.1% | +1.5% |
| 2000 | 1.1% | +1.1% |
| 2001 | 1.1% | -2.0% |
| 2002 | 1.1% | -2.3% |
| 2003 | 1.1% | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 1.0% | -7.2% |
| 2005 | 1.1% | +4.3% |
| 2006 | 0.9% | -12.6% |
| 2007 | 1.1% | +20.2% |
| 2008 | 1.1% | +0.4% |
| 2009 | 1.2% | +4.2% |
| 2010 | 1.0% | -11.4% |
| 2011 | 1.1% | +9.7% |
| 2012 | 1.1% | -3.8% |
| 2013 | 0.8% | -23.7% |
| 2014 | 1.2% | +48.1% |
| 2015 | 1.2% | -1.0% |
| 2016 | 1.2% | -4.4% |
| 2017 | 1.0% | -14.3% |
| 2018 | 1.1% | +6.2% |
| 2019 | 1.2% | +12.2% |
| 2020 | 1.3% | +9.4% |
| 2021 | 1.2% | -8.0% |
| 2022 | 1.4% | +18.3% |
| 2023 | 1.4% | -0.9% |
| 2024 | 1.2% | -11.9% |
| 2025 | 1.4% | +12.0% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Share of primary energy from nuclear in Netherlands changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | +908.7% | 0.0% | 0.2% |
| 1973 | +219.4% | 0.1% | 0.4% |
| 1974 | +211.4% | 0.4% | 1.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 5 |
| 1970s | 0.8% | 0.1% | 1.4% | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.4% | 1.2% | 1.5% | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.1% | 0.7% | 1.2% | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1.2% | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.1% | 0.8% | 1.2% | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1.4% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Netherlands
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- 31 Taiwan 0.8% compare
- 32 Iran 0.4% compare
- 33 Afghanistan 0.0%
- 33 Albania 0.0%
- 33 Algeria 0.0%
- 33 American Samoa 0.0%
- 33 Angola 0.0%
- 33 Antarctica 0.0%
- 33 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0%
- 33 Aruba 0.0%
- 33 Australia 0.0%
- 33 Austria 0.0%
- 33 Azerbaijan 0.0%
- 33 Bahamas 0.0%
- 33 Bahrain 0.0%
- 33 Bangladesh 0.0%
- 33 Barbados 0.0%
- 33 Belize 0.0%
- 33 Benin 0.0%
- 33 Bermuda 0.0%
- 33 Bhutan 0.0%
- 33 Bolivia 0.0%
- 33 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0%
- 33 Botswana 0.0%
- 33 British Virgin Islands 0.0%
- 33 Brunei 0.0%
- 33 Burkina Faso 0.0%
- 33 Burundi 0.0%
- 33 Cambodia 0.0%
- 33 Cameroon 0.0%
- 33 Cape Verde 0.0%
- 33 Cayman Islands 0.0%
- 33 Central African Republic 0.0%
- 33 Chad 0.0%
- 33 Chile 0.0%
- 33 Colombia 0.0%
- 33 Comoros 0.0%
- 33 Congo 0.0%
- 33 Cook Islands 0.0%
- 33 Costa Rica 0.0%
- 33 Cote d'Ivoire 0.0%
- 33 Croatia 0.0%
- 33 Cuba 0.0%
- 33 Cyprus 0.0%
- 33 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.0%
- 33 Denmark 0.0%
- 33 Djibouti 0.0%
- 33 Dominica 0.0%
- 33 Dominican Republic 0.0%
- 33 East Timor 0.0%
- 33 Ecuador 0.0%
- 33 Egypt 0.0%
- 33 El Salvador 0.0%
- 33 Equatorial Guinea 0.0%
- 33 Eritrea 0.0%
- 33 Estonia 0.0%
- 33 Eswatini 0.0%
- 33 Ethiopia 0.0%
- 33 Falkland Islands 0.0%
- 33 Faroe Islands 0.0%
- 33 Fiji 0.0%
- 33 French Guiana 0.0%
- 33 French Polynesia 0.0%
- 33 Gabon 0.0%
- 33 Gambia 0.0%
- 33 Georgia 0.0%
- 33 Germany 0.0% compare
- 33 Ghana 0.0%
- 33 Greece 0.0%
- 33 Greenland 0.0%
- 33 Grenada 0.0%
- 33 Guadeloupe 0.0%
- 33 Guam 0.0%
- 33 Guatemala 0.0%
- 33 Guinea 0.0%
- 33 Guinea-Bissau 0.0%
- 33 Guyana 0.0%
- 33 Haiti 0.0%
- 33 Honduras 0.0%
- 33 Hong Kong 0.0%
- 33 Iceland 0.0%
- 33 Indonesia 0.0%
- 33 Iraq 0.0%
- 33 Ireland 0.0%
- 33 Israel 0.0%
- 33 Italy 0.0% compare
- 33 Jamaica 0.0%
- 33 Jordan 0.0%
- 33 Kazakhstan 0.0% compare
- 33 Kenya 0.0%
- 33 Kiribati 0.0%
- 33 Kuwait 0.0%
- 33 Kyrgyzstan 0.0%
- 33 Laos 0.0%
- 33 Latvia 0.0%
- 33 Lebanon 0.0%
- 33 Lesotho 0.0%
- 33 Liberia 0.0%
- 33 Libya 0.0%
- 33 Lithuania 0.0% compare
- 33 Luxembourg 0.0%
- 33 Macao 0.0%
- 33 Madagascar 0.0%
- 33 Malawi 0.0%
- 33 Malaysia 0.0%
- 33 Maldives 0.0%
- 33 Mali 0.0%
- 33 Malta 0.0%
- 33 Martinique 0.0%
- 33 Mauritania 0.0%
- 33 Mauritius 0.0%
- 33 Micronesia (country) 0.0%
- 33 Moldova 0.0%
- 33 Mongolia 0.0%
- 33 Montenegro 0.0%
- 33 Montserrat 0.0%
- 33 Morocco 0.0%
- 33 Mozambique 0.0%
- 33 Myanmar 0.0%
- 33 Namibia 0.0%
- 33 Nauru 0.0%
- 33 Nepal 0.0%
- 33 Netherlands Antilles 0.0%
- 33 New Caledonia 0.0%
- 33 New Zealand 0.0%
- 33 Nicaragua 0.0%
- 33 Niger 0.0%
- 33 Nigeria 0.0%
- 33 Niue 0.0%
- 33 North Korea 0.0%
- 33 North Macedonia 0.0%
- 33 Norway 0.0%
- 33 Oman 0.0%
- 33 Palestine 0.0%
- 33 Panama 0.0%
- 33 Papua New Guinea 0.0%
- 33 Paraguay 0.0%
- 33 Peru 0.0%
- 33 Philippines 0.0%
- 33 Poland 0.0%
- 33 Portugal 0.0%
- 33 Puerto Rico 0.0%
- 33 Qatar 0.0%
- 33 Reunion 0.0%
- 33 Rwanda 0.0%
- 33 Saint Helena 0.0%
- 33 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0%
- 33 Saint Lucia 0.0%
- 33 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.0%
- 33 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0%
- 33 Samoa 0.0%
- 33 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0%
- 33 Saudi Arabia 0.0%
- 33 Senegal 0.0%
- 33 Serbia 0.0%
- 33 Seychelles 0.0%
- 33 Sierra Leone 0.0%
- 33 Singapore 0.0%
- 33 Solomon Islands 0.0%
- 33 Somalia 0.0%
- 33 South Sudan 0.0%
- 33 Sri Lanka 0.0%
- 33 Sudan 0.0%
- 33 Suriname 0.0%
- 33 Syria 0.0%
- 33 Tajikistan 0.0%
- 33 Tanzania 0.0%
- 33 Thailand 0.0%
- 33 Togo 0.0%
- 33 Tonga 0.0%
- 33 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0%
- 33 Tunisia 0.0%
- 33 Turkey 0.0%
- 33 Turkmenistan 0.0%
- 33 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0%
- 33 Uganda 0.0%
- 33 United States Virgin Islands 0.0%
- 33 Uruguay 0.0%
- 33 Uzbekistan 0.0%
- 33 Vanuatu 0.0%
- 33 Venezuela 0.0%
- 33 Vietnam 0.0%
- 33 Western Sahara 0.0%
- 33 Yemen 0.0%
- 33 Zambia 0.0%
- 33 Zimbabwe 0.0%
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- Coal consumption, per unit of GDP 0 terawatt-hours per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Primary energy use, per unit of GDP 0 terawatt-hours per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Primary energy use, per capita 0 terawatt-hours per person (2025)
- Coal production, per capita 0 terawatt-hours per person (2024)
- Coal production, per unit of GDP 0 terawatt-hours per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Fossil fuel consumption by fuel, per capita 0 terawatt-hours per person (2025)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is share of primary energy from nuclear in Netherlands?
- Share of primary energy from nuclear in Netherlands was 1.4% in 2025, according to Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017); U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest share of primary energy from nuclear recorded in Netherlands?
- The highest recorded value was 1.5% in 1982.
- What is the lowest share of primary energy from nuclear recorded in Netherlands?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0% in 1965.
- How does Netherlands rank for share of primary energy from nuclear?
- Netherlands ranks 30th out of 216 countries with data for 2025.
- Is share of primary energy from nuclear rising or falling in Netherlands?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Netherlands data come from?
- The figures come from Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017); U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Share of primary energy from nuclear. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Measured as a percentage of total energy supply.