Primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables in Germany
Germany: Primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables was 0.0% in 2025. ◆ Volatile
Latest (2025)
0.0%
World rank
33rd
of 216 countries
All-time high
13.1%
in 1999
All-time low
0.0%
in 2024
Years of data
61
1965–2025
Primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables in Germany, 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
In 2025, primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables in Germany stood at 0.0%. That is the lowest value across all 61 years on record.
That represents a change of down 100.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables in Germany peaked at 13.1% in 1999 and was at its lowest, 0.0%, in 2024.
Germany ranks 33rd of 216 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables in Germany, year by year
| Year | % | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 0.0% | — |
| 1966 | 0.0% | +126.1% |
| 1967 | 0.1% | +363.2% |
| 1968 | 0.2% | +34.9% |
| 1969 | 0.4% | +158.5% |
| 1970 | 0.6% | +24.8% |
| 1971 | 0.5% | -5.4% |
| 1972 | 0.8% | +48.0% |
| 1973 | 0.9% | +20.3% |
| 1974 | 1.1% | +21.7% |
| 1975 | 2.0% | +73.7% |
| 1976 | 2.2% | +14.4% |
| 1977 | 3.1% | +40.2% |
| 1978 | 3.2% | +2.6% |
| 1979 | 3.6% | +12.3% |
| 1980 | 4.0% | +10.4% |
| 1981 | 4.9% | +21.7% |
| 1982 | 5.7% | +17.7% |
| 1983 | 5.9% | +3.3% |
| 1984 | 7.6% | +28.7% |
| 1985 | 9.8% | +28.8% |
| 1986 | 9.3% | -5.0% |
| 1987 | 10.0% | +7.7% |
| 1988 | 11.1% | +10.2% |
| 1989 | 11.5% | +4.1% |
| 1990 | 11.0% | -4.2% |
| 1991 | 10.9% | -1.0% |
| 1992 | 12.0% | +10.0% |
| 1993 | 11.7% | -2.8% |
| 1994 | 11.6% | -0.5% |
| 1995 | 11.8% | +1.5% |
| 1996 | 12.0% | +1.4% |
| 1997 | 12.8% | +6.8% |
| 1998 | 12.2% | -4.2% |
| 1999 | 13.1% | +6.8% |
| 2000 | 13.0% | -0.4% |
| 2001 | 12.9% | -1.0% |
| 2002 | 12.6% | -2.3% |
| 2003 | 12.6% | -0.0% |
| 2004 | 12.8% | +1.6% |
| 2005 | 12.6% | -1.2% |
| 2006 | 12.6% | +0.2% |
| 2007 | 11.2% | -11.8% |
| 2008 | 11.7% | +4.6% |
| 2009 | 11.3% | -3.3% |
| 2010 | 11.3% | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 9.1% | -19.5% |
| 2012 | 8.3% | -8.6% |
| 2013 | 7.9% | -4.8% |
| 2014 | 8.3% | +4.5% |
| 2015 | 7.8% | -6.3% |
| 2016 | 7.0% | -9.3% |
| 2017 | 6.2% | -11.4% |
| 2018 | 6.4% | +2.7% |
| 2019 | 6.5% | +2.2% |
| 2020 | 6.1% | -7.0% |
| 2021 | 6.3% | +3.0% |
| 2022 | 3.3% | -46.6% |
| 2023 | 0.8% | -76.8% |
| 2024 | 0.0% | -100.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0% | — |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables in Germany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | +363.2% | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| 1969 | +158.5% | 0.2% | 0.4% |
| 1966 | +126.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 2024 | -100.0% | 0.8% | 0.0% |
| 2023 | -76.8% | 3.3% | 0.8% |
| 1975 | +73.7% | 1.1% | 2.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 5 |
| 1970s | 1.8% | 0.5% | 3.6% | 10 |
| 1980s | 8.0% | 4.0% | 11.5% | 10 |
| 1990s | 11.9% | 10.9% | 13.1% | 10 |
| 2000s | 12.3% | 11.2% | 13.0% | 10 |
| 2010s | 7.9% | 6.2% | 11.3% | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.7% | 0.0% | 6.3% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Germany
- 30 Netherlands 1.4% compare
- 31 Taiwan 0.8% compare
- 32 Iran 0.4% compare
- 33 Algeria 0.0%
- 33 Australia 0.0%
- 33 Austria 0.0%
- 33 Azerbaijan 0.0%
- 33 Bangladesh 0.0%
- 33 Chile 0.0%
- 33 Colombia 0.0%
- 33 Croatia 0.0%
- 33 Cyprus 0.0%
- 33 Denmark 0.0%
- 33 Ecuador 0.0%
- 33 Egypt 0.0%
- 33 Estonia 0.0%
- 33 Greece 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 Kazakhstan 0.0% compare
- 33 Kuwait 0.0%
- 33 Latvia 0.0%
- 33 Lithuania 0.0% compare
- 33 Luxembourg 0.0%
- 33 Malaysia 0.0%
- 33 Morocco 0.0%
- 33 New Zealand 0.0%
- 33 North Macedonia 0.0%
- 33 Norway 0.0%
- 33 Oman 0.0%
- 33 Peru 0.0%
- 33 Philippines 0.0%
- 33 Poland 0.0%
- 33 Portugal 0.0%
- 33 Qatar 0.0%
- 33 Saudi Arabia 0.0%
- 33 Singapore 0.0%
- 33 Sri Lanka 0.0%
- 33 Thailand 0.0%
- 33 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0%
- 33 Turkey 0.0%
- 33 Turkmenistan 0.0%
- 33 Uzbekistan 0.0%
- 33 Venezuela 0.0%
- 33 Vietnam 0.0%
- 33 Afghanistan 0.0%
- 33 Albania 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 Bahamas 0.0%
- 33 Bahrain 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 Comoros 0.0%
- 33 Congo 0.0%
- 33 Cook Islands 0.0%
- 33 Costa Rica 0.0%
- 33 Cote d'Ivoire 0.0%
- 33 Cuba 0.0%
- 33 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.0%
- 33 Djibouti 0.0%
- 33 Dominica 0.0%
- 33 Dominican Republic 0.0%
- 33 East Timor 0.0%
- 33 El Salvador 0.0%
- 33 Equatorial Guinea 0.0%
- 33 Eritrea 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 Ghana 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 Jamaica 0.0%
- 33 Jordan 0.0%
- 33 Kenya 0.0%
- 33 Kiribati 0.0%
- 33 Kyrgyzstan 0.0%
- 33 Laos 0.0%
- 33 Lebanon 0.0%
- 33 Lesotho 0.0%
- 33 Liberia 0.0%
- 33 Libya 0.0%
- 33 Macao 0.0%
- 33 Madagascar 0.0%
- 33 Malawi 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 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 Nicaragua 0.0%
- 33 Niger 0.0%
- 33 Nigeria 0.0%
- 33 Niue 0.0%
- 33 North Korea 0.0%
- 33 Palestine 0.0%
- 33 Panama 0.0%
- 33 Papua New Guinea 0.0%
- 33 Paraguay 0.0%
- 33 Puerto Rico 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 Senegal 0.0%
- 33 Serbia 0.0%
- 33 Seychelles 0.0%
- 33 Sierra Leone 0.0%
- 33 Solomon Islands 0.0%
- 33 Somalia 0.0%
- 33 South Sudan 0.0%
- 33 Sudan 0.0%
- 33 Suriname 0.0%
- 33 Syria 0.0%
- 33 Tajikistan 0.0%
- 33 Tanzania 0.0%
- 33 Togo 0.0%
- 33 Tonga 0.0%
- 33 Tunisia 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 Vanuatu 0.0%
- 33 Western Sahara 0.0%
- 33 Yemen 0.0%
- 33 Zambia 0.0%
- 33 Zimbabwe 0.0%
More energy & mining data for Germany
- Fossil fuel consumption by fuel, per unit of GDP 0 terawatt-hours per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Primary energy use, annual growth rate -0.1985 % change on previous year (2025)
- Coal consumption, per capita 0 terawatt-hours per person (2025)
- 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 (2025)
- Coal production, per unit of GDP 0 terawatt-hours per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Fossil fuel consumption by fuel, per capita 0 terawatt-hours per person (2025)
- Fuel imports 8.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables in Germany?
- Primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables in Germany was 0.0% 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 primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables recorded in Germany?
- The highest recorded value was 13.1% in 1999.
- What is the lowest primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables recorded in Germany?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0% in 2024.
- How does Germany rank for primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables?
- Germany ranks 33rd out of 216 countries with data for 2025.
- Is primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables rising or falling in Germany?
- Over the last ten years it is down 100.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Germany 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 Primary energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Measured as a percentage of total energy supply.